Realism

1. Read "A Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. You should be able to identify the following in this story: a. details that specifically explain a characters actions, or detailed descriptions of a setting. a social issue that Chopin wants to solve Write a paragraph response to a and b in which you explain how this story includes these aspects of realism. Each paragraph should have some direct evidence from "A Story of an Hour"

A. the way this story has realism is that it goes in to detail about how a women first heard about her husband who had died in a work accident. when the woman first was told that her husband was killed so was really heart broken. she relied on her sister for fiscal support and emotionally. After that she wanted to be alone in her room to rest. Once in her room she rested but she couldn't help to think that now she is a widow she can do what ever she wants with out having to ask for her husbands pemiton. Although she did love him very much she was happy and sad about her situation. D.E. : But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.

B. The social problem that i think she wanted to solve was that men had to much power over what their wife's. Also i think she really wanted to fix the power that men had over women in general. D.E. :There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

.2. Read "The Battle with Mr Covey" by Frederick Douglass. Follow the same directions for #1. Go further on this one to explain what you think Douglass' purpose was for writing this. Your response should be three paragraphs.

2. the way this story has realism is that it goes in to great detail about how a slave would be treated by his boss. when the slave was working out side one day he grew incredibly ill. when his boss notice that he had stoped working he came out and went straight to him and found out what was wrong with him. I was thinking that he was going to give the slave some water or something to help him get back to work but man was i wrong. what the boss ended up doing was beating him up by kicking him repeatedly and telling him to get up. When the boss saw that he was not able to get back to work he gave the slave a blow to the head. D.E. : He gave me another kick , and again told me to rise. D.E. #2 Covey took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half-bushel measure, and with it he gave me a HEAVY blow upon the head, making a large wound and the blood ran freely. reading this made me think about how people didn't care back then for another human bean and it makes me soooo mad that this happened back then.

b. The social issue that Chopin was trying to get resolved was slavery and human rights. why i say slavery is obvious . it made me even more mad that when the slave escaped and had went to his master and told him that if he stayed with Chopin he was going to die. and his master didn't even care. All he said is that he knew Chopin and he knew that he was a good man and would not kill him because it would cost him a whole years worth of wages. I think he wanted to get human rights solved as well. I mean who now and days would let these things happen to some one.

3. Provide a modern example of realism (Boyz in tha Hood, and Menace II Society, for that matter are off-limits). This can be music, a movie, a television show, a book, or whatever you may choose. You need to explain how it is realism, and provide an example from your choice (a lyric, description of a scene, quote, etc.)

3. the modern example i think of realism is how the economy is bad. my example is that the government is giving car dealerships money. it is called cash for clunkers! i think this was a really good idea for the economy to kind of fix it self. For one the dealers get money then people with cars that take up a whole lot of gas to run get switched out for cars than have a better gas mileage. in the long run bad cars get taken off the road, we got a car that works, and the earth has a little bit of the load taken off of its self( the air).