The Atlanta Exposition Address Response

Black people are always told they will never prosper in life during the 1800s. They are never respected by anyone but their own race. In The Atlanta Exposition Address, Washington addresses the white audience about how blacks should be treated and what they only want out of it. The Northern and Southern white leaders supported booker T. Washington. His “Atlanta Compromise” speech was the most important and influential of modern speeches concerning the American Negro in United States history.

First hand, Washington recognizes who his audience is. He notices that he is speaking to a predominately-white audience. Because of this, he is very careful with what words (diction) he uses. “I but convey to you, Mr. President and Directors, the sentiment of masses of my race when I say to that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of the magnificent Exposition.” He uses Negro instead of blacks; he refers to the white men as Presidents and Directors instead of Mr. Washington has been waiting on an opportunity such as this, to him it can be considered an honor. He is speaking for those of the African American race, the voice of the people. He often expressed that black people are patient and they do what their master or owner tell them what to do.

The Yellow Wallpaper Response

Little things in life can drive a person nut, bonkers, and just simply crazy. The Yellow Wallpaper was a story about an unknown narrator and her husband, John, who lived in this colonial mansion, which was used, stated by John, as a place to help her by recuperate from her sickness. Later, she finds something very peculiar in the house or the room she reside in. john, being the type of person he was, did not pay her any attention when she seem to complain or make note of something she did not like. She suffers from a disorder that has symptoms of fatigue and depression. He did not allow her to do anything because she was ill. In fact, she believed work would have sped up her recovery. (Gilman) She later focuses on the house and talk about how beautiful it is and what surrounded it. She becomes very obsessed with the fact that the peculiar wallpaper has a meaning and in the story, she reveals what the wallpaper means and why it has significance.
Gilman expresses her feelings toward her husband. Readers would see him as showing tough love and others would view as arrogant and selfish. “John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.” She explains her husband as being selfish and likes to put down people who feels bad in someway or another. He feels that nothing seems to be wrong with her, but the fact that she could just be crazy. “If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency.” They laugh at the fact something could be actually wrong with her but being the doctor he is, he is not buying one minute of it. “He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. “ Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear," said he, "and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time." He blames her for the reason they live in the house to begin with. It is like giving someone a gift that they always wanted and now they complain about it in return.
Throughout the story, the wallpaper seems to have a symbolic form about it. It is mention through the story as irritating and has outrageous angles. The wallpaper, she discovers, has a deep meaning under the surface. She states that the deeper meaning of the wallpaper grows clearer each day. (Gilman) The confusing pattern, which resembles her chaotic mind, appears as an image of a woman “stooping down and creeping around).” (Gilman) Every story seems to have a symbolic symbol. Later in the story the sunlight and the moonlight become a factor of symbolism. This begins to clear up the meaning of the wallpaper. “By moonlight -- the moon shines in all night when there is a moon -- I wouldn't know it was the same paper.” (Gilman) The moonlight gives the wallpaper a whole lot of meaning verses the sunlight. “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.” (Gilman)The moonlight gives the woman on the paper some meaning to the paper on the exterior as plain. “By daylight, she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still. It is so puzzling. It keeps me quiet by the hour.” (Gilman) The sunlight turns the woman into a quiet mode and makes the wallpaper so fancy that she begins to observe it with no sleep.
In conclusion, the narrator begins pulling off the wallpaper and she frees the woman from the dreadfulness she endured. Along with that, the narrator seems to cure her own self. Being drove completely insane and no one believes you is like crying wolf.