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The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin. Jennifer Corona Erik Jureack Shea Kopp. haha, get it? Hour? Time? CLOCKS?!. Thesis or Claim. The lack of independence and the social standing of women The unstable structure of family Women having jobs – Industrial Revolution

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The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin

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  1. The Story of an HourKate Chopin Jennifer Corona Erik Jureack Shea Kopp haha, get it? Hour? Time? CLOCKS?!

  2. Thesis or Claim • The lack of independence and the social standing of women • The unstable structure of family • Women having jobs – Industrial Revolution • Complete change in social structure of the society of the day Francis Willard!

  3. Tone or Attitude • Beginning • She learns of her husband’s death and is sad, but then… • Middle • Mrs. Mallard’s perspective on life opens up and she feels FREE, portraying a joyous tone • End • Shock (surprise) kills her Francis Willard!

  4. Purpose • To show how women are restrained by the pseudo-power trip of the male population • Feminist publication • Expression of women’s want for equal rights and freedom Francis Willard!

  5. Audience & Occasion • Chopin was trying to portray her liberal views of women’s rights to economic, social, and political equality • Progressive Era – a time for the expression of radical liberal ideas Francis Willard!

  6. Evidence or Data • “And yet she had loved him – sometimes. Often she had not” • Weak Structure of family • “There would be no powerful will bending hers.” • Made it more evident that she hadn’t been seen as an equal to men Francis Willard!

  7. Appeals • Logos (Logic) • During the middle, when she’s analyzing her future possibilities of freedom • Ethos (Ethics) • Believed women are equal to men • Pathos (Emotion) • Feminist – appeals to liberal female population Francis Willard!

  8. Assumption • Assumptions • Women were inferior to men in every way possible • Women cannot work • Bounded by the constraints of men Francis Willard!

  9. Style • Diction - uses a higher level of vocabulary; higher than what would be expected of a woman in the day • Syntax – Third person narrative Francis Willard!

  10. THE END!!!!!

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