1. The Story of an Hour
Erin Fuller

2. How does point of view help us understand the meaning of the story better?
How does the overall theme of the story reflect the rising radical thoughts of the time?
What effect does the final fate of Mrs. Mallard have on the significance of the overall meaning of the story?
Essential Questions

3. Kate Chopin Turn to pg. 626 in your textbook
Kate Chopin was born in 1850 in St. Louis Missouri
She was married to Oscar Chopin who was a cotton trader
Her husband died in 1882
She was a Feminist and those values she held appeared in her writing
Themes in her writing: The nature of marriage, racial prejudice, and women’s desire for equality
Kate Chopin

4. Important History Written during the Realist Period of Literature
Women’s Rights laws did not exists yet
Rejected by two magazines because the leading female character was too independent and unhappy
Despite this, Chopin continued to write stories about women growth and emancipation
Important History

5. Vocabulary In Text Vocab… Forestall: Prevent by acting ahead of time
Repression: Restraint
Elusive: hard to grasp
Tumultuously: in an agitated way
Elixir of Life: Imaginary substance believed in medieval times to prolong life indefinitely

6. Irony: Contrast between what is stated and what is meant.
Verbal Irony: word or phrase used to suggest opposite meaning
Dramatic Irony: Contradiction between what the character thinks and what the reader or audience knows.
Situational Irony: Event that contradicts expectations
Motif: Recurring symbol that appears repeatedly in a story, usually has more than one meaning
Point of View: the perspective, or vantage point, from which the story is told
First-person: narrator refers to himself as I or me
Omniscient Third-Person: the Narrator knows and tells what each character is feeling and thinking
Limited Third-Person: Narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character
Literary Vocab..

7. The Hourglass The Hourglass is the Motif
The Hourglass represents: the female form, point of view, time
The Hourglass

8. Point of View Omniscient Third Person: First Person Point of View:
We know Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble
We now about Mr. Richards
At the end of the story we know what the characters all believe about Mrs. Mallard
First Person Point of View:
When Mrs. Mallard goes into the upstairs room we only know what she is thinking
Point of View

9. Dramatic Irony
The readers know that Mrs. Mallard feels relived that her husband has died and the reason she died is because of her overwhelming disappointment
The other characters in the story still believe that Mrs. Mallard is devastated and she died because her frail mind and body could not handle the shock
Verbal Irony
The Joy That Kills
Irony

10. Symbols A few symbols in the story: The open window The birds
The paper boy on the street
The new Spring life
The smell of rain
The patches of blue sky
Symbols

11.
Literary Terms Game

12. Standards and Objectives
Standard: Students will understand the literary elements of the text and understand the theme of the story
Objectives: Students will understand the history of the American Feminist movement and what the Relist period of literature history was
Standards and Objectives

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