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    The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is about this girl names Mrs. Millard‚ she is married to this guy and she has a weak heart. Well she gets this news that her husband had died in a car accident and she is suppose to be upset. She goes upstairs to her room and stares out the window and looks up at the clouds and notices that she is suppose to be sad and depressed but she is sitting there thinking and realizes that she is not that upset. She starts to look at the good outcome of this and says the

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    Chopin’s story‚ "The Story of an Hour" is an ironic short story of a wife in the late 1800’s. The story is only a few pages long and in doing so Chopin writes a story filled with kernel’s (events that have important causal chronological coherence) with very few satellite’s (events not logically essential to the narrative action). There were no satellites that I could find while reading the text; I found every word written essential to the narrative‚ the progression and the conclusion of the story.

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    Joy That Kills How would one react to finding out their husband has just died? In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ wife Louise Mallard is told that her husband has been killed. At first Louise is shocked until she retires upstairs where she encounters many different emotions and even an epiphany. But at the end of the story the husband walks in the door . . . alive. The sudden shock of seeing her husband alive ends up killing her. Louise’s personality and actions leading up to‚ during

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    “The Story of An Hour” focuses on sixty minutes in the life of a young nineteenth-century woman‚ Mrs. Mallard. Upon learning of her husband’s death‚ Mrs. Mallard experiences an epiphany about her future without a husband. Her life‚ due to heart problems‚ suddenly ends after she unexpectedly finds out her husband is actually alive. Mrs. Mallard’s actions cause the reader to cogitate a hidden meaning weaved into Kate‘s short story. Chopin had an idea that women felt confined in their marriages‚ and

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    Kate once qouted approvingly‚that there should be an eleventh commandement-thou shalt not preach‚a commandment she obeyed throughout her work.She wrote a particular truth woithout judgement or censure.The Story of an Hour is one such piece of work‚a short story about a Mrs Mallard.The story isnt didactic‚and in its simplicity‚may not seem so heavily imbued with meaning‚much less a social critique.However‚heaviliy loaded with simbolism‚an alert reader will notice how Kate cleverly brings to fore

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    English 102 09‚ February 2012 Freedom and Confinement In “The Story of an Hour”‚ Kate Chopin showed how even the news of someone else’s death‚ if told the wrong way‚ can be lethal. Louis Mallard was described as a woman who has heart troubles. Louis’s sister told her‚ her husband has died in a railroad disaster. At first Louis was overwhelmed with sadness and despair‚ but after crying for some time‚ she begins to imagine the years ahead; on her own without anyone to oppress her. She is overjoyed

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    The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a World’s Fair held in Paris‚ France from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was held during the year of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille‚ an event traditionally considered as the symbol for the beginning of the French Revolution. The fair included a reconstruction of the Bastille and its surrounding neighborhood‚ but with the interior courtyard covered with a blue ceiling decorated with fleur-de-lys and used as a ball room and gathering place

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    The story is narrated in a first person point of view by a puppy who speaks about his mother. He only states his opinion on her at the very end. His mother is the center of his attention throughout the narration and he rarely says things such as " of course i said nothing " to address himself. We do not learn his name or if he believed his mother was in the wrong. He only defends her at the end of the passage showing a small spark of an opinion towards her. 2. The puppy who narrates the story is

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    The Awakening‚ The Story of an Hour and Desiree’s Baby By: Destiny Frye Title The Awakening: The novel was titled “The Awakening‚” because the main character Edna Pontellier goes through a series of liberations that cause her to “awaken” or become aware of her The Story of an Hour: The title refers to the actual duration of the story. All the events that take place in the story can happen in the time frame of an hour. Desiree’s Baby: The title refers to one of the main characters‚ Armand

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    Nelson Rummage. Engaging Exposition. Nashville‚ Tenn.: B & H Academic‚ 2011. The authors of Engaging Exposition believe that expository preaching is the foundational element in the health of a church. Many churches today are suffering due to the lack of Biblical preaching. Understanding the need for expository preaching‚ three modern expositors have developed a three dimensional approach to expository preaching: Discovery‚ Development‚ and Delivery. Engaging Exposition walks the reader through

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