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    Analysis of Hemingway’s Narrative Technique as a Short- Story Writer For many years‚ the narrative technique of Hemingway has been under debate. Writers before him had already achieved works that bear the characteristics of the modern short story‚ and many of their works could stand today‚ with those of Hemingway and of writers like Faulkner‚ as representative short stories of modern times. What distinguishes Hemingway both from his predecessors and from his contemporaries‚ however‚ is the theory

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    GREAT LAKES INVADERS MALLARD DUCK PHYSICAL NITCH GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION The male Mallard duck has a green head separated with a white line under it. The female has no green at all. The female is mottled brown color.The male and female bills are also different. Mallard ducks have a slight streak of blue along their wings. Mallard ducks range from 20-28 inches in length. Their wings have a wingspan of 3 feet to help them fly well and fly south to migrate.Mallard ducks

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    October 8‚ 2012 The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber both captured my interest from the very beginning. These short stories represents gender roles and marriage. They both are about married couples with controlling mates. “The Story of an Hour” is about a young married woman and how she reacts to the news of her husband dying in a tragic train accident. The story takes place in

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    Criminals Should Be Punished Or Not Debate criminals deserve to be punished. Most of the people would not hesitate to claim that those who break the law should be punished ans]d put into prison as long as possible in case they continue to endager our lives and property. Also‚ if criminals are not given any punishment they may commit crimes again and again.Crime in general is the worst thing a person can do because it violates the law and it is a violation against the victims.Therefore‚ to protect

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    Fred Isaacs Dr. Catherine Packard ENG 122 O September 27‚ 2012 Analysis of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” In “The Story of an Hour” the narration presents a view of a young wife who‚ upon receiving news of her husband’s death‚ experiences a shifting conflict of emotions. The author interprets the suspension of the character’s passive stoicism‚ briefly illuminating a future without restraints. It is revealed immediately in the narrative that the young woman has “a heart trouble” (Chopin

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    Kate Chopin was a novelist and American short story writer. In 1894‚ Chopin wrote a particularly intriguing short story‚ The Story of an Hour‚ about a woman who was trying to escape society’s judgemental image of women. In Chopin’s story‚ Louise Mallard‚ the protagonist‚ feels distressed and restricted because of the expectations society holds for women as subordinate to men. When the protagonist’s

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    of liberty. People need this feeling because it makes them feel independent and they have total control of their own lives. Furthermore it leads them to become more courageous and lets them live for themselves and nobody else. At first when Ms. Mallard hears the news about her husband’s death she is shocked and in great pain because of the loss. But after giving it another thought‚ she realized that a lot of pressure has just been taken off of her shoulders. “Free‚ Body and soul free” (page 1).

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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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    fictional novels; and by doing so‚ she became very successful. Chopin frequently used feminism in her writing; she was known as a feminist author. (Clark‚ 2016). She has written many short stories that are well known in the world of literature today. Throughout “The Story of an Hour‚” Kate Chopin uses both irony and

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    In “The Story of An Hour”‚ the author‚ Kate Chopin‚ portrays Louise Mallard as an oppressed woman. The narrative starts by insinuating that Mrs. Mallard is weak. “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble‚ great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.”(1) A normal reaction to death would be to grieve and be upset‚ but Louise was said to need help and was not stable enough to take the news without “great care”. The contrast of Mrs. Mallard

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