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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 husband‘s 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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    change be far throughout the entire story is the main character Mrs. Louise Mallard. This transformation doesn’t just help change the character of Louise Mallard‚ further the themes of the story and solidify the tones that the author are trying to set for the story. Of the many tones that are displayed at one point in the “The Story of an Hour” is sadness/depression. When the news of her husband Brently Mallard’s death is broken to Louise Mallard the rest of the family is frighten to tell her because

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    planning stage. In the planning stage‚ the main aims for Louise were to provide an activity which would enable her to interact with others and also buy new clothes which would improve her self-esteem and confidence. These aims were set due to the fact that Louise had mentioned previously that she did not feel like she had nice clothes and also that she felt lonely and isolated because she had no one to talk to. We met the aim of helping Louise improve her self-esteem and confidence by taking her

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    in the life of Louise Mallard‚ tragically ending with her death. The doctors arrive announcing the cause of death heart disease---of a joy that kills. The first line of this short story originally diagnoses Louise with only a “heart trouble” and yet in the expanse of one hour she is dead supposedly from joy at seeing her husband alive as the last words of the story led the reader to believe. Or ironically is it death from almost obtaining joyous freedom and independence? Louise Mallard was told

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    Abdullrahman Al - Abdulghani HUM205 Film Deliberation #04 Rear window ( 1954 ) Director : Alfred Hitchcock Stars : James Stewart ‚ Grace Kelly ‚ Thelma Ritter ‚ Raymond Burr The movie talks about an injured photographer who is stuck in his apartment and all what he can do is look at his neighbors throat his rear window where he noticed that the neighbors wife disappeared so he start to prove that his neighbor killed his wife . In the scene where Jeff calls Thorwald as the phone

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    From your reading of the novel so far discuss the relationship between Scobie and his wife Louise. As from the beginning of the novel‚ it becomes quite clear that what Scobie feels for his wife Louise is not really love but a sense of pity and responsibility. Louise has grown to love Scobie over the years‚ but Scobie has not had the same feeling towards her. Louise understands that side of him and accepts that his ‘ I love you’s ‘are empty hearted. His sens of love towards her is more of an

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    pattern and thought process of Louise Mallard after she is informed of her husband’s death are explored. Over the course of the hour in which the story takes place Louise has a realization about the constraints she feels in her life and in her marriage. By delineating Louise as a flat and dynamic character‚ Chopin is able to convey her theme that real freedom is found in death. Over the course of the story‚ all the characters are left as fairly flat and undeveloped. Louise is simply described as a young

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    their husband. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ Louise Mallard was married to Brently Mallard who had never looked save with love upon her. Even though he loved her‚ he was controlling‚ there would be no powerful will bending hers. Many marriages during this time period were like this. Because Brently was controlling‚ Louise was unhappy in the marriage. Louise was internally conflicted due to this unhappy marriage. The turmoil Louise was oppressed with after her husband’s death was that

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    story emerge to play important roles in the life of this young woman with heart trouble in the film. Louise along with the other characters has changed drastically in the transition to celluloid. The filmmakers in trying to make a more appealing movie have forgotten the story they were supposed to be telling. Louise has turned into a little girl that must depend on man to take care of her. Louise pleads with Brently to go to the gardens of Paris. She begs like a child begging for something that

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