The Locket Analysis

There was a text excerpt by James Cross Giblin and Patricia Tobin that explained how the Riddle of the Rosetta stone went about. For hundreds of years the Rosetta Stone had went missing. The author used facts and evidence from the French, the British, on their search to find the Rosetta Stone. It is a nonfiction piece used to inform the readers of this unsolved mystery being solved.

One soldier even suggests that the locket is a lucky charm for Edmond, seeing as though he has never even gotten a scratch from battle. This foreshadowing made the ending more predictable because the story continues to lead up to Edmond’s “death” when it has already been discussed that Edmond has never been injured from battle. Though it would’ve been very ironic if Edmond were really dead because of how “lucky” the locket is; that’s not the case here. The locket was introduced to the readers as being lucky, so throughout the story it is then seen as Edmond’s good luck charm, so obviously in the end he would reveal himself as

At the conclusion of The Locket Edmond told Octavie that he didn't lose the locket but that it was stolen from him. I found the ending confusing but after reading it over I found the ending predictable. The conclusion of the locket was predictable because of three major details. The locket being stolen was predictable because the lockets description, Edmond's messmates, and Edmond's battles as a Confederate soldier. The locket was stolen for its overall value.

In the short story The Locket, it is believed that the author Chaplains writing style has kept the readers guessing throughout the story. Many would agree that the ending of the story was a shocker and few expected that conclusion. They would agree that the father-in-law proceeding with the funeral arrangements supporting the assumption the deceased person in the coffin was Edmund because he had the locket around his neck played into the authors plot twist. People would also say that the end of the story was intriguing, especially when Octavia opened the letter from the priest, returning her locket to her expressing his sorrow of the death of her husband Edmund. Only to find out at the very end Edmund was not dead and he was waiting for her at the door.

At this point Octavia was convinced that she would spend the rest of her life mourning over her dead lover. After some time Judge Pillar took Octavia to the place that she thought Edmond had died. On the ride to the site Octavia wore a black veil to cover her face that her Aunt Tavie had gotten her. She thought about how peaceful it was outside, and admired the beauty of the brush around her. She wondered how things could be so nice when such a terrible thing had happened to her

The conclusion to this short story was interesting because in the end when Octavie thought about the boy that was found with the locket, she must have been thinking about if his family would ever know what happened to him. This ending keeps me thinking about if anyone would ever know he died. This ending ties the whole story together because it shows why the author described some things vaguely such as: the soldier lying in the ground with the locket, what happened in the battle, and the “children playing”.

In Kate Chopin’s “The Locket” Edmond and Octavie are engaged during the American Civil War. Edmond is a soldier who carries a locket that has Octavie’s picture inside. Other soldiers joke that the locket is a talisman that protects him. Later, a preacher finds a dead soldier wearing the locket, which he assumes to be Edmond. Octavie is devastated by Edmond’s death after receiving a letter and the locket from the preacher. Eventually however Edmond comes back from the war; the locket was stolen by the soldier who died. Octavie is shocked and delighted by her fiancé’s return. I was surprised by this plot because I felt the same way as Octavie.

The Trent Affair has finally come to an end. Today is January 1st. James Mason and John Slidell have been released from Fort Warren in Boston, Massachusetts. This means that things are a bit calmer and there won't be a huge battle. I can rest for a few days. Today is now January 10th, some news had arisen today that the Union President Lincoln, had a meeting, in which he stated that if George McClellan, an Officer in the army who was ill at the time, won’t use the army, then he (Lincoln) will. This was not good news for the Confederates. We need to win this war, and Lincoln and his armies are in our way, defeating them is becoming more and more difficult. I heard today about the Battle of Middle Creek. Some

The Locket was a great story and I often pondered what happened to Edmond in the end. I had to reread it multiple times because it all hit me at once and I could not grasp it all. One thing said in the story that threw me off where when Edmond had a dream foreshadowing his death by the serpent. Two others where when the Priest came along and Octavia's grief. I think these where the three main key points that really helped the end be such a surprise.

The Locket captures the grief and pain that accompanies war. In the story, Octavie goes through the worst nightmare for anyone with a loved one fighting in combat - the loss of that loved one. But fortunately for her, Edmund ultimately returned. This came as a complete surprise to me as the reader due to the numerous details in the story pointing at his death, but I was ultimately relieved and happy that Edmund returned to Octavie. The details of the appearance of the soldier who actually died, the ominous tone created by the author’s prose, and the reappearance of the matching locket returned by the clergyman made the eventual return of Edmund all the more suspenseful.

The whole family had been cursed since I had lost that locket. My mother’s locket was given to me the day after she died. My mom’s best friend, the cook, had given it to me. I would wear it everywhere, and I wouldn't take it off for anything. I was very close with my mom, and we would do everything together, we would climb trees and run around outside, even if it was known as unladylike. She died last year in a car crash. I’m Marianne Maladroit and now that I've lost the locket, my family is destined to fail.

The Locket was a very interesting short story and my interest was held all the way until the very last sentence. I was very surprised with the ending. I believed Edmund was dead amongst the other soldiers on that hill. The story never explained that some men or one man escaped the ambush. So when the locket was returned to Octavie, I believed it was off of Edmond's body. It was very surprising that nobody from Edmonds family told her that he had survived or even returned until the very end.

Was I surprised by the conclusion of The Locket, during the story of The Locket a solider dies and he is wearing his lovers locket, it has a picture of her parents. But after he dies a priest finds him and gets his locket and gives it to his loved one. What happens is that she never saw a body until the same priest sees the locket and takes her to go see him. So he was never dead and Edmond and Octavia lived together happy.

To wrap up, Edmond’s inner struggles finally reached an end due to his epiphany and his newly founded ability to move

When considering knowledge, Locke is interested in the ability for us to know something, the capacity of gathering and using information and understanding the limits of what we know. He believes this also leads him to realise what we perhaps, cannot know. [1] He wants to find out about the origin of our ideas. His main stand-point is that we don’t have innate ideas and he aims to get rid of the sceptical doubt about what we know. The innate ideas which Locke sets out to argue against are those which “the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it”. [2] “Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters”. [3] This quote depicts the idea of the “Tabula Rasa”, that at birth are minds