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The Story of an Hour
Introduction:
1. Introduce about the author, Kate Chopin and her poet “The Story of an Hour”, also talk about the background and setting (late 1900s in Missouri), and main character (Mrs. Mallard)…
_ Women back in 1900s were living very dependent; freedom was what they always dreamed of. In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin introduces to the reader Louis Mallard, a typical woman back in 1900s and her dream of freedom.
2. Thesis statement: your point of view and what you want to argue. (Argue against the doctors when they said that “she had died from heart disease-of joy that kills.”)
_”When the doctors came and they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills” (Chopin 339). The doctors were right and they also were wrong. She did not die from the joy of seeing her husband coming back to life but from losing her future and freedom.
3. Sources that supports your thesis statement.
She went back to her room, looked outside the window and saw a different sky.
She kept saying “free, free, free!” and “Free! Body and soul free!”
When she walked out of her room and “there was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory.”
She loved her husband sometimes but often she has not.
Seeing her husband opened the door puts her into a deeper depression that killed her suddenly.
Body:
1. Kate Chopin mentions in the beginning of the story that Mrs. Mallard a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible.

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