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Every person during their lifetime has experienced a feeling of pain, or distress after losing a family member. However, “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin shows the reader how an upsetting situation, like the death of a loved one, can be turned into an ironic event. This story revolves around a context where the loss of a family member turns into a joyful event for the main character, but then becomes the reason of the main character’s death. Therefore, the feelings that the main…

My spouse and I were sitting in the surgery waiting room as my eight-year-old son was having his feet worked on. My spouse remarked on how wonderful and warm, an older (60s) woman was as she passed him coming into the waiting room and said "hi." A specialist came into the waiting room, motioned the woman over, and talked about how her spouse's surgery was going. The woman's outward appearance in a flash transformed from a grinning warm individual to obvious shaken. She started to cry, dried…

The narrator’s point of view in the story is limited. The readers learn in the beginning of the story whose thoughts and feelings are described. In lines 1-3, Chopin states “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, ...news of her husband’s death.” “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break her as gently as possible” (line 1-2). The evidence shows that Josephine and Richards expect Mrs.Mallard to react in a dismal way. Mrs.…

n “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard spends a long hour thinking about how her life would change without her husband and many of her thoughts reflect the Feminist Theory. There are several examples that make the readers realize that she has feministic characteristics. Louise was relieved with the death of her husband, she did not have as many freedoms as her husband, and in the story she did not always talk about a man. First of all, Louise almost felt a sense of relief when she found out…

Unlike today, woman typically did not express their true inner feelings. In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, a woman rejoices with the thought of her husband no longer being around. His death results in her realization of freedom of which the excitement possesses her and makes it easy for her to embrace. Ultimately, the excitement kills her. In the beginning of the short story, we learn that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble. Mrs. Mallard; physical heart troubles symbolize her…

The Famous Shipwreck Of The Lusitania Have you ever been in a shipwreck and survived? Only 761 people did in the historical event in 1915 during the shipwreck of the Lusitania. There are many ideas on how the author empathizes with the readers to the passengers on the Lusitania. In the passage, there are many details on how the author empathizes the reader to the passengers. The first example,” She must have felt glamorous to be traveling to England on a ship as grand as a New York hotel.”…

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…

illustrate 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…