Week 10 Honors English

I might choose the following author for my year long author project because I like how Kate Chopin describes her characters. She uses the word cynical and I also like how she uses the word nor. I thought her short story The Kiss was very well written. I really like how in the end the girl gets told that she can't have her lover and she can only have her husband. This is the way it should be and that is how it ended up. The girl got taught that you can't always get what you want.
Another short story called The Story of an Hour was written by her too. I thought it was ok but could have had a better ending. The poor girl lost her husband and was so happy she died of heart failure. It's kind of funny how that happened. They didn't want to tell her that he died because she has a weak heart. Then her sister told her and she was so happy, then someone found her dead.
Another story I read was Desiree's Baby. I thought this was a very interesting story. This was about a young girl who fell in love and married a well off man. He owned slaves and had them pck cotton for him. He did not treat then very well, untill he met Desiree. They had a baby and this baby grew very fast. You find out latter on that the baby was of a diffrent race and the father blamed it on Desiree. He said " you're not white." At the end you find out that the father of the baby was half black. I liked this story. This happened back in that time period a lot, this story is very realistic.
Kate Chopin writes the ism realism. She does this very well, I felt like these stories were very real. The life lessons jump out at you, they are easily learned. Over all I enjoy her writing very much and I am pretty sure that I will study this author for my year long project.

Week 9 Honors english

My Favorite ism was Realism. I read the short story by Kate Chopin. I liked this short story because it said how things were point blank. The story said that your can't always get what you want. The best thing about this ism is it portrays real life. This ism's authors talk about every day people. They described the people in there stories very well, such as cynical or the person's height.
This ism is about every day life and strong topics like civil war or slavery. The ism had some of its authors write about urbanization or industrialization; mainly about how they felt about it. Most people were not for urbanization and industrialization at this time. The people didn't think it was going to work.
Realism has many authors. A few of the authors are Joe Chandler Harris, Kate Chopin, and Emily Dickinson. Each of these authors has written many great pieces. I enjoyed this ism very much.
I think my favorite part about this ism is a real feeling. The life lessons and topics are very interesting. Such as the pome by Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for Death". This pome is about Emily Dickinson's life. It's a poem that is symbolic, it shows life. It starts off with a child playing in a school yard then to fields of grain. She states "Since then ' tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the day". This Sentence tells me that life is short; it passes by quick and feels short. This ism was the most intersting one to me. I felt that I could read this ism a lot and enjoy it.