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Kate Chopin's Rhetorical Analysis: The Story Of An Hour
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Audience Profile: My audience will be my classmates and my instructor. I would say that this is appropriate readings for anyone from the age of 18-50. I would also highly suggest more of women to understand the readings than men.
Audience-subject relationship: The audience that will be reading this should have a very good understanding of the topic, but should be open to all opinions. The audience has already read the story. Although they have read the story, everyone is going to have different outlooks and perspectives on the topic pertaining to “The Story of an Hour”.
Audience-writer relationship: Seeing that this is an online class, I do not know much about the audience that will be reading my rhetorical analysis. I am assuming that they all have different perspective and are understanding of different opinions. I only know one girl that is in the class, but other than that, I do not know anyone.
Writers Role: My role as the writer is to get the audience to clearly understand why Kate Chopin wrote what she did, and how it reflects with her own life. I am sure that everyone
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Mallard felt, and her change in identity by her role as a women in the 1800 's. Kate Chopin does a wonderful job at really showing the audience what is going on in Mrs. Mallards mind. Her optimism is very quickly changed by a brief session at the window, then quickly ripped away by a glance at the door. Chopin stating that Mrs. Mallard had heart problems proposed more than just a delicate telling of the death of her husband. It became much more than that. Even much more than what Josephine, Brently, and the doctors thought. Although this story seems very interesting and new to us it was far to familiar to women in the 19th century. Chopin used the gloomy wording and gave out the saddening feeling to help you understand the true context of the story. Now what just seemed like a short story, has so much meaning behind

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