1.Read Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour, listing several emotions you experienced during the reading. Discuss which parts of the story prompted these emotions and why.
2.Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and discuss the reading based on the literary term Point of View:The narrator of the story is unreliable, and the story is not so much a factual report as it is the account of what is going on around a woman experiencing mental illness from her perspective. How do the narrator’s rational words in the story’s first paragraph contrast with her words in the final paragraph of the story?
3.Read Mark Twain’s “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and discuss how Clemens uses language to distinguish the speaking styles of the storys narrator and Simon Wheeler.
