Antonio Hitchcock
Realism

"A story of an Hour"
"She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome."

Here in this part Kate feels remorse for the lost of her love but embraces her life ahead. This is a good expression of what a realist would feel in times of death of a love one. What she saying that it’s hard for her to look or think about her husband on his dying bed but is willing to live her life to the fullest and let this as a stepping stone for her, lost in the past but not forgotten. She is able to let things go even when they mean so much to her or even in death she will overcome the matter and move on.

She was sad that her husband died but gald that he was out of her life. This remines me how cruel women are, "oh sure they'll cry at you funeral, but party and luagh soon as night come". Women are cruel creatures in this world, instead of leaving you they'll put up with you til the bitter end, then cash your check in the moring. Louise was indeed sad, but with sadness comes greater happness.

A social issue that Chopin wants to solve she already did when she made herself stronger to move on in life. The issue that why can’t women live on a happy life even when they lose something as lovable and important as their husband. There are times in people lives where we would have to make a decision where a situation will make us or break us. Your ether going to become stronger than you were before or become a stone on the floor.

"The Battle with Mr. Covey"
Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half way out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment- - from whence came the spirit I don't know- - I resolved to fight; and suiting my action to the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose.
Frederick Douglass shows in his story that he was a realist in his time. That doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from every human being has an animal side that fights for our survival. Humans aren’t born slaves or mint to be slaves so there shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone when they fight back. It’s like when you take any animal out of its nature home to become your house pet, it’s not going to go easy or at that at all.

A social issue that Frederick Douglass wants to solve would be why is he there in the first place? Why is he a slave and why is he treated so? But the question is not why are things so but how did it come to this? Things happen in our lives that just can’t be explain for what purpose or cause. It’s just that we many looks upon the situation for us to take control of, meaning things shouldn’t happen where human beings are able to work on. People can’t help it because it rains but people can help when there’s a nation to be fed. As humans we are able only to do so much so when mistakes happen we are able to learn from them.

Lit. Antonio Hitchcock
Dark Romanticism Nov.7,’06

Nathaniel Hawthorne: would be against the transcendental philosophy because his great grandfather was one of the judges in the Salem witchcraft trials during Puritan times. During these trials, nineteen people and two dogs were hanged, and one man was crushed to death by stones all in the name of God.

Herman Melville: would be against the transcendental philosophy because when he was twelve he witnessed cannibals eating human flesh from a ship he was working on.

Edgar Allen Poe: would be against the transcendental philosophy because his mother died when he was very young, his stepfather disowned him when he went to college, and all three of his wives died from tuberculosis. Then he got addictions to opium and alcohol so coming up from that he knew not everyone was good nor himself.

Me myself I would have to be in with dark romanticism. Why because I myself know that everyone has maybe a little good in them but no one is absolutely good. Jesus was good man himself is not; even if man was to try he still couldn’t be absolutely good. I know I sin every day, so does everyone else so who is to say whose good and who’s not? I’ll say the ones who learn from their sins and try to do better are good, so people everywhere are trying but whosoever should achieve it should be doing good. The hard thing is being a man in a world such as this it’s hard to be good.

The Black Cat
"This story is bad enough to be an book!" I really like this story from the beginning to the end. I knew the ending was going to have something to do with that cat I just didn’t what. I knew that it was going to be the cat that would lead to his down fall but as I read the ending I would have never aspect it to be way it was.

The article "the Black Cat" is a story that tells about a man who is in love with his new pet cat. As stress and old age grows upon him making him more hostile with everything around him, he burst in rage against the pet cat he loves the most. After dealing with remorse of his sinful act another cat comes in his life that looks exactly like his old dear pet, but this time the cat like his wife as the new master. Having old wounds reopen again he enrages at his wife’s pet, but before he can once again achieve satiation his wife put a stop to it. Unhappy with this act and even more enrage than before he gives her a taste.

The characther is dark and evil in this story. He murders the black cat "One morning, in cold blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree;- hung it with tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart;- hung it because I knew it had lopved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence." like he does this all the time. You can't have a bit of good in to do something like this in cold blood. Anyone that knows when he or she is doing something wrong and does it anyway is bad or in this case evil. Anyone who doesn't know when they are doing somthing wrong is just crazy.


The Raven
The Raven is a story of constant change, changing moods of the character and the reader as I go. I love stories with constant change such as this because it gives the story life. This story "The Raven" is about a man at home who was reading a book and falls asleep, dreaming that someone was tapping at his door only to find it a raven. The raven speaks and his only words are "never more."

The man finds this scene amazing in joy of a bird that speaks and thinks of the master that maybe it once had before. "Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster" being by the bird had an unhappy master, this is an example of an anti-transcendental idea. "Prophet said I, thing of evil-prophet still if bird or devil!" Here he refers to the raven as a devil and that’s something a transcendentalist would never do. "And his eyes have all seeming at demon that is dreaming." The man is saying that he is looking into the eyes of a demon and that is also something a transcendentalist would never do.

Edgar Allen Poe's life
In Allen early life his father abandoned their family in 1810. His mother died a year later from "consumption" (tuberculosis). He became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts he acquired while trying to get more spending money, and traveled to Boston under the assumed name of Henri LeRennet, arriving there in April 1827. Then he secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835. She was 13 at the time. Every time something bad happens in his life he writes a poem like when his cousin Virginia broke a blood vessel while singing and playing the piano. Blood began to rush forth from her mouth. It was the first sign of consumption. He wrote the "The Raven" after this scene with his cousin illness. He then wrote more poems such as "Al Aaraaf", "Alone" "Annabel Lee" and more such as "The Bells" "Bridal Ballad". Most of his works came from a bad event in a point of time of his life.