Wieland Transformation

The blogs have deepened my writing and ideas in many ways throughout this semester. The texts that I wrote about are: Wieland, or the Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “Rosa” by Cynthia Ozick. My writing experiences helped me develop my close reading skills by showing me the importance of noting details, such as tone. My writing has become more sophisticated and I have learned to cite sources properly and make better arguments. Overall, I have learned a lot about writing: it is complex with many different interpretations, has purpose, and is difficult to do.

One of the blogs that was particularly important for developing my knowledge on literature was about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. This blog deepened my understanding of the book because it brought to my attention the importance of observing tone

In Wieland, or the Transformation I saw that someone can be morally responsible for murder without physically responsible. Magic can be very subtle like the root in Douglass’s Narrative. In “Rosa” by Cynthia Ozick the main character’s refusal to accept the death of her daughter shows that mortality is not always straightforward. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of how madness is interpretive. Through the themes of the literature I learned that I should not be so quick to judge others, instead it is important to pay attention to the story. The characters in the stories always started out as seemingly normal people who were put into extreme situations. Therefore, it is conceivable that people in real life could be pushed to the same limits as the characters from the