Comparing The Bird Sings And The Story Of An Hour

The Bird Caged Sings were made by Maya Angelou a strong African American woman around the 1969, and The Story of an Hour were made by Kate Chopin an American Written published in 1894. These two stories are very related because they both characters are prisoners by something or someone else and they desire to be free. At the beginning of the story the reader notice in the settings that the bird is on can a caged locket of his nature to fly by something else (racism and segregation) “his wings are clipped and his feet are tied,,,”. Story of an Hour is about a woman who live under her husband decisions and she depends totally on him, because of this she is a prisoner of her marriage. She thinks and felt her marriage as an oppression in her life. …show more content…
For example in Bird Caged “oranges sun rays and dares to claim the sky…” and in The Story of an Hour “the delicious breath of rain was in the air..” Also, both main characters want freedom and they find they own way to have that freedom. In the case of, The Bird Caged even when he has his wings clipped and his feet tied, yet he still singing in the name of freedom, because it was the only way he can live happy and imagine a freedom for a short time “On the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom”. In the Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard finds the freedom of her marriage and husband after she dies because it was the only way that she can live without her husband protection “when the doctors came they said she dies of heart disease—of the joy that