I didn't realize that Crisis and Mary Elizabeth were both written by the same person until after I read Mary Elizabeth and started reading the Crisis writings. The articles seemed to be written by two very different writing. Both of them were written in very different styles. The Mary Elizabeth reading was very simple and just an easy read story. When I started reading the Crisis article, however, I thought the complete opposite. Maybe it's because poems are not my best and I have to read them multiple times to break them down to find a meaning for them. The Mary Elizabeth reading was a cute story and how it ended was obviously in a good way, but it was kind of weird. It was funny how Mary Elizabeth married a Mr. Gale and Mr. Gales...I was just as confused at first at least until I read a little more into it. The story about when Mary Elizabeth was younger was very interesting. It was a very interesting turnout how the husband came back expecting Maggie to come back with her and she was remarried yet he had remarried four other times! I dont know, that was just weird to me. I did like the turnout though and how they ended up back together. I'm not sure if we're going into a different direction or what we were supposed to get out of the story; meaning and theme wise.
Ok. So the Crisis reading...I've read it over a few times and like I said poems just are not my best. I've got a few ideas but I'm not completely sure what they are exactly about, if they're all related or have to do with her family...I'm not completely sure!
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Yea the whole multiple marriage thing was weird. There were some strange ideas about fidelity exhibited here. I will admit that the ending was basically what I would've hoped for for the characters.
I was not sure what we were suppose to get ot of the reading of Mary Elizabeth either. What I took away from the conclusion of the story was from what the husband said about how he would kill her if she had married and he came back even if he had done it 50 times. This double stereotype seems to be important in regards to the sexist principles evident in this time period.
I was very confused about mary elizabeth to i had to read it twice to kind of get it.What i got out of it was the theme of gender roles in that time period. Now with the poems i wasnt really sure about those either.
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