Colonel Weber‚ who is a U.S. Army officer‚ recruits Louise Banks who is a linguistic expert and physicist Ian Donnelly to discover why they have landed on Earth. He takes them to a camp near one of the spacecrafts. Louise and Ian start discovering their purpose of coming on Earth by understanding their written language. As Louise is communicating with them through their language‚ she starts to have flashbacks of her unborn daughter Hannah. Finally Louise get succeed to understand their language and find
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opposite. In The Story of an Hour‚ Louise says that her husband Brently is kind to her‚ yet she loves him sometimes. This is ironic because Louise states that she loves her husband only sometimes despite Brently being a kind husband. It is impossible to love a person sometimes because love is an intense feeling of deep affection; loving someone sometimes only means that person doesn’t love the other person at all. Another example of irony in the story is the fact that Louise is young and alive‚ yet young
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(Lakoff 627) If the two genders do communicate in the same way‚ there is bound to be serious conflict that usually involves violence. The movie Thelma and Louise tells the story of two women who have run away from their traditional roles as women. They have been put under too much pressure from society and especially men. Both Thelma and Louise feel a need to change their position in society and they do it by changing the way they communicate. This change in communication between men and women causes
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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 immediately started to cry before retreating to her room. In her room Louise Mallard goes through a profound awakening. Sometime later‚ Josephine goes and gets Louise from her room and upon going down the stairs; Louise is shocked to see her reportedly dead husband coming into
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Shakespeare portrayed John of Gaunt and King Richard III the way he did because of the political issues and constraints presented to him during his time period. When writing Queen Margaret of Anjou’s role in Richard III‚ however‚ Shakespeare degraded her political influence and public figure because of the social norms and superstitions that confined women under during the Elizabethan era. Yet‚ according to modern-day historian Jacob Abbott‚ there was more to Margaret than Shakespeare told his readers
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throughout history. The story itself presents a valid argument in favor of Louise as she is portrayed as the oppressed wife finally set free after her husband’s death. In the beginning of "The Story of an Hour‚" Mrs. Mallard is just a typical wife. It is not until she hears of her husband’s death that she then simply becomes Louise‚ now an individual‚ no longer overshadowed by her husband. Following her husband’s death‚ Louise feels she will no longer suffer a "powerful will bending her" (14)‚ thus
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In “the story of an hour‚” author Kate Chopin develops the main character Louise Mallard initially as a submissive young spouse. Then the author develops the characterization of Louise Mallard‚ through her diction and imagery‚ into an empowered‚ freed “widow.” The diction used by the author is crucial to the development of the story. In the opening line the author refers to the main character as “Mrs. Mallard‚” and states that she is “afflicted with a weak heart. These choices of diction imply
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Elizabeth Bowen tells the story of the young woman Louise who is going to shift to France as it is the place where her husband Charles works and lives. The story takes place on the morning of her depature in the White House which is the home of Charles’ family and Louise isn’t happy about herself joining Charles in France. Even though Charles isn’t the protagonist of the story and doesn’t interact at all‚ he is present throughout the whole story. Louise constantly thinks about him and how it is going
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much. It’s kind of ironic.” Whether it means giving a speech in front of an audience or dancing on a stage‚ no one likes it. However‚ in the novel‚ The Flamingo Rising‚ Larry Baker introduces Louise‚ a different type of person that will do anything to be the center of attention. In Larry Baker’s novel‚ Louise and her brother‚ Abraham Isaac‚ start their first day at school at the age of twelve. Louise’s limp becomes obvious because she is nervous. As the class stares at her‚ she overcomes this nervousness
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delicately to Louise‚ for she is "afflicted with a heart trouble" (362) and any distress may worsen her pre-existing condition. However‚ after hearing of her husbands tragic death‚ Louise spends time in her room basking in illustrious liberation; "spring days‚ and summer days‚ and all sorts of days would be her own" (363). To show the oppression Mrs. Mallard experiences‚ the
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