Summer Swim

As I enter the cool water the icy chill shoots down my spine. My mother paddles next to me in a gleaming red kayak. I embarked on my journey my mother paddling by my side pretty much so I don't die. I start off strong with the always reliable breast stroke, but quickly tire and have to revert to the side stroke. I continue my swim, my destination coming closer and closer in front of me I continue to tire periodically taking breaks. After I final push I reach my destination the other side of the lake and look back across embracing my accomplishment. As I get into the kayak to be paddled   back to the opposite side I finally relax and look forward to my swim next 4th of July.

Elders Epiphany

In the end of A Clean, Well-Lighted Place the Old waiter realizes what the older man is going through and how tough it really is for him. He sees the need for company when everything around is lost and there is no one else to keep you company. The old waiter values the time just as the old man does but in a different way from the young man. The young man wants to hurry and do things so he can leave while the older men want to just embrace in the moment and enjoy the time they have together, a trait only time can give them. In the end of the story the old waiter does have a epiphany because he realizes that he will someday be like the old man, old and alone looking for a clean, well-lighted place for himself to stay.

Steller Story

My Steller was written on the key themes throughout each one of the stories we read, money. The effects of every event in the stories was due to money. In Paul's Case he killed himself because he didn't have the money to live the life he wanted. In The Chrysanthemums the sails men only asked for the flowers so she will connect with him and give him work. Later in the story he only keeps the pot because it is the only thing that has value to him. In The Barn Burning the reason the man is going to burn the barn when he is killed is because the man is forcing him to pay for the carpet he destroyed.

Link: https://steller.co/stories/362411566605272434

Picture references:
http://www.echinacities.com/news/Suzhou-Hosts-Chrysanthemum-Show
http://www.archives.gov/research/american-west/
http://www.meridianpeakhypnosis.com/money-addiction-wealth-addiction-hypnotherapy/
http://www.hosttotheworld.com/omeka/items/browse?tag=Exteriors
http://dakann.deviantart.com/art/Runaway-Train-Black-and-White-53677952
http://naturalhealingwizard.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup/
http://joestuteville.blogspot.com/2012/09/barn-burning-birds-dillinger-and-man.html

Paul's Predicament

In Pauls case the Main character Paul is trying to run away from the way he lives. He wants to be rich and live the luxurious life while he is stuck not living the life he wants. Although Paul seems to want to just become rich this isn't true because really nothing makes Paul happy. Even after running away from his troubles and living the life that he wants he still commits suicide. This is because Paul will never truly be happy with anything, he always looks for more and even once he finds something that he life eventually it will become old to him and he will still want more.

In Chrysanthemums the women wants to get away from the beliefs that she's is inferior to men. She is greatly offended when the Pot and Pan repairman tells her that the way he lives would be much to hard of a lifestyle for a women. She is tired of her husband saying she doesn't want to go the fights because they are to violent for her because she is a women. In the story she isn't able to run away from this because she continues her ways and doesn't change even though she is ashamed of them.
She shows this by hiding from the pot and pan repairman when her and her husband drive by him.

Rebellion Through Writing

In The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the narrators rebellion is through writing. She talks about how her husband is a physician as well as her brother and how both of them tell her that writing as well as work is bad for her. She say's "There come John, and I must put this away-he hates to have me write a word" Even with her husband as well as brother telling her not to write she continues to. She says "I did write for a while in spite of them" she listens to her husband in every way with advice about her condition but her one rebellion is in her writing. She does this even though she is told not to and even though it makes her tired. This is because everyone has a point where they cannot follow rules anymore.