Synthesis Week 2

--There does not seem to be a large, overarching theme that connects all four of the reading for this week. However there does seem to be some themes that connect the first two readings and connect the second pair of readings. The theme that seems to connect “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Herland” is having to live under someone else’s laws and/or rules. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the heroine is forced to stay in her room day and night under her husband’s orders until she is “better.” In “Herland” the men are forced to change their ways and live according to how the women of Herland believe life should be. The overarching theme in “In Another Country” and “The Sun Also Rises” seems to be the idea of having to deal with life after war. Both pieces are based off of Hemmingway’s experiences so they reflect what life would have been like after being injured in war then having to go about life with the rest of civilization. The first two reading seem to connect with what we learned in history about how women fought to have the same rights as men and early in the 19th century fought for women’s suffrage. The last two reading connect to history about how Ben spoke on remembrance and how we remember the fallen or the lost. For the first theme, it seems that women in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s finally started to get the guts to stand up for what they wanted and it makes me question why they did not try sooner. For the second theme, it seems like the idea of remembrance would be a bigger issue since everybody has a different idea of how to remember someone or something.