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Analyzing "The Story of an Hour"

The document summarizes a short story titled "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. It provides instructions for students to read the story and complete comprehension questions to analyze key details. These include identifying the main characters, Mrs. Mallard's actions upon receiving news of her husband's death, positive and negative words used in the story, and explaining Mrs. Mallard's feelings and what interrupted her. The story is about a woman whose husband is reported dead, but finds unexpected emotions of freedom and joy upon the news, which are cut short by the reality that he is in fact alive.

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Analyzing "The Story of an Hour"

The document summarizes a short story titled "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. It provides instructions for students to read the story and complete comprehension questions to analyze key details. These include identifying the main characters, Mrs. Mallard's actions upon receiving news of her husband's death, positive and negative words used in the story, and explaining Mrs. Mallard's feelings and what interrupted her. The story is about a woman whose husband is reported dead, but finds unexpected emotions of freedom and joy upon the news, which are cut short by the reality that he is in fact alive.

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TEXTO 4

Now we will be reading a short story. Get ready to enjoy it!

This type of reading differs from what we have been reading so far, because a literary
work is read from an aesthetic stance. Rosenblatt (1988) tells us: “The aesthetic reader
experiences, savours, the qualities of the structured ideas, situations, scenes,
personalities, emotions, called forth, participating in the tensions, conflicts and
resolutions as they unfold. This lived-through meaning is felt to correspond to the text”.

Let’s quote Roland Barthes: “Literature is the question minus the answer”.
So, we are not expecting only one answer.

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/

Anticipate:
Read the title and the first paragraph: In your opinion, what is the conflict
in this story?

_El conflicto es contarle a la señora Mallard la noticia de la muerte de su


esposo, ya que ella sufre del
corazón._____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
____

Verify:

1. Read the story

2. Re-read the first two paragraphs and complete the chart with the
information you have found:

Mrs. Mallard Esposa de Mr. Mallard, sufre del corazón.

Mr. Mallard Supuesto “asesinado”

Josephine Hermana de Mrs. Mallard

Richards Amigo de Mr. Mallard


3. List the activities that Mrs. Mallard did after receiving the news:

__lloró, se arrojó a los brazos de su Hermana, se encerró en su


habitación sola, se sentó con la cabeza echada hacia atrás sobre el almohadón de la
silla_____________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________

4. Make two lists, one with positive words and another with negative words
from paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 8:

Positive connotation Negative connotation

comfortable physical exhaustion


delicious crying
patches of blue sky abandonment,
grief

5. Why do you think these words are used?


_Porque ayudan a darle una visión de los sentimientos del personaje y los
que intenta transmitir la
escena.__________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
_____

6. Explain in your own words what Mrs Mallard felt (paragraphs 9-16):
___________________________________________________________________
___Lo que le sucedió a la Señora Mallard parece un ataque cardíaco que está
descripto a través de los párrafos__pero sin embargo es una especie de
melancolía y alegría porque en realidad no amaba más a su marido y se iba a
liberar._____________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
_

7. What interrupted Mrs. Mallard when she was coming down the stairs?
La voz de su Hermana implorando para que le abra la puerta.

8. Explain the “joy that kills” Mrs. Mallard.


La alegría que mata, aunque en realidad la mujer muere porque le da un
ataque cardíaco no por alegría sino porque se le derrumban sus sueños de
“libertad” y primavera “eterna”.

Internalize:

Did you like the story? Why or why not? Write a paragraph explaining your
reaction to the story.

No me gusto básicamente porque es una historia genérica, si bien tiene un poco


de suspense es también bastante clásico el recurso. Además las apelaciones a lo
dulce, el lenguaje poético de los “ensueños” de la señora me parecen de una
literatura empalagosa.

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