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    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

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    In “The Story of an Hour”‚ Kate Chopin clearly displays a negative perspective of marriage by showing us a married woman who is overjoyed when she thinks her husband has passed away in an accident. Throughout the story‚ you can see that she doesn’t love her husband and she’s okay with the fact that her husband is dead. On page 762‚ second to last paragraph‚ Chopin describes her feelings as “monstrous joy”‚ which matches her emotions at this point. I find that word choice very interesting because

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    Tone of Chopin’s The Story of an Hour 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

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    A True War Story

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    A true war story is always about what happened in your perspective‚ how you saw the events as the storyteller and the emotion you felt as the reader or listener. It is not about the events that occured. A true war story is to make the person listening or reading feel the true emotions of what war felt like to the people involved‚ especially the storyteller. We convey true stories by sharing it on the news‚ one way an artist would do this is they differentiate the facts from experience. They show

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    It was said by more than one author that the ‘golden age’ of the short story was the 1920s‚ and that although varied publications remain (The New Yorker‚ Myslexia‚ The Woman’s Weekly)‚ there is little opportunity in the modern age for the short story writer. Was this‚ as Kurt Vonnegut argued the result of television? Vonnegut claimed: When I started out it was possible to make a living as a freelance writer of fiction…because it was still the golden age of magazines‚ and it looked as though

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    History of Short Story

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    The Short Story History: as a form dates back to the oral tradition of the tale written tales emerge in poetic forms - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Boccaccio’s Decameron (1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form‚ as is the French translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1704) short story really begins to emerge as a form in the 19th century Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short

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    Toy Story

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    Toy Story I believe you presented Toy Story to us to show the personalities of the toys are a lot more complex and for the class to relate what we have been learning in class. The film uses a constructed text in order to put across a theme of two very different characters learning to work together beyond their rivalries to rise above a common enemy and work towards a common goal. I believe the team work that Woody and Buzz created can be applied to how two different people can work together to achieve

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    The Lottery Short Story

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    In 1948 there was a short story published in The New Yorker Magazine By Shirly Jackson. called The Lottery. The Lottery is a fiction story. On June 27‚ it was a clear sunny morning. It is 10am and the village. They gathered for the lottery. There was only 300 people in the town gathering. The lottery takes place at town square by the bank and the post office. The village is big into farming. At 10 o’clock the lottery starts. The head of the household draws by name in alphabetical order. All of the

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    SHORT STORY PAPER “Compare/contrast Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’ with ‘A rose for Emily’ in terms of writing style and character presentation.” What is going to be analyzed in this paper are the two short stories by W. Faulkner ‘A Rose for Emily’ and ‘Dry September’. Basically‚ what is to be performed is a comparison/contrast analysis in terms of the writing style and character presentation. More specifically‚ I will provide

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    Story Of An Hour Theme

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    “The Story of an Hour” The theme of “The Story of an Hour” to me is sad‚ there is a moment of joy‚ also there is confusion in the story. I think it’s sad because there is death in the story. Nobody likes death! Mrs. Mallard has a moment of joy‚ she feels free. She has freedom from her husband’s death. I find it also confusing how Mrs. Mallard celebrated her husband’s death. She didn’t seem sad one bit. I feel these are the reasons these are the themes of “The Story of an Hour” In “The Story

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