The Story of an

Hour
By kate Chopin
 Before reading the story
think about these questions:
a. What things make you happy?

I like taking, spending. I like to take photos,

b. What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st

century?

In the past, (a long time ago) women weren’t as free as

we are nowadays. Comparative + than ..

c. What do you know about women’s rights?

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Let’s meet Kate
Chopin
Kate Chopin was born Catherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850, in
St. Louis, Missouri. She was one of five children, but both her
sisters died in infancy and her brothers both died in their twenties.
When she was five years old, Kate was sent to a Catholic boarding
school called The Sacred Heart Academy. Just months later,
however, her father died in a train accident, and she was sent home
to live with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all
widowed. After two years in their care, she returned to Sacred
Heart, where she excelled in French and English, finishing at the
top of her class.

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She got married to Oscar Chopin in
1870 and bore six children.
When she was 32, her husband died.
She became to write fiction in 1889,
an activity that enabled her to
develop and express her strong
views on women, sex, and
marriage.

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 Do you agree?
A good woman must be submissive.

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Expressing Opinions
Suppose you are with a group of friends discussing
Chopin’s short story: “The Story of an Hour.
One friend says: I think the writer wanted to lay
emphasis on Louis Mallard’s heart trouble. There’s no
questions about it.
Another friend says: I disagree! Remember that she was
pretending to be sad about her husband’s death
The first one responds: Actually! It was her delicate
condition what killed her.

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Common Phrases
× I think… Example:
In my opinion, Chopin uses
× I believe… IRONY to show Mallard’s
× I feel… emotional problems with her
relationship to Brently.
× In my opinion… and
× I would say…

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Add an adverb or an adjective To
make the statement stronger.
For example:
I really think…
I strongly believe…
I truly feel… or
In my honest opinion…

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Give reasons for
your opinion
I strongly when she is out
believe, Chopin of others’ sight,
because she
uses IRONY to her private
cries
show Mallard’s thoughts are of
dramatically in
emotional her own life and
front of her
problems with the
sister but ...
her relationship opportunities
to Brently... that await her.

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Formal
Phrases
From my point of view…
From my perspective…
In my view…
It seems to me that…

In my view, Kate Chopin was

ahead of her time, and therefore
criticized.

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Asking for opinions
What do you think of
(gerond) (noun phrase)…?

What are your thoughts on…? What’s your opinion on Kate

Chopin’s literary works?
How do you feel about…? How do you feel about the
short story you read?
What’s your opinion on…?

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 Agreeing
and
Disagreeing
Let’s see how...

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 To show agreement, you can use short, clear statements. Let’s
suppose a friend says, “I think Mallard could say the true about her
feelings towards her husband’s death”.
You might show you agree by giving one of these responses:

So do I.
Me too.
Definitely.
I agree.
I couldn’t agree more.

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But what if a person says
something you disagree
with?
Informal: Formal:
I disagree! I’m not sure I agree with
I don’t agree with sb/that you on…
sth/ on sth.. I’m sorry but I don’t
Yeah, but… agree.
I’m afraid I disagree.

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Another common way to disagree politely is
to tell the person you respect their opinion
before sharing your own. Try phrases like
these:
I see what you’re saying but…
You have a point there but…
I understand where you’re coming from but…

From my perspective, Ms. Mallard was an abused

woman mistreated by her husband.
I see what you’re saying but it doesn’t say whether she
was abused or not, maybe she didn’t love him.

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2. After reading the story, answer these questions
in your own words.

a. What is the nature of Mrs. Mallard's "heart trouble," and

why would the author mention it in the first paragraph? Is there
any way in which this might be considered symbolic or ironic?
b. The setting of the story is extremely limited; it is confined
largely to a room, a staircase, and a front door. How does this
limitation help to express the themes of the story?
c. What view of marriage does the story present? The story
was published in 1894; does it only represent attitudes toward
marriage in the nineteenth century, or could it equally apply to
attitudes about marriage today?

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She sees...She doesn’t …
Women were, they
were..

