A Story

composes of constraining walls inside of other walls, that can become a barrier to the outside world. The short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, hints about Mrs. Mallard’s celebration for freedom after the news of her husband’s death, and her sudden death on seeing her husband again. Did she die because she was overjoyed or was it fear of living in bondage? Story of An Hour tells a story about a middle aged woman who claims to be in love with her husband but is trapped in a unhappy…

In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin uses symbolism, imagery, and similes to show how marriage was for this woman. “The Story of an Hour”, describes a woman’s view on her marriage after her husband had died. This woman was happy that she was finally free to live her own life and not have to live her life in the shadow of her own husband. This whole story took place within one hour. She thought her husband was dead, but he ended up being alive, and soon after she found that out, she died.…

In both “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” by Russell Banks, and “Parallel Universes,” by Etgar Keret, multiple worlds are used in two different ways to cope with a loss being experienced by the main characters of the narratives. “Parallel Universes” has the most common form of multiple worlds as the individual that narrates begins with “There’s a theory that says there are billions of other universes” and goes on to imagine those other universes. However, this concept of other universes are…

Choices In the short stories “A&P” by John Updike, “Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the protagoni, are all face drastically different situations: an embarrassment three attractive female shoppers, a post-war world that is void of sunlight, and a rural southern home in which heritage drives the family apart. The characters can be linked together through their response to conflict: they choose to act selflessly rather than selfishly. The selfless acts of…

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin briefly recounts the tale of a frail, old woman, Mrs. Mallard, who learns of her husband’s unexpected death. Feeling relieved by the freedom widowhood affords, she quickly overcomes her heartbreak. However, as she is overcoming her heartbreak, her husband returns, and her heart breaks, causing her to drop dead on the spot. “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that, as promised, takes place over the course of an hour. The rapid pacing of the story gives…

moved from LA to Anaheim. This experience for me really made me change my ways. There’s a story called,”The Lottery”. It is a story, well, about a lottery. It contained a character,…

An enjoyable horror story gets our pulses racing and our skin tingling. The horror genre often revolves around the chaos of death, evil, demonic nightmares that tends to keep us up at night. When a story keeps us in suspense, we feel almost as if we are suspended in midair. We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends. Authors construct their horror stories to leave a great feeling of suspense as you continually read on. The author wants…

“Stories matter, many stories matter” (17:42), but it is how we use these stories to connect with someone and are not ignorant to the single story. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of her every day like to find her cultural voice. She warns that if only a single story is heard there will be a crucial misunderstanding about a person or thing. She also includes the use of stereotypes in her stories. But she began her talk about her life as a child and the literature she read. Adichie…

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is one of the best short stories I have ever read. I took it in on so many levels and can interpret it in many ways. The story was written in 1894, so it was written in the late 19th century, which was an era where equality struggled and women did not have rights. The author writes the story along some of the issues that women encountered during this time. Women were looked on as minorities and weren’t treated with proper respect. They were expected to…

Today I came across a fascinating story filled suspense, darkness, mystery, and an ironic ending. It was given the title “The Interlopers” and the first time I read it, it took a few minutes to pass through my brain. I found that it was different from any short story I have read so far thus I managed to enjoy it a lot. Here are my thoughts and ideas about this short story, written by Saki. Like the title, The Interlopers, the short story itself includes of several different interlopers.…