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In Kate Chopin's short story ¨Desiree's Baby¨, Irony is the main point of the story. Situational Irony is shown throughout the story. This starts with the unknown past of Desiree and concluding with the realization of what Armand had done to his wife. In the story it is stated between context of how the racial superiority is for the family's name. Armand once said how much he adored and loved his wife, but later led her to kill herself along with their baby. ¨That is, the girls obscure origin.…

The Awakening by Kate Chopin Title The Awakening is related to Edna’s internal awakening that she has over the period of the book The Awakening was originally titled The Solitary Soul Setting New Orleans and The Grand Isle Genre Spiritual / artistic realization, romantic style Historical Information Kate Chopin 1850-1904 Father was Irish, Mother was French-American Bilingual- spoke both French and English Grew up in St.Louis Missouri Developed a passion for music at a young age Met and…

Guy De Maupassant’s “The Diamond Necklace” is a story set in the 19th century. The main characters are Mathilde and her husband. The story talks about how the wife of a common household - Mathilde Loisel, borrows a diamond necklace for an upcoming high class party and subsequently loses it afterward, only that she found out after working for ten years to pay back the debt of the necklace it is but a fake. Mathilde’s clash between the reality she faces and fantasies she longs for demonstrates the…

PRJ 1.3: For Whom the Bell Tolls In John Crowe Ransom’s poem, “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter,” the author uses the unexpected death of a child to show how people react when confronting mortality and the fragility of life. Ransom utilizes shifts in tone from stanza to stanza, lively metaphors and irony to illustrate these. In the first stanza, the tone is light and happy. Because he refers to her as “John Whiteside’s Daughter,” the speaker doesn’t seem to know the child personally. He…

A handscroll is a long narrow scroll for displaying a series of scenes in Japanese painting and calligraphy. The handscroll presents an artwork in the horizontal form and can be exceptionally long. The development of Heian culture was a way to show your love for another person. Both women and men would produce poems as well as paintings and calligraphy on the handscrolls. Lady Murasaki is the author of Tale of Genji one of the world’s longest novels. The significance of Tale of Genji is to…

I read the narrative, “The Healing Power of Grace,” by Katherine Lawrence. This narrative is about the author receiving grace following the death of her partner from a heart condition. The grace she received helped pull her out of her despair. The author is telling us that showing grace towards others, no matter what you think about the person, makes life possible. Lawrence is trying to say that showing grace towards a person shows that you care about them. Sadness is normal, and grace from…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, written by Mark Haddon, is written from the point of view of a mentally challenged teenager named Christopher John Francis Boone. The novel begins at the murder scene where Wellington, Mrs. Shears’ dog, lays dead with a garden fork through its abdomen. This event sparks an idea in Christopher’s genius mathematical mind to take an interest in the subject English and write a book with his teacher Siobhan about the mystery of Wellington’s death.…

The Awakening explores one woman's desire to find and live fully within her true self. I believe Kate Chopin wrote this novel because she grew up surrounded by smart, independent, single women. After her father died in a train accident in which a train he was riding crossed a bridge that collapsed. The next two years she had to live with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. I also think some inspiration came from the education she received from her great-grandmother. Her…

World Literature Alexis Joyce M. Soriano 4T2 Literary Analysis Chapter 10 was about the life of the family members of Clara after she died. As per Esteban, he has come to understand the ironical nature of the world, as he sees Clara's death not as separating them but rather as bringing them back together. He wants to be united with the two women which symbolizes his deep love for them but also a fact of his inevitable attachment to material things. The detailed information about what…

The short story “Desiree’s Baby” was written by the American author Kate Chopin. The story takes place in Louisiana and it begins with a flashback that Madame Valmonde has of Desiree being a baby and realizes that the baby she had found 18 years ago now has a baby. When Desiree gave birth, Madame Valmonde went to visit her and her baby. As soon as she saw the baby she knew there was something wrong with him, but that didn’t matter because Desiree loved him unconditionally. As time passed Armand,…