The Storm And The Story Of An Hour

The author’s frightening story, “The Storm” has all the expected things that a good scary story should have. It has a story line that gains suspense throughout the story, there is irony, and there is lots of

The narrator is reliable and the point of view of the story is in third person omniscient. The narrator tells us what all the characters like Millicent are saying, doing, or thinking, causing readers to be able to grasp a deeper understanding of everything happening around them.

Kate Chopin wrote the short story “The Storm” one of her most bold stories and did not even intention to publish it (Cutter 191). The two main characters in the story are Calixta and Alcee. They both used to be attracted to one another in previous years, but now they are both married to someone else. After Alcee arrives to Calixta’s house looking for shelter they are driven into a passionate moment. In the story “The Storm” the storm has a significant meaning; without it the affair of Calixta and Alcee performed would not have been as powerful as it was between them. “The Storm” has a great deal of symbolism throughout the story: the clouds, the use of color white, the storm relative to the affair, the after effects of the affair, Calixta,

The point of view in the story is the third person because there is a narrator who

As I was reading the sample essay "The Storm We Couldn't Escape" I noticed that he used four out of the five senses, such as sight, sound, smell, and touch. For instance, the author used the sense of sight in great detail to describe the setting. The author mentioned how the dark gray storm clouds swallowed up the sun, how it started to rain as it grew more intense, the power going out leaving them with no electricity, the funnel cloud ripping through the field as it tore up the ground, and the cellar doors that were bound with a thick metal chain wrapped around the handles. The author then used the sense of sound. The author mentioned how the rain sounded as if someone was beating on his home with a couple of gigantic drumsticks, how the pounding

Can the point of view in which a story is told really change its plot? When reading a story in the first person compared to the third person, one will have two different outlooks on the story. A story being told in the first person can be unreliable at points. It allows you to get inside the protagonists head and know what they are thinking, but you are only limited to their thoughts. While a story told in the third person gives you a little more freedom, you wont be limited to only one thought. “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson and “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin are both told in the third person, which creates an interesting twist. Conversely, two stories that make you think and wonder,

At the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard, located in the lower 9th ward, the soldiers were not yet aware that the canal levees were giving way. The Guard’s commander

Another characteristic is the different points of view, such as: Omniscient Narration and Limited Narration. Omniscient point of view provides readers with knowledge about all characters, as well as past and future events. Limited point of view allows readers to access the thoughts of the main characters of the story. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, is a great example of third-person Omniscient narration. The narrator knows about all of the events of the story but is removed from the action. The narrator can also relate thoughts and motives.

Kate Chopin implies in the selection, "The Storm" that the setting and the plot reinforces each character's action, but only two characters exemplify the title itself, Calixta and Alcee. The storm becomes the central element of Alcee's unrequited love for Calixta and ultimately the instrument of their forbidden love to each other. Hurston concurs in the "The Storm" that a forbidden relationship can become a cancerous love and silent death sentence.

The theme of a story is whatever general idea or insight the entire story reveals (Kennedy and Goia). In “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin, the theme is repression and freedom. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the theme of the story is being proud of your heritage or your background. In “The Storm”, by Kate Chopin, the theme is finding happiness or comfort in other things.

The point of view of a narrator can make or break a story, as the narrator is extremely important to the reader's understanding of a story. Different points of view and different narrators can oftentimes affect the point the story is attempting to portray and it even change what the reader believes the story is about. If someone were to go through a story written in a first-person narrative story and change all the pronouns to a third-person point of view, or even a first person plural point of view, it can distort the way the reader understands and comprehends the story.

It plays a big role on how the novel is illustrated, making it very significant to the readers. The author wrote it into a third person perspective. There are numerous pros and cons of having a third person perspective. The novel is written as limited, which only allows Jacob’s thoughts and ideas to be expressed. This is important to notice in the novel because the readers can only see Jacob’s perspective. The story doesn’t show the other characters’ perspective so the readers have to consider and understand their concept. For instance, the affection that Jacob feels towards Rosie and Marlena is freely explicated in the novel. However, Rosie’s and Marlena’s perspectives were never clearly stated in detailed look unlike Jacob’s. Nowadays, it is very common to find a literature piece in a third person point of view. Authors find it much easier to narrate story when it comes to telling a story just in the limited perspective. As the readers, people should admire the point of view of the work because it helps them learn to have sympathy on the

Feminist American author, Kate Chopin, is known for her stories with strong and daring female lead stories. Her common themes display women, femininity, marriage, liberation, oppression, and perseverance. The Louisiana based novelist famous works started the feminist movement. Chopin’s stories The Story of an Hour and The Storm have many similarities and differences as do the majority of her work. The main characters, Calixta and Mrs. Mallard, both portray an odd attitude towards marriage.

A woman's happiness and success during this era is often dependant on the male or husband of the marriage. During this era, Chopin displays to us in both her short stories "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour" of how reliant women are in their relationship and lives. Women during this era were heavily looked down upon. They were looked so down upon that even the women themselves would look down on themselves resulting in more reliant on the men for their success in life. The women during this time era would be so reliant on men they would do much for the men despite whether they had loved him or not. Chopin many times wrote her short stories with women in marriage with men just for the benefits of living and success rather than love; a “vignettte exploring female desires that cannot be fulfilled in marriage, a common theme for Chopin.” (Brantley 1). During the 19th century, both men and women weren't seen as equal at all. Another push to being reliant on men is government rules and policies of men being the more stronger party of the marriage, relationship, or family. Men were seen as the “better” sex so then women were more reliant. Women had to depend on men to supply them in order to live a healthy lifestyle. Kate Chopin displays this highly in her two short stories as the two women seem really reliant on their male counterpart. The two women shows signs of weakness while their male counterpart were away.

Peter stood surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air he was full of happiness and joy unlike most people in the Storm,