Eight-hour day

were caged not physically but mentally, in the 19th century. Women weren’t able to just do anything they want. They couldn’t in the view of the fact that they had to live by social morality. Kate Chopin wrote a short story called “The Story of An Hour’’. Kate Chopin illustrates women struggles in the 19th century through her character Mrs. Mallard. Chopin exemplifies Mrs. Mallard struggles and emotion through irony, imagery, and symbolism. Chopin uses symbolism to exemplify Mrs. mallard heart…

Sommers as a conflicted, young girl, even though she is a grown woman. In the first paragraph, Chopin described Sommers in such a way that the reader becomes aware of her childish characteristics. Chopin writes about how, “Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected…

Real-life Demons My eyes open. I feel as if my body’s asleep, but my mind is wide awake. My arms and legs are limp, like a teddy bear without stuffing. I move my mouth to talk, but no sound comes out. ]I am in a hospital. I’m standing still, but the hospital is hovering around me. The first thing I see is a body lying lifeless on a hospital bed. I continue to stare at this person who looks exactly like me, and I think, Who is that? Why is she here? Then I look around. I see hospital beds and…

Every music genre expresses my sensory experiences in different ways. Music that I use for meditation put me in a relaxed mood even if I hear it and I am not meditating. Other music genres depend on the time that the songs came out, give me different feelings. Music from the 1980s and 1990s give me senses of nostalgia, music from the early 2000s remind me of my prime years in my childhood and immigrating to the United States. Depending on the place of time, I always reimagine myself in that time…

as I have recently turned 17 years old, and have come to realise that I am only one year away from adulthood, as well as realising the responsibilities that come with it. To me, this is both scary and exciting as it feels like the other day I started my first day of school, when in reality, I’ve nearly finished. As well as exploring the idea that time passes quickly, Linklater also explores the idea that people change. In Boyhood, Linklater focuses greatly on character development, and the way…

In The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin uses dramatic and situational irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that the character(s) do not. Situational irony is occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. Irony provides a better understanding of a situation or a story, and gives more insight to characters. One example of dramatic irony is when the reader knows Louise Mallard was in her room with a sense of freedom…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in the mind of someone with a mood disorder? If an individual were to read the book An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness by Kay Jamison they would have a complete picture of the ups and downs someone with bipolar can face. It creates the picture of the highest of highs where an individual with a mood disorder feels unstoppable with infinite energy, and the lowest of lows where they feel death is the only answer. In this book review I…

Kate Chopin's The Story of An Hour makes effective use of only a few pages to embody a woman's perspective into marriage during the 1800s. In the short story, Chopin depicts the life of a married woman through an omnipresent narration and allows us, as the readers, to obtain additional insight that is unknown to the stories other characters. Through the use of this type of narration we are able to develop an understanding of the unhappiness Mrs. Mallard has experienced with being married to her…

Authors criticize society by presenting characters who are somehow trapped or imprisoned. In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard is trapped in an unhappy marriage. After some initial sadness, Mrs. Mallard experiences a newfound sense of freedom when she is told that her husband has died in a railroad disaster. The story comments on the expectation of American women to pursue marriage and motherhood instead of seeking an education and a job in late 19th century American society.…

of the setting we wouldn’t know which country she lived in and how it affected her life. 2. Hyperbole “We were both looking at the X ray, doctor and nurse conferring about a patient. I breathed out slowly, as though I had been holding my breath for days” (Opdyke 44). This is when Dr. David gave Irene a train ticket to Svetlana. Opdyke’s meaning of this quote was to tell the reader that she was so relieved to leave the hospital…