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Post by jeffreymonroe1 on Jun 4, 2013 19:10:59 GMT
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Post by jeffreymonroe1 on Jun 4, 2013 19:54:59 GMT
The author of "The Story of an Hour" uses irony and point of view. She uses irony in the end of the story. The woman's husband comes back, believed to be dead, but the woman is not happy for the fact her husband is still alive. It's for the reason she doesn't have to live with him anymore. She is free from him for life. The author uses point of view to show her audience how this woman feels about her husband. She does this by writing about what this woman smells and is feeling when she gets the news about her husband and days after. The irony when her husband walks in the door is another device used. She sees her husband after realizing she is free of him has a heart attack and she is the one that dies.
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Post by Jarod Wills on Jun 4, 2013 20:06:31 GMT
The Story of an Hour
Mrs. Mallard is the protagonist in the story. She has a heart problem and finds out that her husband died in a train wreck. After she hears the news she goes up to her room and sits in a chair to look outside her window. She was so upset and stunned that while she was sitting in her chair she died of what the doctor called heart disease.
The dramatic irony in the story is that her husband didn’t actually die in the accident. He wasn’t even near the scene. His friend Richards read his name in the paper and on a telegram saying he was killed in the wreck. Neither him, Mrs. Mallard, nor her sister Josephine knew that he wasn’t on the train.
The setting for most of the story is in Mrs. Mallard’s room during the day. She is sitting in an armchair looking out the window. There are patches of blue sky showing through the clouds and a delicious breath of rain is in the air. As she sits there she starts to feel death coming over her. She tries to fight it but eventually gives in and lets it take her with happiness
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Post by Adam Jones on Jun 4, 2013 20:10:41 GMT
In "The Story Of An Hour" the author uses many literary devices. The setting in this story is the home of the Mallard family. Mrs Mallard is being confronted with the death of her husband and some of her immediate family is there to comfort her. Figurative language is used in the first line when it says that "Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble". Meaning that she could have a physical problem with her heart, or an emotional problem with the way she feels about the lose of her husband. Figurative language is also used in paragraph 18 when it says "she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window". I interpreted that to be the fresh air Mrs. Mallard was breathing in through the open window. Mrs. Mallard has an internal conflict and questions how much she really loved her husband. The author mentions how Mrs. Mallard is sad about the lose of her husband but speaks to herself about the freedom that she has obtained through her lose. Dramatic irony occurs at the end of the story when Mr. Mallard is actually not deceased and walks through the front door. This in turns causes the heart troubled Mrs. Mallard to die "of heart disease- of joy that kills."
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Post by Adam Jones on Jun 4, 2013 20:11:13 GMT
In "The Story Of An Hour" the author uses many literary devices. The setting in this story is the home of the Mallard family. Mrs Mallard is being confronted with the death of her husband and some of her immediate family is there to comfort her. Figurative language is used in the first line when it says that "Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble". Meaning that she could have a physical problem with her heart, or an emotional problem with the way she feels about the lose of her husband. Figurative language is also used in paragraph 18 when it says "she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window". I interpreted that to be the fresh air Mrs. Mallard was breathing in through the open window. Mrs. Mallard has an internal conflict and questions how much she really loved her husband. The author mentions how Mrs. Mallard is sad about the lose of her husband but speaks to herself about the freedom that she has obtained through her lose. Dramatic irony occurs at the end of the story when Mr. Mallard is actually not deceased and walks through the front door. This in turns causes the heart troubled Mrs. Mallard to die "of heart disease- of joy that kills."
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Post by johnharrison on Jun 4, 2013 20:13:57 GMT
The story (The Story of An Hour) demonstrated characterization by only telling Mrs. Mallards side of the story and how she was feeling, portraying that she was sad and contemplating about the death of her husband. Not reveling that he was alive until the end of the story and not until Mrs. Mallard herself knew he was alive. This story also demonstrated dramatic irony. The whole time the reader and Mrs. Mallard thought her husband was dead. But unknown to the reader that this was killing Mrs. Mallard and that her husband would end up being alive but the grief she endured thinking her husband was dead would later kill her. WOW didn’t see that coming. This story also demonstrates a setting. It portrays Mrs. Mallard going to her room and also her sister going to her room when her sister comes to the door worried about her. The setting being her room and or house, also it tells of her looking at the sky and seeing the blue sky so this all would have taken place during the day at some point.
