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Summary of The Kiss by Kate Chopin
Nelson Mandela became the first president of South Africa in an election that allowed all South African citizens to vote. Shortly after his inauguration, Mandela appointed a cabinet that would represent his county’s diverse political and ethnic groups. He chose members from the African National Congress, the Inkatha Freedom Party and the National party. In addition, he held discussions with the Right Wing Conservative Party and sent one of his associates to talk with the neo-fascist Afrikiner Resistance movement ("HW Wilson Company," 2009, para. 5). These actions resulted in a greater understanding and tolerance among the different political and ethnic groups of South…
During their first year of marriage Zeena becomes ill and unable to take care of things around the house. Her cousin Mattie is in need of somewhere to stay and Zeena is in need of help…
How does chopin use the 3 different men in her story to show the types of love that she interacts with.…
Her stories often deal with marriage and would provoke an unconventional perspective on the theme. “She forced her characters to face choices between what society expects of them and what they really desired” (Bonner Jr.). When the characters decided to follow their own path rather than that of society, it forces the reader to explore the problems and dilemmas that women face. “Chopin also is unafraid to suggest that sometimes women want sex -- or even independence” (Baker). Women accepted their roles forced upon them by society, even though a void in their inner selves longed to be filled. Chopin used her writings to put longings and feelings in written form on a page. The Awakening and “The Storm” opened an awareness that women and society needed to address and change for the better. Naturally, sexual feelings are something to embrace not confine. Putting restrictions on these feelings is not healthy and confines a woman to not blossom and grow. Letting a woman blossom would bring out the true beauty of her inner being. She also gave us a glimpse of possibilities when the decision of an adulterous affair is acted upon. No judgment or condemnation came from her writings. Kate did want to show that outcomes could have different collateral and consequential paths. No matter what decision has been made, the cause and effect implemented as soon as a decision has been reached. Either bad or good outcomes are one’s own personal choice. Every individual has to live with every decision acted upon. The consequences can lead an individual down a bittersweet path. To have the freedom or liberty of being one’s true self is worth the outcome. Every individual is unique and created to bloom from this uniqueness. People around us would not see the beauty the individual is meant to be unless we allow ourselves to bloom to…
Kate Chopins short story , “The Story of An Hour”, describes Mrs. Mallard as being ienslaved in an idealistic marriage during the nineteenth century. Mrs. Mallard, unlike the stereotypical women of the time, tastes the momentary sweetness of freedom when she hears the false news of her husband’s death.…
Now she has become in over her head about the boy. Her school just happens to be throwing a banquet. During the banquet, all she does is look at him, and when he glances at her she feels like she is in heaven. Towards they end of the banquet in the dark he kisses her for the enjoyment for himself. While she's getting kissed by him, her father in the meanwhile is getting worried because the banquet had ended a while ago and she had not come yet. She ends up telling her father that she was…
The short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate O’Flaherty Chopin is about a young woman who is told of her husband’s death and how, in one hour, her life was changed forever. Kate’s life was in some ways similar to that of Mrs. Mallard’s, I believe her true feelings were reflected in her many writings.…
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, was published over a century ago in 1894, but even with its age the story manages to be relevant in modern times. Upon first glance the short story is fleeting at only two pages in length and lasts for only an hour and due to this it could be seen as simple. This short story tells the tale of Louise Mallard, who has heart issues, learns from her sister Josephine that her husband, Brently Mallard was killed in train accident. Upon hearing this terrible news, she immediately started to cry before retreating to her room. In her room Louise Mallard goes through a profound awakening. Sometime later, Josephine goes and gets Louise from her room and upon going down the stairs; Louise is shocked to see her reportedly dead husband coming into their home. Mrs. Mallard suddenly dies, which doctors attributed to her heart troubles. Although at first this story seems simple, but surprisingly “The Story of an Hour” is a deep and symbolic story, full of irony and feminist themes of freedom and self awareness.…
There are many different tones, themes, characters, and symbolism in the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin explains the story of a negative view of marriage by showing the reader with a woman who is overjoyed that her husband has died, also the characters in the story itself goes through multiply changes from fear to depression to finally freedom. The lone character, who goes through the most change be far throughout the entire story is the main character Mrs. Louise Mallard. This transformation doesn’t just help change the character of Louise Mallard, further the themes of the story and solidify the tones that the author are trying to set for the story.…
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is set in a society of Puritan confinement. Not surprisingly, it contains minimal displays of affection among its characters, with only three crucial kisses depicted. Each kiss is between the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and his love child, Pearl, and accent the underlying theme of nature vs. societal repression. Each kiss represents a transfer, a clash or crossover of natural instinct and social conduct between Dimmesdale and Pearl. Each kiss stimulates developing change in the young, inhibited father and the fiery, unrefined daughter.…
Kate Chopin's The Story of the Hour tells the story of one woman's reaction to her husband's supposed death. Her friends treat her as if she is very fragile and will fall apart at the news of her husband's death. However, in private, she is joyful at the opportunity to live her life without him. Her husband though, is not really dead. This realization causes her death. The tone of this story is bittersweet, yet uplifting. Chopin demonstrates this through her use of irony in description, Louise's reaction to her husband's death, and the final line of the story.…
Kate Chopin is an American feminist fiction writer and a woman ahead of the time. Similar to the female characters in her stories, Chopin was an independent woman. She would often smoke cigarettes or walk in the streets unaccompanied; these practices were considered unusual for a nineteenth-century woman to do. “The Story of an Hour” is one of Chopin 's feministic short stories that focus on women and their views on marriage. It was published in 1894 and shows self-assertion when the protagonist, Louise Mallard, rejoices after hearing of her husband 's death. Kate Chopin, the author of “The Story of an Hour” uses symbols to expose her point about the control of women in a male-dominated society.…
The omniscient narrator of “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin immediately informs the reader that the main character, Mrs. Mallard, suffers from heart trouble thus revealing to her the tragic news of her husband has to be done with great care. Mrs. Mallard does not “hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance” but instead she wails with “wild abandonment” and steals away to be alone in her room, shunning her sister and slumping into one of her armchairs in a state of shock. Alone, she then begins to realize that she is now independent and suddenly fills up with joy. Chopin uses characterization, symbols, and setting to inspire women to seek independence and hint revolting against gender conformity or against social norms that limit women's possibilities in life.…
In Kate Chopin’s story The Kiss, a girl named Nathalie has two suitors, Brantain and Harvey. Choosing between them is difficult because Brantain is very wealthy, but she loves Harvey. She had to choose between one or the other because she could not have both. Then at her and Brantain’s wedding, Harvey comes up to her and says, “Your husband, has sent me over to kiss you.” This shows that Brantain in a way has control over Nathalie and can just send people over to kiss her. However Harvey also says to her, “I’ve stopped kissing women; it’s dangerous.” This shows that even though Nathalie thought she got exactly what she wanted, both men and the love and money, she in fact did not.…
Kate Chopin is an American author from the late 1800’s, who wrote the short story, “The Story of an Hour”. She uses a pathetic appeal to invoke her audience’s emotions. She emphasizes certain emotions to get her readers to actually feel what it is like to be relieved of being trapped in a marriage where you do not have your own free will.…