Journal Entry #2

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• It's shocking how women would get punished if they expressed their ideas.
• Gilman is a women and at this time she is very sick, but neither her husband or her brother who are both physicians think there's anything seriously wrong with her. Gilman disagrees with both of them.
• Gilman had many ideas taht her husband never wanted to listen to. For example, she wanted their room to be downstairs and he wanted it upstairs so that's where it ended up being.
• She also wants to be able to write and is forbidden to. She tries writing when there is nobody around.
• On August 18, 1920 the nineteenth amendment was ratified and women were now allowed to vote. Woodward was a women who signed the the Declaration of Sentiments in 1828 and she also lived to vote!
• She disagreed with all property belonging to men and women being treated as slaves. SHe became part of history, November 2, 1920.

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• Did John ever think about doing special studies on Gilman?
• If John cared so much about Gilman, why didn't he let her to things she wanted to do?
• How many women ended up voting the first year they were able to vote?
• Did Woodward feel scared at any point?

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• Untenanted (Gilman 29):
• Piazza (Gilman 31):
• Galore (Gilman 31):
• Riotous (Gilman 32):
• Chattel (Woodward 49):

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• "The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people" (Gilman 30). Imagery.
  
• "I had become a radical with a whole new perspective on womanhood" (McKissack 51). Man vs. Society.

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• Women experienced many hard times and had barely and rights and opportunities. Today, we should look back on that and take advantage of all of the opportunities that are given to us.