English 2 The Storm Response Journal Kate Chopin’s “the Storm”‚ is a dark story about a quick love affair between former friends while caught up in a storm‚ while their significant others were stranded elsewhere. The story explores Calixta’s dueling relationship with her husband and her lover‚ Alcee. Chopin uses the storm as a metaphor to portray Calixta’s sexual feelings and struggles in regards to her affair. The ongoing mention of the color white symbolizes Calixta’s internal struggle with
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Chopin uses imagery as a source of absorbing the reader‚ but her imagery also exposes the emotions of the characters as well. She starts the passage off by illustrating how severe the storm was. The storm “threatened to break an entrance and deluge them there.” (135) Chopin uses the storm to play with the reader’s emotions‚ the reader can clearly visualize thick raindrops barging on top of the house to cleanse the characters. Calixta hardly noticed the storm before Alcee arrived at her doorstep seeking
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Interestingly‚ an author by the name of Kate Chopin‚ wrote a very intoxicatingly romantic short story called “The Storm”. Furthermore‚ a few interesting themes introduced in “The Storm” include: passion‚ adultery‚ and safety. Firstly‚ an interesting theme introduced in this seductive short story‚ is passion. Furthermore‚ Chopin writes about how Alcee could not contain himself around Calixta. Thusly‚ in “The Storm”‚ it shows Alcee’s lack of control by stating “The contact of her warm‚ palpitating
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Where Does the Irony Lie? : A Deeper Look into the Plotline of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (1894) Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” has been used countless of times to represent and sometimes even define the very essence of the element of fiction that is irony. As I closely examine Chopin’s thousand word short story though‚ I find faults in its plotline that make me question whether the story truly revolves around the story’s irony or if the irony is in the narrator’s tone after all
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In the story “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin‚ a girl named Desiree falls in love with a man named Armand. When Desiree was just a baby she was set on someone’s doorstep by her original family and she was growing up with the family that found her. This means that she didn’t know her ancestry so she could have been twenty five percent black. She met Armond and they wanted to get married and Desiree’s father said you don’t know her ancestry so she could be black. Armond didn’t care because he loved
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“Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography Of Critical Works (Book).” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (2000): 216. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Nov. 2015. The annotated bibliography of Kate Chopin’s works has only recently reached its heightened acceptance after her death. The world had a negative and condemning view of some of her short stories and essays. Kate had a prolific writing style that universally described the inner selves
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become an adult a endless routine will be adapt and many responsibilities along with. Many people are successful in adapting this while others are incapable of adapting and end up with an unhappy life‚ and this is the situation of the main character in the short story Sleep. She had a stable life‚ a family‚ and her own time but she was so unhappy with the lifestyle and the routine‚ that one day a nightmare completely change her life. She was the typical mother and wife and the need of attention made
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Stockings "Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin is a short story that explains the role of a stereotypical female. The main character takes care of family‚ is impulsive‚ and wants to live in luxury. The first example of stereotypes is that Mrs. Sommers took care of her family‚ she thought very hard about what she would buy her kids as soon as she got the money. She didn’t spend a second thinking of herself she just thought to take care of her children right away. The story said‚ "She lay awake‚ revolving
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You could have heard a pin drop in the silence of the delivery room. None of the nurses dared to make a sound as Megan cradled her lifeless baby in her limp arms. A stream of tears flowed from Megan’s large hazel eyes as she stared at her child. She thought about all the endless things she would have done with her daughter. She could have spoiled her by buying her pink‚ poufy outfits to dress her. The air felt thick and full of sadness. Ryan stood next to his despaired wife‚ looking over her slumped
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In the short story “Desiree’s Baby” the author‚ and feminist Kate Chopin‚ views racism to still be prevalent‚ which she reveals through the setting and actions of the characters. Armand Aubigny‚ the coldest and proudest man in Louisiana‚ married Desiree‚ a woman that was nameless‚ however she was exceptionally beautiful and breathtaking. This is significant because it unfolds Armand’s persona to be very prideful‚ and selfish that he wanted to attain Desiree as a trophy regardless of her background
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