Euthenasia - by Susan B. Wolf

Journey To Literature

To experience forms of literature, there is a decision to turn to an imaginary world to let go of routine. Our everyday lives escape into a world of imaginary things. Literature

can be as a journey the reader takes. Literature brings up new insights for the reader to enter into an imaginary world. There are many ways it can teach those who are brave enough to enter. Literature teaches insights that are different from those which are learned in ordinary life. This paper identifies pieces of literature that can begin a journey from the familiar into the unfamiliar. Some of the techniques used by the authors in these stories, poems, and plays to convey messages to the audience. It can explain important insights that can be gained. For example, in The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, her structure and style fit the subject. This story is short and covers many differences of irony. In this one hour in Louise Mallard's life, we take the journey with her in this period of time. In this short story, the author makes every sentence important by using a poetic writing style which makes this a powerful short story. Chopin uses words to indicate how much Louise accepts her new found freedom. Independence and joy can only be imagined. Suddenly, Louise has a reality that she is an independent woman. Chopin makes the style of the story beautiful using rhymes, and she uses repetition to highlight the important points. With Chopin's structure and style, they make this a very powerful short story.

In the late 19th century, women were expected to keep house, cook and rear children. Louise Mallard appears to have been a weak woman who consequently, during her

marriage, suffered constant stress which contributed to her heart trouble. The heart trouble afflicts Louise both physical and symbolic towards her marriage and lack of freedom. At the end of the story she dies.

The loss of joy is what killed Louise Mallard. She seems to have died of a broken heart caused by the loss of her independence. The open window, of which Louise gazes, are symbols of freedom after her husband has died. When Louise sees springtime, patches of blue sky showing through clouds, and birds singing. Everything she experiences through her senses represents new life. Her life away from the window is lost by the dominance of her husband and Louise loses her freedom and independence.

All short stories are not dramatic. Some dramatic stories have a plot where you have to give your attention to what is actually being revealed. For example, The Story of an Hour, does not have a plot. Only in the beginning after the death of her husband there is no action. Only a detail description of the Louise Mallard's behavior. This holds the story together and prepares the reader for the sudden realization which conveys the meaning of the story.

"There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air"(2.2)

To show as an example how irony is used as the central plot of the story, we have seen that the Necklace turned out to be of no value in the end of the story. Human

values are more important than