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    that not society. Gender issues have come so far since then and things like voting and working are not even an issue‚ in America at least. After reading Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour the student of English can better understand how big of an impact gender had on a person’s life by seeing how happy Louise was at the thought of freedom. Kate Chopin is an American author who lived from 1850-1904‚ this was part of the Victorian era. She wrote a lot about sensitive‚ intelligent woman. She was French

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    theory is a huge topic with authors who also want to voice their opinion on the matter. One of these authors being the writer of The Awakening‚ Kate Chopin. Through her writing‚ Chopin expresses her view by taking on the aspect of the female social class‚ and of how different it is treated within the two theorized sociological settings.      During her time‚ Chopin was part of a highly detested group whose focus was mainly on that of

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    Kate Chopin portrays realism in her three short stories: "Regret‚" "The Story of an Hour‚" and “The Storm.” The author makes her fictional work to represent stark of realities in life. The author uses symbols of forthcoming change‚ heart trouble‚ and emotional response in the short stories. She tries to find her identity in the stories. She depicts unconventional issues that women were going through during that time. She highlights that women were bound by conventional domesticity and took care of

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    An Essay on “The Storm” by Kate Chopin “Infants have their infancy; adults‚ adultery.” ― David Philip Barash. In her story “The Storm” Kate Chopin not only creates the perfect environment for an adulterous affair but also uses the plot as a symbol of the affair. The story takes place in late 1800’s or early 1900’s. The story is about the extramarital affair between Calixta‚ mother of a young boy Bibi and wife to Bobinot‚ and Alcee‚ husband to Clarisse‚ during a horrific storm. The storm in this story

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    Jarrod Padgett  English Composition II  Monday and Wednesday 1:50 ­ 2:55    Discussing “The Storm”                                            Padgett 1  Despite an extremely reserved society in the late 1800’s‚ Kate Chopin wrote many  scandalous stories expressing sexuality and independence in woman. Kate Chopin’s style of  literature was about a century premature‚ and had to wait about seven decades to be published by  a more accepting audience. “The Storm” like much of her work‚ featured a woman and man 

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    Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that tells of the feelings and thoughts of Louise Mallard after she learns of her husband’s death. When the story starts the readers already know of a tragic event that has happened‚ and the characters have no idea. This is because of the POV that Chopin wrote the story in. This story is told in the third person point of view‚ and because of this it makes the story a lot more dramatic but understandable. If the story would have been told in the

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    not? The American author Kate Chopin gave an example of those independent women in her short story "Regret". In the story‚ a woman called Mamzelle Aurelie lived alone in her farm. She has never got married and never had children. But one day the silence in Aurelie’s life was broken as she carried the burden of looking after her neighbor’s four children for two weeks. One might ask how could she manage to take care of these children since she never had one? In the story Chopin describes the difficulties

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    response after openly experiencing some form of the literature. I have chosen to blend the reader’s response and formalist to criticize the story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. She is always able to capture the reader’s attention and never lets it go throughout the entire story. In the story‚ “The Story of an Hour”‚ Kate Chopin (1984) captures the readers attention with just a very few lines at the beginning of the story. She sets a suspenseful mood that leaves the reader wanting to know more

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    The short story “The Storm” Kate Chopin explains in great depth the emotions that take place during the storm. Even though Calixta was not worried when it first started to storm‚ she did start to get worried has the storm got worst. M’isieur Alcee helped comfort her‚ he hugged her and tried to get her mind off the storm in the short story “The Storm” Kate Chopin uses symbolism and point of the view to show that even when a mistake is made in a marriage‚ it does not mean it always ends. First‚

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    In the story "Desiree’s Baby" by Kate Chopin‚ the character of Armand Aubigny follows the views of society by caring a lot about race. Perturbed by the characteristics of his son‚ he believes that the infant carries the genes of a person of mixed race. Armand blames his wife Desiree‚ accusing her of not being white‚ believing that she is the reason that caused the infant to inherit those traits. Armand cites the fact that she was adopted‚ which means that her past is unknown. "He no longer loved

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