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    The document contains a student's responses to 14 questions about the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The student summarizes key details about Mrs. Mallard's reaction to news of her husband's death and her brief period of feeling free and independent before the unexpected twist at the end of the story when her husband returns alive. The student explains how the story uses descriptive words and phrases to convey Mrs. Mallard's emotional journey from grief to a sense of liberation that ultimately leads to her death from shock.

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    The document contains a student's responses to 14 questions about the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The student summarizes key details about Mrs. Mallard's reaction to news of her husband's death and her brief period of feeling free and independent before the unexpected twist at the end of the story when her husband returns alive. The student explains how the story uses descriptive words and phrases to convey Mrs. Mallard's emotional journey from grief to a sense of liberation that ultimately leads to her death from shock.

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    The document contains a student's responses to 14 questions about the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The student summarizes key details about Mrs. Mallard's reaction to news of her husband's death and her brief period of feeling free and independent before the unexpected twist at the end of the story when her husband returns alive. The student explains how the story uses descriptive words and phrases to convey Mrs. Mallard's emotional journey from grief to a sense of liberation that ultimately leads to her death from shock.

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    The document contains a student's responses to 14 questions about the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The student summarizes key details about Mrs. Mallard's reaction to news of her husband's death and her brief period of feeling free and independent before the unexpected twist at the end of the story when her husband returns alive. The student explains how the story uses descriptive words and phrases to convey Mrs. Mallard's emotional journey from grief to a sense of liberation that ultimately leads to her death from shock.

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    Full name: Nguyễn Thị Phương Uyên

    Student’s ID: 19DH712987

    1.Paragraph 1: The author states that “… Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart
    trouble.” What does the word “afflicted” mean based on context?

    - That’s mean she experienced the affected by heart disease

    2. Paragraph 2: Josephine and Richards tell Mrs. Mallard the news. Why do they
    break it to her so gently? What do you think they fear based on your reading?
    - Mrs. Mallard is having a heart attack, and Josephine and Richards do not want
    her to die as a result of the news

    3. Paragraph 3: Underline the words that describe Mrs. Mallard’s initial reaction.
    Now, put this description into your own words.
    - “the storm of grief”. In my own words it looks like a great sadness and pain

    4. Paragraph 5: Mrs. Mallard is in her room looking out the window. Underline the
    words that are used to describe the scene she sees. How these are descriptive
    words at odds with what just happened?
    - tops of trees, breath of rain, a distant song

    5. Paragraph 9: How is Mrs. Mallard feeling? Make a prediction - what do you


    think is “coming to her?”
    - Feelings of guilt are overwhelming. I predict that she will live her life with the
    sense of liberation but guilt-ridden feeling never disappear

    6. Paragraph 11: We see what is coming to her when she says, “free, free, free!”
    What do you think she means by this?

    - Because Mrs. Mallard begins to have a sense of freedom. Despite the fact that
    she knows she should be sad and lonely, she recognizes that she wasn't always
    happy with her spouse and that there are things she'd like to do for herself simply
    because she wants to

    7. Paragraph 12: Why does the author choose the phrase “monstrous joy” to
    describe how Mrs. Mallard is feeling?
    - Because the phrase "monstrous joy" is an oxymoron, as it combines two
    opposing meanings. Her grief at her husband's death is complicated

    8. Paragraph 13: Put this paragraph into your own words.


    - She'd have no one to live for in the years ahead; she'd be living for herself. There
    would be no strong will bending hers in the way that men and women believe they
    have the right to force their private will on a colleague. As she saw it in that little
    moment of clarity, whether the act was done with good intentions or bad
    intentions, it It didn't appear to be any less of a crime

    9. Paragraph 15: She admits to love, but then says it does not count “… in the face
    of this possession of self assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest
    impulse of her being!” According to this passage, what is more important than
    love?

    -Her self-assertion

    10. Paragraph 16: “Free! Body and soul free!” Why does she keep whispering this?
    -"Free! Body and soul free!" implies that Louise Mallard is not feeling sad her
    husband's death. Rather, she believes that his death has free her and provided her
    with the opportunity to be truly independent beyond the horrible marital
    relationship

    11. Paragraph 19: Look at the phrase “... life might be long.” Why does the author
    choose to repeat it? What does it mean each time?
    - The author want to assert that she is now liberated and self-sufficient, and her
    life has suddenly become worthwhile

    12. Paragraph 20: “… she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.”
    What does the narrator mean by this? Why would the author choose this
    description?
    - The narrator implies that she knows she is no longer under anyone's control, and
    she has control over her own destiny as a goddess of Victory

    13. Paragraph 21: Who comes home? And what is everyone’s reaction?
    - It is Brently Mallard – her husband. Everyone is happy and surprise but
    Mrs.Mallard
    14. Paragraph 22: The story ends with the line “…of the joy that kills.” What does
    this mean? Why did she die?

    - Despite the doctors' claims that Louise died of "joy that kills," Louise's heart
    broke the minute she learned her hopeful, independent future had been shattered.
    As a result, Louise Mallard's shattered ambition of being free and living for herself
    is ruined

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