Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, is a part of a book by Daniel Deneau called The Explicator. The article was published at Minnesota State University- Morehead. This article serves as a quality scholarly article because it clearly depicts Chopin’s The Story of an Hour to a tee, Deneau does a phenomenal job explaining each line and what exactly it means. Deneau allows readers of Chopin’s story to greater understand what is happening and really grasp the short story at hand. This article is a combination of his thoughts and other scholars thought about the short story, many sources are listed that Deneau used throughout his article. The author, Deneau uses direct quotes from the text to even more so prove his point about why Chopin said this or
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In the first paragraph of this article Deneau states that “Innumerable students, ranging from the very naive to the very sophisticated, must have grappled with the story in discussions and essays”. (210) This passage would appeal to scholars. Teachers and even students. These are the people who love to study authors and their works, the text at hand would appeal to them because these people enjoy learning more about short stories. The audience has probably already read some of Chopin’s work and is familiar with it however; they need to know more about why Chopin writes like she does. The format of the text shows that it is formal yet would be appropriate in most any type of organization such as a book club or a classroom. This tells me that it is a very versatile type of text and can be used in a variety of situations. The passage is documented in MLA format, and is also cited in MLA format. The author only has a title, there are no headings above each separate document. The language is a little more advanced that normal, however most students and teachers could easily read the passage. The subject of the text is obviously about Kate Chopin and The Story of an Hour. From the subject of this text you can tell that it is going to be an informative paper about the work of
In the first paragraph of this article Deneau states that “Innumerable students, ranging from the very naive to the very sophisticated, must have grappled with the story in discussions and essays”. (210) This passage would appeal to scholars. Teachers and even students. These are the people who love to study authors and their works, the text at hand would appeal to them because these people enjoy learning more about short stories. The audience has probably already read some of Chopin’s work and is familiar with it however; they need to know more about why Chopin writes like she does. The format of the text shows that it is formal yet would be appropriate in most any type of organization such as a book club or a classroom. This tells me that it is a very versatile type of text and can be used in a variety of situations. The passage is documented in MLA format, and is also cited in MLA format. The author only has a title, there are no headings above each separate document. The language is a little more advanced that normal, however most students and teachers could easily read the passage. The subject of the text is obviously about Kate Chopin and The Story of an Hour. From the subject of this text you can tell that it is going to be an informative paper about the work of