By Morgan Hailee Kaitlyn Eldin The Plot The

By : Morgan Hailee Kaitlyn & Eldin

The Plot

The Intro �Mrs. Louise Mallard is suffering from heart troubles while under the care of her sister Josephine

Plot INCITING EVENT RISING ACTION � Her sister Josephine tells � Louise runs to her room her that her husband has died in a terrible plane crash and locks herself in. She sits in a large arm chair staring out her window trying to figure out what her emotions were about her husbands death.

Plot CRISIS MAJOR CRISIS � Louise is confused about � Josephine try’s to get her how she feels about her deceased husband, knowing that she loved him but sometimes she did not. sister out her room before she makes herself ill. The to argue for until Louise comes out.

Plot CLIMAX FALLING ACTION � The two sisters walk down � Mrs. Mallard collapses and stairs to see her husbands friend standing there and behind him the door opens and Mr. Mallard walks in. dies of her heart disease.

Conclusion �The doctors diagnose her of having died from heart disease… The joy that kills.

Themes

Don’t believe everything you hear

Don’t believe everything you hear �Mrs. Mallard’s sister had told her that her husband was dead after hearing it from Mrs. Mallards husbands friend. Mrs. Mallard led her self to believe it until she came to find her husband was still alive…. . And she died.

A lot can happen in a short amount of time.

A lot can happen in a short amount of time �With in one hour Mrs. Mallard found out her husband died, mourned, became excited about her freedom, mourned some more, saw her husband the died.

Characters

The Characters PROTAGONIST ANTAGONIST � Mr. Mallard � A young fair woman with a � Josephine � Caring and protective of calm face. � Suffering from a heart condition. her sister Louise.

Other Characters RICHARDS MR. MALLARD � Mr. Mallards friend. � Mrs. Mallards husband.

Conflicts

Person vs Person “Josephine was kneeling before the door with her lips to the keyhole imploring for admission “Louise , open the door! I beg; open the door – you will make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heavens sake open the door. ” “Go away. I’m not making myself ill” Story of an Hour pg. 201

Person vs Self “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a phsyical exhasution that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul” Story of an Hour pg. 202

Point of View

Third Person Ominiscient �The short story “Story of an Hour” was written in the point of view of third person omniscient. The story is seen through the eyes of a spectator that knows all of the people. The story uses the names of the characters and words like she, her, he and they.

Third Person Omniscient Reading the story through all knowing point of view, lets you understand the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard and the Antagonist, her sister Josephine, in a more in depth way. You get to understand what they are feeling and read what they are saying by just watching them.

Another point of view �If The Story of an Hour would have been written in a different point of view such as first person through the eyes of Louise or Josephine, you would understand that one character in great detail and the others through their eyes.

Literary Devices

Simile PG. 202 PG. 203 � “She was beginning to � “There was a feverish recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will- as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. ” triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory. ”

Metaphore PG. 202 PG. 201 -202 � “She was drinking in a very � “She sat with her head elixir of life though that open window. ” thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dream. ”

Imagery �“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of the trees that were all a quiver with the new spring of life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. ”

Echo Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” In this song the main character is happy that her father is dead in a tornado because of what an awful man he was, much like how Mrs. Mallard was happy that her husband was dead.

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