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    Analysis of Setting in Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe uses the literary device “setting”, to create a dark tone in his story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The story uses about 5 settings: 3 of them are used often, like Mood and Atmosphere, the Time of Day, and Elapsed Time, while the other two are not common, like Locale and Population. They help the story a lot by making it spooky. Mood and Atmosphere in this story uses lighting the most. Evidence of this is when the Madman has his lamp covered

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    Story Of An Hour

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    The setting of a story can shape other story elements like the plot, characters, and theme. The setting changed the plot in “Story of an Hour” by affecting how the climax and resolution happened. It affected the climax and ending because the author wrote, “ ‘Free! Body and soul free!’ she kept whispering.” This proves that if the story did not take place in the Victorian Era, Mrs. Mallard would already have rights and freedom, but since it does, she feels the excitement of her new freedom. It also

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    short story is the setting. The setting is the location and time where the story takes place. Knowing the location and literature era of where a story was written can change how the characters' act or react and how the reader will perceive the story. Kate Chopin uses the location of St. Louis, Missouri during the 1960s and her personal experiences with the death of her husband to share the ironic story of a married couple, Louise and Brently Mallard. The significance of the setting in The Story of an

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    The two stories I have chosen are named, “The Interlopers” and “The Story of an Hour”. They are two very different stories with completely different characters, settings, plots, and writers. But of course they do still have similarities. For example, they are both in the category of short stories, and have the same kind of Irony that ends the story. So here are four topics, each with at least two examples from the stories to support the topic. The first topic is the setting of the two stories. The

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    All Summer In A Day Mood

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    In the story, All Summer in a day, by Ray Bradbury, the setting helps develop the mood of sadness, and depression. The author does this by making the setting dark and stormy everyday on venus. The setting makes the story gloomy at first, but when the sun comes out for one hour, it makes the reader hopeful, but the main character missed the sun. That makes the reader’s mood depressed and sad. The text states, “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled

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    The Interlopers Thesis

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    Thesis statement: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin has a unique and intelligent concept, but is defeated by lack of story building and a rushed, badly constructed ending. The Interlopers by Saki has a much more basic premise, but uses natural storytelling elements to create seamless story progression and a more powerful message. Setting The Story of an Hour: The audience is keyed into the time period by mention of how popular newsstands are, the lack of cell phones, and the social restrictions

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    Gilman and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin have similarities that include character traits, controversial feminist backgrounds, and time period; and their differences, including setting, and the final fates for the women. Both written in the 19th century, the stories confront patriarchal ideas of women and their relationships with their husbands. But their differences main contrast is the country setting for “The Yellow Wallpaper” and the city setting for “The Story of an Hour” and a slightly

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    Louise's Isolation

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    gives her the freedom to do anything she wants. The story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin shows a lot of symbolism of Louise's freedom with her heart problems, describing an open window, and limiting the setting of the house. A symbol of Louise's isolation in life and her marriage in “The Story of an Hour” is Louise’s heart problems. The first sentence in the story is “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble,

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    inspired women to reveal their independence and opinions through the use of symbolism, setting, and theme in their short stories, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Through these both stories the authors demonstrates how both of the main characters work to identify their freedom, to describe this they use symbolism to represent this emotion. Kate Chopin, the writer of the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” utilizes symbolist phrases to express Mrs. Mallard’s feelings towards finding

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    can mean very different things to people, but everyone desires freedom. In the stories “The Story of an Hour “ by Kate Chopin's and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman showcase of obtaining and losing freedom in an interesting approach. Their approach is similar in that they both target women to obtain freedom however the stories are different by the effort on obtaining freedom. In “The Story of an Hour” the women is finally granted freedom when the husband is dead, however this is

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