New Pool

The instant my big toe touched a instant shock of warmth ran up my spine. The untouched water had not a single ripple. As I open my eyes there is a wall of bubbles that blocks my view. As the bubbles rise i entered a complete world of silence. Nothing is moving besides me. Weightless, as if I was in space, i float around. The only place that has dead silence. I lay motionless until I can't feel the water anymore. Everything feels natural. the peace inside me never seems to end. Yet it is cut short by the lack of oxygen in water. As i wait till the last second i rise back to the top to get a new gasp of air. I then return back down under. 

Loneliness

 In A Clean, Well-Lighted Place the ending is very different. The old waiter continues to say nada in the lords prayer. Nada means nothing and it represents the emptiness in his life. The old waiter is very much related to the old man. The bar is like a oasis for him. It is one of the few places he can be and not be alone. Even though the old waiter has everything in the world he has no one to love him. He thinks that there is nothing else in life to live for. He tells the young waiter to appreciate his life and be happy that he has a wife to go home to every night. 

Unacceptance

For my Steller project I chose to talk about the unacceptance throughout Paul's Case, The Chrysanthemums and Barn Burning. In all these stories all the main characters feel extremely unaccepted in society and by their families. For the first quote, from Paul's Case, I chose a picture of a man sitting alone on a bench with his head down. This is a great symbol for the quote as Paul feels alone and has given up in life. He realizes that this is the only way he can live and it will never change. Another thing that I like about this photo is that the man is a shadow. It resembles Paul's irrelevance to the world. Even though he has many problems in his life he is still just a face in the crowd. For the next quote I picked the picture of the 'WE CAN DO IT' woman because this is how Elisa is unaccepted. She isn't accepted as a woman in her relationship. They picture represents the person that he doesn't want to known as. When she finally dresses up nice he husband says that she looks "strong." To me this picture also represents what I think she looks like. Then for my final quote I choose the picture of the man running away from the fire. This represents Sarty's unacceptance from his family. They don't accept him because he doesn't want to burn barns. So as a result he runs away to tell the de Spain's before they burn the barn. This picture shows someone running away from a fire, which resembles the end of his unacceptance. He is finally running away from the thing that has been bothering him for so long, fire and his family. 

Paul and Elisa's Runnings

In Paul's Case and The Chrysanthemums both protagonists are trying to run away from social struggle in life. Whether its running away for sex equality or to be accepted from society they both had different approaches towards them. Paul felt unaccepted in society. He felt that no one loved him and he couldn't achieve anything in life. So Paul ran away to live in New York. Paul was successful with the running away in the beginning, but in the end it was a failure. Once he found out his dad was coming to get him he knew he had no way out. Due to this mind set Paul killed himself. The author was trying to say that no matter what Paul did he could never run away from the darkness of society. On the other hand Elisa is trying to run away from order. Every time a situation comes up about men doing something she always thinks she can do it. For example, when the tinker comes to their farm he lives in a wagon all the time. Elisa claims that she could do it but the tinkerer says that is is to though and scary for a lady. Rather than fighting back and attempting to live in a wagon like the tinker she stays and continues on with her chrysanthemums. The narrator is showing that Elisa continues to try to escape the daily life of being a woman but in the end goes right back to her chrysanthemums. 

The Rebellion of John

The whole story the narrator's life is being run by her husband John. She is sick and John doesn't think that she needs medical treatment. He thinks that she just needs rest and can't do any activities. “He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try. I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.” (760) This statement reveals the essential difference in opinion between the narrator and her husband. He believes that her imagination makes her even more sick. She, however, knows that in order to get better she needs to do activities and use her imagination. So to rebel against Johns power she does use her imagination. She starts to write her own journal about the walls and whats going on in her life.