The story of an hour

Short story by Kate Chopin

 Write a sentence with each word.

1. Abandonment

 Sergeant Morris felt a great abandonment after losing his battalion in the war.

2. Illumination

 We all want to have a brief moment of illumination like Ms. Mallard did.

3. Compose

 She came highly composed from the retreat.

4. Vacant

 Sofia has a vacant expression, so we don't know if she's comfortable at the party.

5. Irony

 The irony is that I thought he could help me.

 Answer the following questions.

1. How do you a vacant stare?

 I have a vacant stare when I stare at a place, but in reality I am not observing

anything but my mind is occupied by some thought, which is almost always a

concern or doubt, or something that takes us out of our comfort zone.

2. What Mrs. Mallard realizes in her moment of illumination?

 Mrs. Mallard, in her moment of enlightenment, realizes that she no longer has to

answer to anyone, that she is free to do what she wants with her life and no longer

has a husband telling her what to do or not to do. , but that she will be able to

make her own decisions and start her life as she wants to live it, without

restrictions from anyone, in this case her husband, who apparently imposed his

will on hers.

3. Write a situation where you can demonstrate irony.

 I want to tell you about the excellent day I have spent today. This morning I woke

up with a positive energy about me. I quickly got ready to go for a walk and do

other things, because something inside me told me that everything was going to

be fine today. I decided to go first to a clothing store to buy some red pants that I

had seen, but since my size was not in red, I bought it in blue. Immediately

afterwards, I went into a restaurant where they make the best pasta, but I ended up

eating a piece of pizza, since that was what they had available in the store.

Anyway, in many of the things that I went out to do I couldn't find what was in

plan A, so I opted for plan B. As you can see, my day was really promising. What

good luck I have!

4. Write a summary about The Story of an Hour.

 Mrs. Louise Mallard is a woman with a heart condition. So when her husband is

supposedly killed in a train accident, her sister, Josephine, and Richard, her

husband's friend, try to break the sad news to her gently so as not to give her a
heart attack. . At first, Louise reacts to the news with tears. She then asks to be let

upstairs and locks herself in her room.

The tears subside and Louise begins to look at all the beauty in the outside world.

She suddenly realizes that she is free from her, because she thinks that since her

husband is no longer hers, she will not have anyone to make decisions for her and

she will have her own will. She admits to herself that she will be happy, that she

could go out into the world and be "free, free, free!"

Josephine, fearing for Louise's health, begs her to leave her room. Finally, she

does, but as she descends the stairs, she is greeted by her husband opening the

door, disheveled but alive. Josephine screams, while Richard tries not to let

Louise see him. The doctor affirms that she was so happy to discover her husband

alive with her, that he died of happiness. But the reader is well aware that she has,

in fact, died because she was so deeply disappointed at the loss of her newfound

freedom.