Holocaust Survivor Stories web sites
Six stories of survivors
Wikipedia list of survivors
Behind Every Name a Story--US Holocaust museum
Holocaust Learning Survivor Stories
Holocaust Education Archive and Research Team
Telling Their Stories
Mrs. Griffin's blog
Friday, August 21, 2015
Night Online quizzes
Night online
quizzes 2015
You must get 40 right; any more than that is extra credit.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/n/night/study-help/quiz (15 questions)
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/night/quiz.html (25 questions)
http://www.sporcle.com/games/RODY74CMC/character-names--night-by-elie-wiesel1
(18 questions)
http://www.gradesaver.com/night/study-guide/quiz1 (25 questions)
(18 questions)
http://www.gradesaver.com/night/study-guide/quiz1 (25 questions)
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Literary Analysis example
First & Last Name
English 101/Section #
Date
Essay #6
English 101/Section #
Date
Essay #6
Disappointment
"The Story
of an Hour" is a short story in which Kate Chopin, the author, presents an
often unheard of view of marriage. Mrs. Louise Mallard, Chopin's main
character, experiences the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation
of loneliness after she learns of her husband's death. Later, when Mrs. Mallard
learns that her husband, Brently, still lives, she know that all hope of
freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment kills Mrs. Mallard. Published in
the late eighteen hundreds, the oppressive nature of marriage in "The
Story of an Hour" may well be a reflection of, though not exclusive to,
that era.
Though Chopin
relates Mrs. Mallard's story, she does not do so in first person. Chopin
reveals the story through a narrator's voice. The narrator is not simply an
observer, however. The narrator knows, for example, that Mrs. Mallard, for the
most part, did not love her husband (paragraph 15). It is obvious that the
narrator knows more than can be physically observed. Chopin, however, never
tells the reader what Mrs. Mallard is feeling. Instead, the reader must look
into Mrs. Mallard's actions and words in order to understand what Mrs. Mallard
feels.
Mrs. Mallard is
held back in her marriage. The lines of her face "bespoke repression"
(paragraph 8). When Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband's death, she knows that
there will "be no powerful will bending her" (paragraph 14). There
will be no husband who believes he has the "right to impose a private will
upon a fellow creature" (paragraph 14). Mrs. Mallard acknowledges that her
husband loved her. Brently had only ever looked at Mrs. Mallard with love
(paragraph 13). This information implies to the reader that Brently is not a
bad man; he simply believes that it is his right, and perhaps his obligation as
a husband, to direct Mrs. Mallard in everything she does. When Mrs. Mallard
learns of her husband's death, she realizes that he will no longer be there to
repress her; there will be no one, save her, to direct her will. Then, in a
crushing blow, everything she has just realized and begun to look forward to is
stolen from her grasp.
Upon learning
of her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard realizes that she is now free. She repeats
the words "Free, free, free!" (paragraph 11) and feels her body come
alive. Her pulse beats faster; her blood runs warmer; her eyes brighten
(paragraph 11). Mrs. Mallard knows that from now on she can live for herself
and no one else, that "all sort of days…would be her own" (paragraph
19). Mrs. Mallard sees the chance to live out the rest of her days for herself;
she sees the opportunity to be her own person. Mrs. Mallard now looks forward
to a long life. She had previously dreaded the years ahead spent under the
thumb of her husband (paragraph 19). Now, though, Mrs. Mallard is someone who
has much to look forward to and many joys to appreciate. This opportunity is
taken from her just as her chance of freedom is taken from her when she learns
that Brently still lives. When Mrs. Mallard sees Brently walk through the front
door, the disappointment and the devastation of loss that she suffers cause her
heart to fail.
When Mrs.
Mallard walks down the stairs with her sister, she has triumph in her eyes
(paragraph 20). The front door opens, however, and Brently walks in. What
effect does this have on Mrs. Mallard? It kills her. Mrs. Mallard has, in a
very short time, realized the world is a wonderful place and that she can live
in it anyway she chooses. She gains freedom, independence, individuality, and a
whole host of things to look forward to in life. When Brently walks in the
door, though, Mrs. Mallard knows that she will have to spend the rest of her
life as no more than his wife does, just as she had been. She knows that she
will never be free. This is too much for Mrs. Mallard to handle. Life had been
grim before, with her looking forward to the years ahead "with a
shudder" (paragraph 19). Now that Mrs. Mallard has tasted what life might
have been like without her husband, the idea of resuming her former life is
unbearably grim. When Mrs. Mallard sees that her husband still lives, she dies,
killed by the disappointment of losing everything she so recently thought she
had gained.
Mrs. Louise Mallard experiences
the exhilaration of freedom after she learns of her husband's death in
"The Story of an Hour". Later, when Mrs. Mallard learns that her
husband still lives, she know that all hope of freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment
kills her. The oppressive nature of marriage in "The Story of an
Hour" may well be a reflection of, though not exclusive to the late
eighteen hundreds.
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