A Rebirth And A Death In Kate Chopin's "The Story Of An Hour"
Kernel's and Satellites
Kate Chopin's story, "The Story of an Hour" is an ironic short story of a wife in the late 1800's. The story is only a few pages long and in doing so Chopin writes a story filled with kernel's (events that have important causal chronological coherence) with very few satellite's (events not logically essential to the narrative action). There were no satellites that I could find while reading the text; I found every word written essential to the narrative, the progression and the conclusion of the story.
Freytag's Pyramid and Function's
Upon examining Freytag's pyramid, I can see that the narrative does follow this diagrammatic representation of the story structure. From the inciting moment (Mrs. Mallard's heart trouble, and Mr. Mallards "death") to the climax (Mrs. Mallards becoming of a free independent person) to the catastrophe (Mrs. Mallard's death) we can follow Freytag's design. The most interesting element to the story, following Freytag's pyramid,......
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