Depression

In the book The Yellow Wallpaper that is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman a lady is suffering from condition that is most likely depression. Her husband keeps her in a room alone for many days. He does not want everyone to know about her condition so he just isolates her from the rest of society. The book does say that a baby is with a family member so she could be suffering from a depression called postpartum depression. She also could be suffering from psychotic depression because she sees a lady in the wallpaper.

 There are many different types of depression that can affect individuals throughout their lives. The first one is major depression and this is the depression is the most common. Major depression is a disorder that has periods of low mood which cause low self-esteem and not have interest in daily activates. Major depression can also be called clinical depression, major depression, unipolar depression, unipolar disorder or recurrent depression. The second depression is postpartum depression which happens to women after having a baby. Postpartum depression is a type of clinical depression. This depression has symptoms of sadness, fatigue anxiety and change in sleeping and eating patterns. Other type of depression is seasonal affective depression. This depression happens during different seasons like having the winter blues or summer blues. Psychotic major depression is another type of depression. This type is not like most of the other depression because the symptoms and treatment are not like the others. Some of the symptoms of this depression is hallucinations, daydreaming often and intensiveness. I believe the lady in the yellow wallpaper might have had this depression. These are just four different types of depression, there is many more.

we real cool

We real cool is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks. The poem is about little boys skipping school one day. Gwendolyn saw them while she was walking around her town. She wonder what they were thinking about and how they felt about skipping school. If someone did not know anything about poetry they would know that this does rhyme. In the very first stanza, which is the arrangement of certain number in lines, the third and sixth words rhyme. This poem has four stanzas.  This poem also has couplets in it. A Couplet is a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not within a stanza. The poem We Are Cool also has repetition in it. An example of repetition would be that the word we is in every sentence in this poem. I think that this poem is an epitaph because it is a very short poem. This would have a theme of skipping school and how they feel about their decision to not go to school.  The image of this poem We Are Cool is also not going to school and deciding not to go that day. This poem has many examples of terms used in poetry and should be use to show people how a poem could be written.

More about Laura from The Glass Menagerie

. Laura is not a very social person. All she does is stay at home and clean and cares for her glass collection. She keeps to herself pretty much all the time. I think that she is not social because of her legs and the way she walks. She does not want other people the look at her different. Her family looks at her as the person she really is. When Jim is at her house, he asked her what she has been doing since high school and she just said caring for her glass ornaments. Laura portrays that she is very fragile and innocent. I believe that she has her ornaments because they are fragile like she is. I also believe that she is in that state of being fragile because of her leg condition.  When Jim came over and had dinner with her family, she talked to him very softly and scared like because of her thinking she is so fragile but I think that she can overcome this just like Jim said in the play. Laura is actually a very strong woman. A woman that can walk all day outside in cold weather just so she will not upset her mother is strong. I also think that a woman that can deal with having a leg condition all her life and walk around all day is also very strong. While she was going to high school, I'm sure other student made fun of her legs and that take a strong person to just ignore that.