Richard Reyes Mr. Amoroso
AP Literature and Composition Period: 3
LAP TOPIC #5
Our inability to truthfully say that we are fulfilled with ourselves is the cause for normality. We caress our skin in the clear mirror to impress everyone else, but we lose ourselves in a world of distortion. However, there is the rift within us that when we look in the mirror, we realize that this is just a toxic mirage. Crash! The pristine sound of breaking the fake image , breaking apart the delusional glass that brought about crisis in us. Appearance and actions confine us into a cage that dilutes the implicit spirit that is within everybody. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna is the main character who shatters the glass of poison. The incarceration that she had to deal with
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Her first step to being independent was brought about when she learned how to swim.
Richard Reyes Mr. Amoroso
AP Literature and Composition Period: 3
LAP TOPIC #5
The serenity that the ocean gave her was a refreshing sense and the scare that it brings makes a human realize that they are mortal.” The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. ”(Chopin, 115).
Mortality is undertone for Edna's personal journey. She was pleased when she had time to herself, she didn't need to worry about her children. Painting was the freedom that arose from her pleasant loneliness. It was a scapegoat from all her problems with her marriage , with herself and with Robert. Painting and music evoked emotions within herself. The crescendo that climaxed within her brain, pleasured her and brought tears to her eyes. She had found herself being happy and triumphant. She came to the realization after Robert left her when she went to see the birth of Adele's children, that she had once again lost herself to the wit of men. They did as
AP Literature and Composition Period: 3
LAP TOPIC #5
Our inability to truthfully say that we are fulfilled with ourselves is the cause for normality. We caress our skin in the clear mirror to impress everyone else, but we lose ourselves in a world of distortion. However, there is the rift within us that when we look in the mirror, we realize that this is just a toxic mirage. Crash! The pristine sound of breaking the fake image , breaking apart the delusional glass that brought about crisis in us. Appearance and actions confine us into a cage that dilutes the implicit spirit that is within everybody. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna is the main character who shatters the glass of poison. The incarceration that she had to deal with
made …show more content…
Her first step to being independent was brought about when she learned how to swim.
Richard Reyes Mr. Amoroso
AP Literature and Composition Period: 3
LAP TOPIC #5
The serenity that the ocean gave her was a refreshing sense and the scare that it brings makes a human realize that they are mortal.” The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. ”(Chopin, 115).
Mortality is undertone for Edna's personal journey. She was pleased when she had time to herself, she didn't need to worry about her children. Painting was the freedom that arose from her pleasant loneliness. It was a scapegoat from all her problems with her marriage , with herself and with Robert. Painting and music evoked emotions within herself. The crescendo that climaxed within her brain, pleasured her and brought tears to her eyes. She had found herself being happy and triumphant. She came to the realization after Robert left her when she went to see the birth of Adele's children, that she had once again lost herself to the wit of men. They did as