Short test

Reader’s Response

1.Yes, I appreciated the ending of the story because I found it suprising and different than usual. 2.I liked Louise Mallard because I understood her reaction when she learned about her husban’s death; feeling free. Freedom is something I love and sometimes I feel like I had to be lonely to be happy, whith nobody aroud me wich I’m attached to. In her case, it was a husband.
3.Her vision is similar from mine because I have always use to think that marriage is an obligation that leeds you to the lost of freedom eaven if your in love at the beginning.

Close reading
1. Because Louise Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, wich made her very
fragile.
3. She wept in her sister’s arms with abandonment and cried.
5. He felt a power on her because he was married to her.
7. The crime to impose a private will upon your wife or your husband when they are married.
9. Brently Mallard, her husband, comes back because he wasn’t dead. Richard tries to hide him from the view of his wife, but it’s too late; she sees him and, because she was afflicted from a heart disease, she dies under the shock.

Narration and point of view

1.Omniscient point of view.
3.Distant from the reader.

Style and literary devices

Irony
a) « …she had died from a heart disease-of joy that kills. »
The last sentence is ironic beacause the joy kills her. In this situation, the joy isn’t real, she’s not happy; she lost her freedom, but her relatives tought the she was ful of joy to see her husband and that’s why she died.
b) He wanted to protect Louise so that she would not be shocked from her happiness
of seeing her husband back. On the contrary, she was shocked in a bad way
because she lost her freedom once again. His action is ironic because he di dit it
for the wrong reason.
c) She sees his body and is not sad, on the contrary.

Homonyms
- I die of sickness while my mother dyes my t-shirt in red.
- In the brake, there are full of little animals, be carefull not to break your car going in to it.
- Its hat is red, it’s so beautiful.
- We have weathered the crisis of my sister eaven if the wether was really bad.
- I sent my brother to smell the pie and describe it to me because I had a cold and could not detect the scent of anything.

Foreshadowing
1. Louise Mallard did not react as many woman, she cried in sted of being paralyzed.
2. Louise Mallard has a heart disease.

Theme and characterization
Louise: Round chacter because she evoluates in the story. At first, she cries her husband’s death, then she’s lost, the she happy, then she dies of loosing her freedom.
Brently: Flat character because we don’t kow about his psychologic evolution.
Richard: Round character because we know he evoluates when he tries to protect Louise from seeing her husband.
Josephine: Flat character

Reading journal #1

Text: "The Lady or The tiger?" by Stockton

Love or jealousy?

That is the question.
My romantic side would say to hold on to love and to believe in it eyes closed.
My realistic side would based his decision on the fact that the human race is egocentric.
I'll explain myself now:
Once, I read something in a book called "The opening of the conscience". Don't ask me why I was reading this book......... So, I was saying that, the author, proclaimed that there were two kinds of egoism; one was healthy and the other insane. The first one was considerated as normal, it's also when you help without waiting for something in exchange. The other one was the one to describe the manipulative side of our person, wether it's done counsciously or not.

To apply this theory to "The Lady or The Tiger" written by Stockton, we could ask ourselves if the Lady was practicing the bad or the good egoism when she took the decision to send or not to send her lover to death. To answer this question, we could, as readers, think about what we would have done.........Are you a bad barbaric girl or a nice little innocent Lady? In my opinion, I would say it deppens on the day....and on the nature of my emotions toward my lover.
If I'm to attached to him, maybe I'll kill him and then kill myself after realizing what I have done, or I could let him live and then commit suicide because I'm too sad not to be whit him.
If I'm more tolerant and ready to do anything for him to be happy and alive (What would correspond more to the definition of "LOVE".), I would only care about seeing him alive not wondering if he's married whith another woman.
In a way or in another, as a human, I would be tortured by my feelings and the decision to take considering all of them.
And you, where would you send your lover?