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Post by wilder0329 on Jun 4, 2013 20:17:37 GMT
Well there are a few literary devices in “The Story of an Hour.” The three I am going to use are irony, theme, and setting. Well first off the author used irony in the story by making you think that the old woman’s husband was dead when he really wasn’t. The reason that is considered irony is because it was a misunderstanding between what the author made the reader think and what reality actually had in store for the reader. The second literary device that was used by the author was theme. The theme of a story is the central message that the reader gets from the story. The theme of this story is that even though death sometimes brings people down it still can set some people free. In “ The Story of an Hour” it sets the old women free in that she thinks that her husband is dead when he really is not, so she sees it as she is finally free from him. When he shows up at the house she freaks out and dies of a heart attack with heart troubles. But in the end she ends up being set free from him anyways. The third and last literary device in this story is setting. The setting of this story is set in two different places it seems like. At first its in like a grey weary place of death but towards the end of the story ti feels like its it the spring time like a happy place. The reader of the story would know this by listening to the imagery used by the characters describing there surroundings.
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Post by jaymedossett on Jun 4, 2013 20:21:57 GMT
I think that one point of view that the author in this story used is dramatic irony. Leading the audience up to believe Mr. Mallard had passed away in a train accident, when he was alive and well. Going in to detail about how dramatic it was going to be for the wife, for being that she had a heart problem, they had to break it to her easy, when all along the husband was alive and well. I think another point of view that the author was going for was suspense, stressing that the wife, if not told correctly about the situation, could have a heart attack. At another point in the story when the wife had finally allowed herself out of the room starting to come to the realization of how she was going to deal with the death of her husband, then there becomes a knock on the door. At the door was her husband, Mr. Mallard, at the sight of seeing her husband the wife goes into shock, and eventually passes away from a heart disease that her sister and her husband’s friend was scared of all along.
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Post by wyattcolehubbard15 on Jun 4, 2013 20:23:42 GMT
In the reading The Story of an Hour there are many literary devices, just a few of them are dramatic irony, tone, and symbolism. The dramatic irony in the reading starts right off the bat when Mrs. Mallard gets word her husband has died in a railroad disaster. She begins to weep, with sudden and wild abandonment in her sisters arms. Then she locks herself in her room and begins to realize that she is free from her unhappy marriage that had been leading her life. Then at the end of the story as she walks down the stairs sees her husband and dies after realizing she would have to live with her unhappy marriage. The doctors also described her cause of death was from A JOY THAT KILLS. The tone of the story changes from the begging to the end. It starts off with a dramatic tone when she first finds out her husband has passed. Once she has made it to her room and is by herself begins to realize that she is free from her unhappy marriage, the tone changes to a tone of joy and hope. The end of the story becomes very ironic when she is making it down the steps and her husband comes in untouched and fine. She sees that she will have to live under the unhappiness of their marriage and died. Then the doctors described her death as being from a joy that kills. Symbolism comes into play in many ways in this story one is with the comfortable chair. It was symbolized by being a comfortable and roomy armchair that she sank into. Then Mrs. Mallard was described as a being young with a fair calm face. This is symbolizing the beauty and innocence of a child.
