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that they left her with. She was left on her own fate with a doctor name Meyers. She was just looking for love and a good life to live in. In the poem "Butch Weldy", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about his job and how he fills a tank with gas and one morning it explodes and it blinds him and brakes his 2 legs. The people…

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…

through something no human should have to go through, the death of a child. In “Yellow Wallpaper,” the soon to be mother is trapped in the mental state that nothing happened to her. In “Home Burial,” the father is weighted down by the thought of no one has the time to listen about how he feels. “Yellow Wallpaper,” and “Home Burial,” tell the stories of two alike tragedies and how people cope with them. However, the two literary readings could not be any more…

relates to the book in many ways because of the amount of death that takes place in the novel. It affects the main characters in many ways especially Liesel since the book talks more about her life than any other character in the book. Which links it to one of the strongest symbols I have noticed in this book is the amount of love that takes place in it. There are different varieties of love displayed in the novel like the father daughter kind of love, the brotherly kind of love, the friend…

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…

Rebecca I would like to explore two of the many characters that are presented in the novel Rebecca. In the story of Rebecca the author illustrates a variety of identities. Therefore, it could be taken as that one could relate to one of the identities in Rebecca. The first identity that will be looked at is the heroine. The heroine does not have a first name that is mentioned in the book. (Du Maurier, 24) She is referred to by many other names for example Mrs. de Winter, madam, and…

The eulogy of humanitarian/Princess Diana is a speech told to the world, that a great person had sadly left this world too early. Lord Spencer, Diana’s brother, addresses the world the news about the mournful loss of his sister. Spencer uses rhetorical strategies such as pathos, diction, and syntax to tell the world how big a loss Diana is not only for her family, but also for the whole world. Spencer connects to people’s emotions throughout the eulogy. He tells of the time that Diana once…