{"id":7373,"date":"2021-04-14T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2021-04-14T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:24:41","slug":"blog-post-4-15-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/04\/14\/blog-post-4-15-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 4\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really liked today\u2019s podcast about close-reading and how it related to the last podcast about storytelling in popular culture. All throughout high school I was told to closely read my reading assignments but my teachers failed to explain what they actually meant. This podcast put all of that into perspective. Now I understand the importance of close-reading and how it takes all of the little factors of whatever you are reading or watching to understand the overall narrative and messages. Understanding close-reading more clearly helped me understand The Yellow Wallpaper. While I have read it before, this time I was better able to understand the underlying themes that were written between the lines. While at first it simply seems like a woman discussing her life, marriage and illness, it quickly becomes clear the real theme of the story is how women used to be oppressed and treated in society. The author is continuously told what is best for her from her trusted doctor, aka her husband. I think a very important theme that I understood from the reading is the discussion of mental health. I only understood the theme of mental health further after listening to the podcast and how Gilman struggled with postpartum depression. This reading clearly exemplifies how mental health used to be thought about and how it was \u201ctreated\u201d by doctors. These messages which used to be the reality of America have continued to influence how mental health is thought about by society. Something that I have learned in my psychology classes is that today the biggest barrier for people wanting to seek help with mental health issues is stigma. The continued relevance that the narrative of The Yellow Wallpaper still has today explains why this story and its messages matters. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked today\u2019s podcast about close-reading and how it related to the last podcast about storytelling in popular culture. All throughout high school I was told to closely read my reading assignments but my teachers failed to explain what they actually meant. This podcast put all of that into perspective. Now I understand the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}