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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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    people it is so hard to deal with that they may seek help from alcohol or even drugs. In the short story “The Rental Heart” by Kirsty Logan the protagonist deals with heartbreaks in a different way than we would see in our current world. The story ”The Rental Heart” is about a binge dating person. The story is told by a first person narrator who also is the main character of the story. The story unfolds unchronologically. It starts briefly in the presence‚ but leaps back in time in a major flashback

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    Can a person die of happiness? That’s what seems to happen in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”. Mrs. Mallard received the horrible news of her husband’s passing due to a train accident. However‚ as we read further into the story we realized that Mrs. Mallard is not that upset with her newfound freedom. But the narrative comes to a climax when Mrs. Mallard dies upon discovering that her husband is actually alive. Doctors pronounce the cause of death - “joy that kills”. It is debatable if someone could

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    Analysis of the story “Can-Can’’ by Arturo Vivante. The story under the title “Can-Can” was written by Arturo Vivante. He was born in Rome and got a medical education but left his medical practice in the mid – 1950 when his short stories began to be published. Though Vivante writes in English and has lived in America for much of the last 35 years‚ his Italian heritage has an undeniable presence in his fiction. His short stories often are read like reflections or memories of a distant and foreign

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    African Short Stories: “The Garden of Evil” by William Saidi and “The Wicked Tongue” by Mohammed Moulessehoul The stories incorporated in the book‚ Hot Days Long Nights‚ which also comprises the two stories to be studied‚ relate different scenarios and pictures of the African continent. They are compact and precise‚ giving the readers an insight to the customary laws and traditions of its people. Some of them depict the painful collective memory of wars‚ while the others narrate the story of an individual

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    Social Framing and its Cultural Influences Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‚ a Nigerian novelist states in her presentation‚ The Danger of a Single Story‚ that a “single story creates stereotypes‚ and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue‚ but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story” (The Danger of a Single Story). Briefly‚ this Ted presentation addresses the reoccurring issue in society due to media’s limitations and shortcomings. Often‚ portrayals in media

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    Updike is a short story about a young boy named Sammy. He was 19 years old and he was working at A&P mini market. One day‚ there were three girls shopping at the store wearing bikinis‚ and Sammy was surprised yet adore these three girls‚ until one day he quitted his job because he wanted to be their hero‚ but unfortunately‚ the girls didn’t even see him. John Updike was trying to describe Sammy as a typical youth who is trying to get some attention. At the beginning of the story‚ Updike didn’t really

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    Response 3 In "The Dangers of a Single Story" by‚ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‚ The speaker‚ (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)‚ explains how reading various children’s books opened her mind to how all cultures could be represented in literature. Adichie Then brings her reasoning to a broader matter of how a single story can divert our awareness of other persons. Adichie read mostly European books that she found were different from her culture‚ but when Adichie found African stories she then realized that people like

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    The short story The gift of the Magi‚ by O.Henry‚ is a story of poverty and depression and how a great love overcomes it. The conflict and the setting create the intense suspense in the story. The main conflict in the story is poverty. Della does not have enough money to buy her husband a Christmas present and Christmas was a day away. She was thinking of every possibility of how to get Jim a present. At last she decided to give up her most prized possession. In the book it says‚ “Now

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    “The Story of an Hour‚” written by Kate Chopin is a short story that uses the protagonist to show how it was for women of the nineteenth century. While using the oppression of marriage‚ gender inequality and societal fear of independence‚ Chopin addresses in her short story the stratification of females in the nineteenth century. Mrs. Mallard has a heart condition where everyone in her family perceives her as weak and feeble. She is told‚ very carefully‚ that her husband has been killed in a railroad

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