After completing my secondary annotation on Showalter and West, I feel a little more confident about making annotations. I love reading into bits of information and speculating about their meaning so the past few assignments were actually pretty fun for me. After this week, I also feel less anxious about the annotated digital edition assignment … [Read more…]
One thing that really stuck out to me about this piece is the repetition of “John says” throughout “The Yellow Wallpaper.” If we are to analyze this phrase, the content of what John is saying is incredibly punitive to his wife. Just on page 1, he is already laughing at her for being anxious about … [Read more…]
At this point in the course, I am really looking forward to the annotation process because to me, one of the most important things about being an active reader is annotating. In writing, nothing is ever put on paper by chance so although it can feel neurotic to look over ever detail (word choice, punctuation, … [Read more…]
