Imagine your husband dying in a train crash. You don’t know whether to be sad because he is dead or happy because you are free. Your marriage was miserable and now you are free. That is what happened to the main character Louise Mallard in the short story “The Story of an Hour.” In this short story by Kate Chopin blue skies, open windows are huge symbols.
First of all, in the story the open window symbolizes new beginnings. After Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband Brently Mallard dies she sits in front of an open window and yells “free, free, free”. She yelled that because her husband was dead and she was happy she was finally free. She didn’t have to be in her unhappy marriage anymore. In this short story, Louise and Brently’s last name happens to be mallard. A mallard is a type of duck that is bound to its mate for the rest of its life. Mrs. Mallard couldn’t divorce Mr. Mallard and she had to stay in her terrible marriage.
The open window symbolizes freedom, but when she looks out the open window she sees blue skies that symbolize happiness. Louise doesn’t have to deal with her husband anymore. Now she can do whatever she wants. When there are blue skies that usually means that it is a nice day, a day of happiness and glee. Louise is unhappy with her marriage, so when she becomes a widow after her husband dies a symbol of her happiness is the blue skies.
Some huge symbols in the short story are blue skies and an open window. Kate Chopin had a hard life and some events in her life probably influenced how she wrote this story. She wrote this story in 1894, just 2 years after her husband died and left her with 12,000 dollars in debt. That was a lot of money back then, and she was probably mad at her husband when she wrote this story. That is why the main character Louise in the story loathed her husband, and was happy when he died.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Short Story
Dells Story
As you walk up the stairs your heart pumps, you are about to ride the biggest rollercoaster in the Wisconsin dells. Your best friend Lucy is shaking next to you. She is just as nervous as you are. You inch closer and closer to the front of the line, and the closer you get the more you think about going back and not riding this rollercoaster. Finally after 51 nerve-racking minutes you get to the front of the line, and the creepy man taking tickets is smiling at you. Then suddenly a man that had just gotten off the ride staggered past you, trying to get to a garbage can before he puked. “Let’s not go on this ride and go on a different ride instead” said Lucy.
“ No we have been waiting for too long to just leave let’s just go on the ride” I said. So we got into the seat, and the bar came down. We were the only 14 year olds there. The rest of the passengers were like 10 years older than us.
As people were boarding the rest of the cars Lucy said “I have a bad feeling about this look ahead of us.”
“Whoa” I said as I look forward, there were 3 loop de loops and then a hill so high I couldn’t see the top because of the clouds. Then I saw something really terrifying, there were barf bags in front of us. “It almost like they expect up to puke” said Lucy.
Then the rollercoaster started to inch forward, and my heart skipped a beat. As go we go around the first loop I am already feeling nauseous. “I don’t feel so well” said Lucy, and then suddenly she pukes into the barf bag. Then we start to go up the gia nt hill slowly. Lucy was hyperventilating and I looked down and I could barely see the ground. The people that were on the ground looked like little ants they were so small. Finally we got to the top, and on the roller coaster track there was a little flat part before you would go down the hill. Then the coaster started to slow down and then eventually stop.
“I think we are stuck” I said, and then suddenly everyone was paralyzed. We couldn’t even see the ground! Nobody knew we were up there, and everyone thought we would all die. We sat there in silence then suddenly someone realized they had their cell phones. So they try to call 911 to come help them, but then someone pushed the car a little bit, and the phone flew out of their hand. We watched it as it as it plummeted toward the ground. Finally the people on the ground realized we were stuck, but they couldn’ t get us down we were so high.
“Help” said the guy in the front car, but his efforts were useless and no one could hear him. Then the same guy that thought the people could hear him if he yelled help suggested that he get out and push the cars. He got out and started to try to push it and it started to inch forward. We all helped the cars and he jumped in, and the cars plummeted down the huge hill. It was breath- taking how fast we went. When we finally got to the end, everyone was so happy to see us.
“I can’t believe we made it back I thought we were going to die” said Lucy.
“Yea let’s never go on that roller coaster ever again”. I said. Then, the reporters showed up, and everyone wanted to talk to us. It was the scariest moment of my life, but everything turned out good.
As you walk up the stairs your heart pumps, you are about to ride the biggest rollercoaster in the Wisconsin dells. Your best friend Lucy is shaking next to you. She is just as nervous as you are. You inch closer and closer to the front of the line, and the closer you get the more you think about going back and not riding this rollercoaster. Finally after 51 nerve-racking minutes you get to the front of the line, and the creepy man taking tickets is smiling at you. Then suddenly a man that had just gotten off the ride staggered past you, trying to get to a garbage can before he puked. “Let’s not go on this ride and go on a different ride instead” said Lucy.
“ No we have been waiting for too long to just leave let’s just go on the ride” I said. So we got into the seat, and the bar came down. We were the only 14 year olds there. The rest of the passengers were like 10 years older than us.
As people were boarding the rest of the cars Lucy said “I have a bad feeling about this look ahead of us.”
“Whoa” I said as I look forward, there were 3 loop de loops and then a hill so high I couldn’t see the top because of the clouds. Then I saw something really terrifying, there were barf bags in front of us. “It almost like they expect up to puke” said Lucy.
Then the rollercoaster started to inch forward, and my heart skipped a beat. As go we go around the first loop I am already feeling nauseous. “I don’t feel so well” said Lucy, and then suddenly she pukes into the barf bag. Then we start to go up the gia nt hill slowly. Lucy was hyperventilating and I looked down and I could barely see the ground. The people that were on the ground looked like little ants they were so small. Finally we got to the top, and on the roller coaster track there was a little flat part before you would go down the hill. Then the coaster started to slow down and then eventually stop.
“I think we are stuck” I said, and then suddenly everyone was paralyzed. We couldn’t even see the ground! Nobody knew we were up there, and everyone thought we would all die. We sat there in silence then suddenly someone realized they had their cell phones. So they try to call 911 to come help them, but then someone pushed the car a little bit, and the phone flew out of their hand. We watched it as it as it plummeted toward the ground. Finally the people on the ground realized we were stuck, but they couldn’ t get us down we were so high.
“Help” said the guy in the front car, but his efforts were useless and no one could hear him. Then the same guy that thought the people could hear him if he yelled help suggested that he get out and push the cars. He got out and started to try to push it and it started to inch forward. We all helped the cars and he jumped in, and the cars plummeted down the huge hill. It was breath- taking how fast we went. When we finally got to the end, everyone was so happy to see us.
“I can’t believe we made it back I thought we were going to die” said Lucy.
“Yea let’s never go on that roller coaster ever again”. I said. Then, the reporters showed up, and everyone wanted to talk to us. It was the scariest moment of my life, but everything turned out good.
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