... Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour." These two stories deal with the position of women in the late 1800's. This era is especially interesting because women were still treated as second-class citizens. I will try to make their themes apparent by examining a brief summary of their stories, relate them to ... news; however, instead of falling apart, Louise finds herself feeling as if she has a new lease on life because she will finally be able to live for herself. Suddenly, her husband walks in the door, and shocked, Louise drops dead of a heart attack. The physician says it was from "a j...

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... is one page (without illustrations) while the nineteenth century version is five. In view of this, two probable reasons of such shortage are that children have a short attention span, and the other is that there is room for the use of imagination. Instead of a child reading that Cinderella wore "splendid silver ... allows the child to think of a dress and shoes with a color of his/her choice. It is also evident that the tale is set in the children's viewpoint: where the setting is in the "big house", characters are good or evil, themes are not depressive. The removal of a large portion o...

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... western, Treasure Mountain, written by Louis L"Amour, the main character goes through many internal and external conflicts. The author portrays his themes in more of a straightforward manner as opposed to using any type of symbolism or metaphor. The novel revolves around Orrin Sackett, ... a gold mining trip in New Orleans. Instead of using indirect characterization to show a character's state of mind, L"Amour uses an omniscient point of view to assure the reader that the character's suspicisions are genuine. Orrin has his own theories regarding his father's mysterious death and plans t...

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