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Post by coreyrowland51 on Jun 4, 2013 20:25:26 GMT
In “The Lottery” the author uses irony to show what happened to the woman who complained. The woman in the story complained saying it wasn’t fair that her husband didn’t have enough time to pick out a piece of paper. So the lottery official allowed him to draw again for his whole family. After he does this his wife ends up with the winning ticket. As soon as it’s announced that she has the winning ticket the crowd begins to throw rocks at her. Although the book doesn’t say it the crowd ends up killing the woman. This is Ironic due to the fact that if she would have not said anything she wouldn’t have been stoned by the crowd of people. This story uses lots of characters. It’s actually kind of hard to read at some points to keep up with all the characters. There is a whole town’s worth of characters. The setting of this story is in summer, June 27th to be exact. That is the date that the lottery takes place. Corey Rowland
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Post by justinmy on Jun 4, 2013 20:26:06 GMT
Discussion Question “spunk” The author of the story "Spunk" uses irony and conflict. Used irony because the character Joe was always betrayed as the quit type and he tried to kill spunk. spunk stole Joe’s wife and spunk killed Joe because he supposedly tried to kill him. In the end of the story spunk dies and Lena, Joe’s wife, is alone. Used conflict because for most of the story the two characters spunk and Joe, there is tension and they get involved in a fight and Joe is killed. Lena is caught in the middle of the hole conflict and in the end both the people she had been with died an she is left single
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Post by willbishop119 on Jun 4, 2013 20:26:27 GMT
Edgar Allan Poe made the setting for a majority of the story “The Cask of Amontillado” a dark, moist, and sad place, the vaults underground, in which at the time period was used as a grave of sorts, is where Montresor took Fortunato to basically kill him. The setting is also depicted by the way Montresor gets Fortunato to drink more wine without him realizing it, also tricking him into thinking that the chain around his wrists and waist was a joke. The theme of the story is revenge, in some way, shape or form Fortunato has insulted Montresor to an extent of Montresor wanting to kill Fortunato in revenge for the insult. The plot of the story was exposed in the first three paragraphs that Montresor was insulted by Fortunato to an extent of revenge including murder. Montresor’s narrative at the beginning of the story described the extent of Fortunato’s insult upon Montresor, and the length that he must go to revenge his dignity, or reputation, that Fortunato had disgraced so badly that the only way he can have revenge is by murdering Fortunato.
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Post by Jeff Hughes on Jun 4, 2013 20:44:43 GMT
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe uses setting, tone, and theme to portray the meaning of the story. The tone, like most of Poe’s works, was dark and morbid from the start. This is supported in the text, for example “A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redressor”, implies the tone of vengeance for wrongdoing. This morbid tone is also supported by the setting. Most of the story is set in the catacombs of Italy. Poe writes of human remains and a foul smell through the catacombs. He uses the sense of going deeper into the catacombs under low arches and into a crypt. These details of the setting increase the intensity of the morbid tone. There are multiple themes throughout the story. One of these themes is amontillado (an expensive pale, dry wine). Montresor uses amontillado to lure Fortunato into the vaults where Montresor plans to execute his revenge. Another theme through the story is death. From the beginning to the end death is repeatedly revealed, up to the point of Fortunato’s demise. This is an example of how an author can use theme, setting, and tone together to make a great work of literature.
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Post by ddupree on Jun 4, 2013 20:52:03 GMT
In the story “The Birth Mark” the author uses conflict throughout the story. The author use of conflict was between a man and his wife’s birth make and how it was her only imperfection to him and he could not stand it. Throughout the story the man and his wife go back and forth about whether not to remove the mark. The author describes the setting in detail when the man’s wife wakes up after she faints in a room which her husband had remodeled. The author goes on to describe the room as enchanting to the wife and describes the room as having the walls hung with gorgeous curtains. The author uses the point of view from the man has his wife. In the beginning story uses it by allowing the reader to hear the opinion of both the man and the wife on the subject of the birthmark.
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Post by nielsakkerman1 on Jun 4, 2013 20:55:54 GMT
Discussion question 1 Author Shirley Jackson uses three different literary devices in the Fiction “The Lottery”. The literary device that is used in the short story could be seen are symbolism, irony, and tone. Symbolism is conveyed in the story with the black box and the lottery. The black box represents symbolism with the fact that the box is completely worn out and faded showing that the lottery is a long time tradition that people have a hard time getting rid of and changing. The people are not willing to change the box or fix the box, because the box represents the tradition the people do not want to change. The lottery represents symbol that the people are willing to follow tradition without questioning the tradition, no matter how cruel, and evil the tradition could be. The next literary device that is conveyed in the story is irony that is represented with the idea that the tradition the people follow is considered to be a “lottery”. People consider lotteries to be a positive event when you win money or other prices, but in the short story the “The Lottery” it will have a negative outcome when the person wins the lottery, showing the irony in the story. Last literary device shown in the short story is tone. The authors tone is displayed with the authors wording used towards the fact that people are not willing the change traditions without questioning the fact whether it is morally right. For Example: "”Shut up, Tessie,”" Bill Hutchinson said. Shows that the author uses a harsh and mean tone that Mrs. Hutchinson wants to change the tradition and believe it is not fair, but everybody around her is not willing to change, and even her husband is willing to tell her to shut up and willing to go on with the tradition.
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