The salinas valley is in northern california. it is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the salina
river winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into monterey bay
i remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. i remember where a toad may live and what time the
birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like how people looked and walked and smelled
even. the memory of odors is very rich.
source: steinbeck, john. east of eden new york: penguin group, 1952. google books. web. 16 may 2011
what is the narrator's point of view?
third-person omniscient
third-person limited
third-person objective
firct person

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.

the yellow wallpaper” examines the oppressive nature of gender roles as they were imposed on women in the late 19th century. the narrator is driven mad by her inability to assert her identity.