Summary Of The Story Of An Hour

(An Analysis of three messages from The Story of an Hour) How much can you get done in an hour? About 60 minutes can go fast or slow depending upon what you are doing with your life. On some occasions it can have a million things happen at once. While on another time, nothing amazing or interesting happens. In The Story of an Hour, it shows how time can go slow and be compacted with many crazy items. This story is written by Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was a very amazing woman, she saw what love should've been. Wyatt stated, “She grew up during the Civil War and this caused her to be separated from the one friend she had” Even during her childhood she had lost the love she had, it was not something that anyone should have to go through. In her
The name of this tale is The Story of an Hour, meaning that it only lasts 60 minutes. Time flies but many emotions and actions happen in this small amount of time. There are also less than 1000 words, but somehow it is about to have death and happiness all at once. In the story it says, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease”(page 632) In this tale, the woman’s husband is dead and she becomes happy for a while but then at the end when he comes home. She gets overwhelmed, she was happy that he was gone rather than happy that he returned. It was hard to know what exactly she had done. During the Civil War, there was one battle that had many lives lost, this battle was called the Battle of Gettysburg. Adams said, “Casualties at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union... Confederate casualties were 28,063” This is about a total of 50,000 people, these people lost their lives in the span of 3 days. It was a huge number of death in such a small time
Some people will go their entire lives without truly knowing what it is like to be free. For this woman she is able to find what it feels like for about an hour, then passes. In the story she states, “Free! Body and soul free!’ She kept whispering,”(page 631) She repeated this statement multiple times, it was hard to realize that she was actually free and didn't have her horrible husband. There are others that felt this same way and they are called slaves. Even though Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, none of the slaves felt it. Crosley stated, “slaves in Texas had no knowledge of their freedom until two and a half years later.” It took two and a half years till these slaves truly felt like they were