Popular Mechanics by Neus Giner

Sometimes the ending of a story gives us more information than the whole story itself. Popular Mechanics is a good example.
We are going to imagine three different endings and observe how the theme changes depending on them.
First of all, we are going to consider that the baby died in the parent’s fight for it. The [...]

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Halloween, written by Ajla Suljevic

This article represents scientific view of all supernatural ‘facts’. It explains why some people can see, hear or feel things which are not considered to be real by majority. Biological and psychological perspectives, which are shown in this article, are scientific base for this article. Writer gives explanation of everything and gives examples so he [...]

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Popular Mechanics, written by Ajla Suljevic

This story is written as an example of price that family as institution in modern time has to pay so that individuals would gain personal satisfaction.
Divorce is common in last century and people are often concentrated on lot of different things, but no one is paying attention on what is really important.
We can see [...]

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some thoughts about Popular Mechanics

It’s a story about love and hate and how it is reflected. Short story about very long topic actually shows us what’s our current society all about. It’s about beginnings and endings of love and hate.
A symbol of baby is quiet important in this story. It belongs to both of them but actually doesn’t belong [...]

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POPULAR MECHANICS – ANALYSIS by Cecilia Astolfi

The story is emblematic. The husband did something wrong, the wife is still in love with him, a baby is the possible link between them. What will happen to the baby?
The man doesn’t really care about the baby: he thinks about him only after the women takes his photograph. In my opinion, this means that [...]

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Popular Mechanics, father gets the baby (by Arlinda Rezhdo)

The author wants to show the wrong way the society is organized. Time ago as well as now, was the strongest of the family who won the game and not the one who deserves it better.
The story is based on symbols. The main symbol is the baby. He represents the continuing of the family. The [...]

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POPULAR MECHANICS – THE END by Cecilia Astolfi

For God’s sake, stop it, she said. Stop it, stop it, it’s mine.
He’s not yours, women! Not more. I’ll take it with me, it’s useless that you fight.
The women looked at the baby, open her eyes wide and humming, this baby is my baby… and we are killing him… she cried, and stopped to pulled. [...]

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Feedback on The Yellow Wallpaper

Well done, all!
 
There’s been some very good reflection on each character.
 
Jennie
 
She does certainly seem as constant presence and static sort of person. However, we know from the narrator that she is curious about the wallpaper. Discuss the following quotes:
- She caught Jennie looking at the paper and also ‘I caught Jennie with her hand on [...]

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Reading Journal 5: Popular Mechanics

Our next journal will be on ‘Popular Mechanics’ by Raymond Carver. For this task, you will assume a particular ending to the story (e.g. the baby died, the baby was taken away from the parents, one of the parents got it). The story could have a range of interpretations depending on what the ending [...]

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Caracterization of Jennie (“Yellow Wallpaper”) by Neus Giner

To characterize Jenny, John’s sister, is easy in the way that she is a really static character. In fact, she doesn’t change at all in the whole story, as we can not see an evolution of this character.
The first words that we read about her are: “Such a dear girl as she is, and so [...]

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