Analyzing Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

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A: The Passing of Grandison by Charles. W Chesnutt
B: One of the first sentences in “The Passing of Grandison”, Chesnutt was strong to show Dick Owens’ actions, and that they were only performed to satisfy a woman. This story is exceptional because there is no relevance between the characters in the story. Normally there is some connotation in the genders, age and races of the characters in stories, but in “The Passing of Grandison” there is none whatsoever. The only correlation between the characters is that they are all manipulators and exploiters. With all of the protagonists being schemers, this advances the theme by presenting dissimilar ranges and mixtures of unsuccessful manipulation efforts, and deception leads to the climax of the story, where Grandison irrevocably runs away with his families and close friends

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Edna states that the years are “going to seem like dreams”. She then states that it is better to wake up after all, even if she has to agonize. Edna’s awakening leads her to struggle from knowledge, this is now valued more to her then a whole lifespan of semi-conscious capitulations.

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A: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church by Emily Dickinson
B: Many people debate about spending a few hours at church a week, but Emily Dickinson believes that it is satisfying and elated to worship God in anyway that one satisfies. Modern day pressures make most people second guess their religious choices, but Dickinson believes you should worship in essentially whatever way is easiest for someone.

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A: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
B: This story has many imageries that it portrays to the reader. This specific quote, “How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by

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