Eight-hour day

In “My Year of No Shopping,” American author Ann Patchett (2017) assesses how one can sacrifice his/her desires in order to save money, time, and other valuable moments of life. The author here reveals how one can live without a year of no shopping. In order to support her idea, she describes two friends where one is convincing the other on how she is living without shopping. Inspired by her friend, the author also pledges for a year of no shopping. As time went on, she realizes how well…

Seconds of Summer, and the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. In “Want You Back” the band sings about a girl whom they have left and will always want back. In “All Summer in a Day” the author tells about about students on Venus, who are in the absence of the sun and are grieving the loss of it too. In both of these selections, the band and the author use imagery and repetition to convey the theme. In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, imagery is used to convey the theme.…

In the poem "Minerva Jones", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about how Minerva Jones died in the hands of a doctor. People hooting at her while she walks down the street. Minerva Jones is describe as a heavy body, cocked-eye, and rolling walk girl. What i learned about this individual was that she was named called for just walking down the streets. The people she talks about are the people who were hooting at her and the doctor that they left her with. She was left on her own fate with a doctor name…

helps to demonstrate the symbolization of a woman who just experienced her most triumphant victory over her oppressor. With her “body and soul free” (66), she is expressing just how great of an oppression that had consumed her soul. In “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, which represents the element of symbolism through seasons, freedom, and death to convey a message of the oppression of a woman’s soul. The seasons play an important role in setting up for the freedom aspect of the story, but it…

"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The short story talking about a woman, Louise Mallard, who locked herself in her room after hearing the death of her husband and the series of emotions her endured. Ironically，Mallard finally died of her heart trouble when she saw her husband back. Especially the foreshadowing and irony make the story really wonderful. Though Mallard’s thinking, the author showed married women’s self-struggle at that time. To be honest, I…

an Hour” because you only have what Mrs. Mallard feels and what she feels. That was purposely done for the text because if you knew everything about the background of Mrs. Mallard and her husband’s relationship the effect of her perceived freedom may not have the same effect. The perspective gives this idea of mysteriousness about her life and essentially leaves it up to interpretation, and as a reader you feel something was very wrong with Mrs. Mallard’s relationship because she died an hour…

In the short story “The Story of a Hour”, author Kate Chopin tells the story of a married women in the 1800’s who struggles with the reality that her husbands is deceased and now she is finally free. The story follows the narrator as she copes with the fact she is no longer her husband’s chattel. According to Historical Brief “Lives of the Women in the 1800’s”, Kelley Smith informs us that, “women’s sole purpose in life is to find a husband, reproduce and then spend the rest of their lives…

Tragedies are a part of life. They can happen to anyone. It does not matter the type of person someone is they can still go through something tragic in his or her life. Most tragedies that are experienced in life, end in a horrific death. However, some tragedies do not end in a horrific death they end in a simple, quiet death, but the effects of the death is tragic to the people surrounded by it. In both the short story “Yellow Wallpaper,” and the poem “Home Burial,” the characters were struck…

This song in particular has a chorus that reminds me of Max when he leaves his note for Hans at the bridge where they left off. It also reminds me of another part of the book where Liesel grows more independent and becomes more confident during the raids. This song again has the beat of great adventure and sadness at the same time, which fits perfectly with this part of the book. It symbolizes courage and thanks because Hans took Max under his wing when he clearly didn’t have to but he kept his…

Although similarities are found in the characters, suspense, and death in the short stories, “The Interlopers” (written by Saki), and “The Story of An Hour” (written by Kate Choplin), differences are also noticeable. The characters of “The Story of An Hour” and “The Interlopers” are alike, yet their differences are hardly avoidable. In “The Story of An Hour,” Mrs. Mallad who was afflicted with a heart trouble, had just received the devastating news of her husband's death. She reacted to it…