The Story of an Hour

Morgan Pardoe SSR Project Miss Windish 10 November 2017 Hard to Let Go A sorrowful young woman. Grieving from losing her older brother to cancer. Finding love once again. What are these things about? They all are things that are in the book “Love, Lucas”. The author of “Love, Lucas” is Chantele Sedgwick. A mother and a father loses their son to cancer. The daughter of the couple loses her brother, also known as her best friend. Oakley, the daughter, and her mother move to California to live with…

“Desiree’s Baby” is a short story written by Kate Chopin. This story is about Mr. and Mrs. Valmonde’s adopted daughter Desiree, and how she is courted by the son of another wealthy French Creole neighborhood family, Armand Aubigny who knows nothing of her origins. Desiree was found by an old pillar at a couple months old, believed to be left by a party of Texans. Desiree grew up into a beautiful and gentle young lady, but still had no knowledge on who she really was. Armand falls in love with…

Bullets fill the air and steal the lives of soldiers. An old woman peacefully passed away on the hospital bed. A killer disease takes away a child from her mother. The passages explore these natural and unnatural causes of death. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows how Huck is on an adventure to free his friend, Jim, but there are many obstacles in the way, like the feud between the Grangerford family and the Shepherdson family. In the poem, “I am Vertical,”…

free, courageous and powerful. At the end, she seems to be an optimist, longing for a new, fresh life and obviously she smiles whole-heartedly. She says that”the new rains will come down soon”(307) which symbolizes that a new life is yet to start. Beatrice suffers all the effects of patriarchal domination perpetuated by her husband and Igbo culture. But gradually she seems to be losing her patience. She thinks independently to quit domestic abuse. So she kills her husband. Both the…

and then “mama” showing that he is symbolically put in his place as his mother’s child, not the other way around (689). He most likely will never want to slap his mother like “a particularly obnoxious child in his charge” again (685). Yet, as the story ends Julian only shows remorse for how he treated his mother, not for how he looks at the people of his community. This leads readers to believe that while he might treat his mother differently if given a second chance, it is unlikely he would…

Analysis of the Death of a Moth Virginia Woolf was a very clear writer. No matter the topic or the tone, you would get what she wanted you to experience. In “Death of a Moth”, Ms. Woolf uses her tone and selection of detail to share how she felt about the struggle between life and death. Throughout the personal essay we get to see how Ms. Woolf viewed her own life and fears through the personification of her insect character, a moth. Ms. Woolf’s tone changes only once within the essay. The first…

In the short story, "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush, the author utilizes imagery, repetition, and irony. Through those literary devices, the author promotes the idea that the couple is unhappy and having problems within their relationship. These literary devices portray the image of being in a toxic relationship. The author identifies a couple and grasps sudden attention towards them. The author, demonstrating imagery states, "They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked…

The author’s use of the word “repression” when describing Mrs. Mallard now hints as foreshadowing and is later supported when it is mentioned no powerful external will would continue to bend hers. Recognizing that this story takes place in a time before now, when a never married woman is afforded the same opportunities as men, further saves the protagonist from being identified as perhaps a thoroughly bad wife. As the reader continues following Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts and emotions, Chopin…

card that the AA gives to the patient and their families with the prayer on them. “ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the diffrence”(page 121). At this point in the story Charlie is a Forest Hills with her family to drop Abby off at the rehab place and she got bored while her parents filled out paperwork, so she started reading signs that were hung up and of them had an ocean scene and said“ God grant me the…

Molly Nashan Mr. Hartley CA IV 21 September 2016 Unit 2 Essay Before the introduction of Christianity, the Anglo-Saxon society was a cold, dark place. Like in the early years of America, women were treated more as property then actual humans. InThe Wife’s Lament the speaker grieving because her husband died and she left her home, she’s almost hopeless, but when she gets a second husband, things change. When the speaker stated Very often we boasted that none but death alone would…