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 Writing a Plot
Woman Hollering
Creek

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What can you tell me
about the story?
TITLE
Author
Main characters?
Setting? (time and place)
Conflict/Problem?
Resolution?
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Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

Main characters: Cleofilas, Juan Pedro, The nurse, The

nurse’s friend Felice.

Setting: In the border between Mexico and US. Texas

city.

Conflict: It occurs when Cleofilas gets pregnant again

and she decides on telling her nurse about the abuses
she suffers from her husband every day.

Resolution: the events start being resolved. The nurse

tells a friend of hers to drive Cleofilas to San Antonio
and Cleofilas finds the way to abandon her abusive
husband.
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Sandra Cisneros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CuRcFkH9nU&t
=135s
Sandra Cisneros talks about her childhood and the
role libraries and education played in her life.

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Answer these
questions:
1. Cisneros mentions a specific place. Which one?
and , Why is it significant for her?
2. She says “I found a room of my own” What does
she mean?
3. She says that when she lived in Chicago a same
place made her feel something special. How did
she express that feeling?
4. What did her education have in particular? What
did she remember? Was she a good student?
5. For What did her 5th grade teacher complain?
6.
7.
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Reporter Speech
Sandra says that her education was interrupted. She
went from one school to another …
She said that her education had been

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The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Analyzing literature
setting, narrative style, symbol, Historical context with regard to
and characterization. changing roles of American
women in the nineteenth and
early twentieth century.
Evaluate the following claim:
"The narrator of "The Yellow
Wall-paper" represents Gilman's
feminism."

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narrators
Narrator’s point of view Reliable Narrator. Objective
narration: accurately observes and
First person records reality of the story. Shares
values of the reader; creates trust
Second èrsond with the reader. Has a lot of
knowledge about the events and
Third person characters of the story.
Unreliable Narrator: a narrator
whose perception is immature or
limited through their point of view.

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 For example, when you go

Setting
to bed, it is usually night
time. The setting is both
your room (the physical
location) and nighttime (the
Time time of day). If you go to
school, your lessons usually
Place are in your classroom during
the day.
Environment

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Symbols For example: in “Woman Hollering
Creek”

Symbolism is a literary
Movies and Telenovelas.
device that uses symbols,
be they words, people, Movies and telenovelas or
marks, locations, or soap operas in Latin
abstract ideas to represent America symbolize
something beyond the escape, aspiration, and
literal meaning. The
dreams
concept of symbolism is
not confined to works of
literature: symbols inhabit
every corner of our daily life

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Characters
One way to classify characters is by examining how
they change (or don't change) over the course of a
story. Grouped in this way by character
development, character types include the dynamic
character, the round character, the static
character, the stock character, and the symbolic
character

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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote the Yellow
Wall-paper," 1913

"For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous

nervous breakdown tending to melancholia—and beyond.
During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout
faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in
nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise
man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which a still
good physique responded so promptly that he concluded that
there was nothing much the matter with me, and sent me
home with solemn advice to 'live as domestic a life as possible,'
to 'have but two hours' intelligent life a day,' and 'never to
touch pen, brush or pencil again as long as I lived.' This was in
1887…"

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What does Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow
Wall-paper" suggest about middle-class women's place
and role(s) in this society?

Charlotte Anna Perkins was She married Charles in 1884, became pregnant, gave
born on July 3, 1860 in birth to a daughter, fell into a depression, entered a
Hartford, Connecticut. sanitarium, left the sanitarium, and suffered from a
Although Gilman grew up in nervous breakdown. Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell
poverty, she was self-taught, recommended that she "never touch a pen, brush or
and she read. She studied at pencil as long as you live." Charlotte left Stetson in
the Rhode Island School of 1888. In 1900, Charlotte Perkins Gilman married
Design. In 1882, Charlotte her first cousin, Houghton Gilman. Charlotte Perkins
Perkins Gilman met Charles Gilman learned that she had breast cancer in 1932.
Walter Stetson She committed suicide in 1935. She was 75 years of
(1858-1911), a Providence, age.
Rhode Island artist.

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