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    Homework...help needed...

    Hey guys, I was just wondering if any of you great english speakers would mind to take a quick look at this text that I wrote, it's for tomorrow so even the smallest errors I have made that you can point out will be a help to me! Also with all the grammar nazis on this forum (and other internet forums), this might be something you can throw all your frustration against, and then forgive the next guy saying "your an idiot", instead of "you're and idiot"

    Thanks in advance!

    The Story of an Hour

    “The Story of an Hour” is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1894 about how drastically one’s life can change. About how dreams you thought you were going to experience, can be shattered, and how some parts of your life, even those that only last an hour, can have a fateful significance on the rest of your life. It’s a story about how the death of someone can have a huge influence on people, no matter if it’s true or not, and about how the last resort for some people is the death. It’s a story about freedom, and about what the loss of freedom can do to people. The themes of this short story is life changing events and how even the smallest things can be the cause of great change, death and freedom.
    The main character in the short story is the heart troubled Mrs. Mallard whose husband is suspected death in a railroad disaster. The story then revolves around Mrs. Mallard’s relationship to her dead husband, and how she acts towards her newfound freedom. In the end she finds out that her husband is alive and the reality she has to cope with, changes in such a dramatic and drastic way that, as the doctors in the story state, she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills.
    Much of the information that is given to the readers in the short story about the protagonist is told through small, but important, hints through e.g. the use of symbols. The setting of the story is also extremely important, especially when you look at the central themes of the story. The reason for this is that the short story is from 1894 and, the, at that time, supposed readers (and characters in the story with the protagonist being the most important), where living in a different reality than we live in now. All of this will be a part of the analysis because of their importance to the understanding of the story.
    To understand a story, the title is most likely a very important key to open it, and will also often work as a clue as to what is going to happen. The title “The Story of an Hour” specifically could suggest a couple of things. The most obvious being that the duration of the story will only take an hour though it could also mean that this specific hour is very important and is of vital importance to the person(s) in the short story.

    Before the entire event revolving her husband’s death, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard’s relationship wasn’t very good. The face had never looked save with love upon her, means that he had always loved her, even though she didn’t love him most of the time, which means that the very basics of their relationship weren’t working. After taking some time to understand what had happened after his death, she kept whispering Free! Body and soul free!, meaning that after his death, her life might finally start.
    The story was written in 1894, before women had many rights, but still while women were starting to fight for them. So an important aspect of the story is the discrimination of women. When looking at their house, she is sitting upstairs, looking outside, at the world she can’t experience. She is captured and being oppressed even in her own house, which is a strong indication of how bad things are. The only point where she gets a chance of being herself, is when she hides in her room, but then in the instant that she leaves the room, and goes downstairs, her world, the world she imagined, is destroyed. This all indicates that it wasn’t only their relationship that wasn’t very good. The very relationship between men and women were not working.
    When Mrs. Mallard is standing at the window looking outside at the world just out of her grasp, a lot of symbolism is used. Blue patches of sky are a symbol of being free, but they are nearly covered by some clouds that could symbolize her husband. The clouds are moving away just like her husband because they are in the west, therefor making room for the blue free sky, the sun rising in the east and most importantly her new life that is waiting for her outside. The new spring life and the birds singing outside is also opposite to her former situation, where she even had to oppress her personality to satisfy her husband and the entire society holding her down.
    “The story of an Hour” is a story about young woman who is already sick (heart trouble) because of the overwhelming and discriminating demands and expectations of her husband and the society. After an hour of freedom, it gets taken away from him again, and she dies. Her death, and the reason the doctors give to her death, is at first ironic, because she actually dies because she is horrified that he is back, now the she has prepared herself for her new life, and not of joy. Maybe it wasn’t the worst thing that could happen to her though? Because finally in death she is free, free from his oppressive husband, and the expectations of a society build by men, and ruled by men.

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    Need to indent your paragraphs to start.

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    Hey Methanar,

    Yeah, it all looks a lot better in word, this is just the text But thanks anyways!

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