Kate Chopin The Storm Essay

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It is hard to envision any story without settings, since they set the mood and personality of the characters, as well place where the story happened. Settings help one discover the plot of a story.

1. In Kate Chopin’s The Storm, the characters speak French, and the Bayou is talked about, which tells me that the location of this short story is Louisiana.

2. The storm that descended upon the town caused Bobinot and Bibi to stay at Friedheimer’s store longer than intended.; which gave Calixta and Alcee an opportunity to rekindle an old attraction between the two.

3. One knows that Bobinot loves his wife because, in the midst of a storm, he had the presence of mind to think about pleasing her, by bringing her shrimp knowing that she liked
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Kate Chopin is not condoning immorality; her message is inferring that women doing the late 1800’s, were denied the right to express their inner needs and desires. Therefore they were vulnerable to desire and lust. They were expected to marry the person that society felt was suited for them. Never mind they were attracted to someone else. The author went against the grain in writing stories like this in a time when women had no rights. If women dared to behave in a manner such as Calixtra did, they risked of being ostracized from their families and communities.

5. Everything that happened in this story from being to end revolved around this the weather. After the storm had passed, Calixta felt warm rays of the sunshine inside her heart.

6. In the way that the Kate Chopin arranges the sequences of events to coincide with the activity of the storm. For an instant, something like this, when her heart beat hard, a loud roar of lighting struck the tree.

1. Most of the story revolves around the settings.

2. The deadly setting takes place in the Yukon, with a temperature of seventy below zero, the weather gave the man clues that it was too cold to continue, but he, the protagonist, ignores the warnings signs; feeling that he can defy

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