From The Awakening

To start out this blog I would like to say that I was reading the beginning part of the story again. I read a page ahead to maybe learn more about Realism and I did learn a little bit as to what Realists believe. Here is a quote from the beginning pages, "Romanticism's glorification of the imagination became unappealing to Realists, who wanted to explore the motivations, behaviors, and actions of real people" ( "Realism" 490). I typed this quote in this blog because it is talking about what the Realists believed in in the Realism period. I found it very helpful to me to realize what Realism was all about. It also helped me with comparing with what Realists thought and what the story was all about.

Here is what the story was about. It is about a girl crying, and why she was crying. That is what I got out of this story. I do not know about other people or how they saw this, but I could see this as a Romanticism story also. I found that this girl had a lot of description within the story. Here is a quote to demonstrate what I meaning by description, "There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea that was not uplifted at that soft hour" (Chopin 491). This story also relates to Emerson's Nature story. His Nature story talked about the behaviors of people and how they react to things and the way people should act. This is relative to "The Awakening" because it talks about the girls behavior and how she is crying over something that she does not even know why (Chopin 491). In the story, "It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood" (Chopin 491). This is just describing as to what I was saying earlier when I said she did not know why she was crying. Overall, the two author's have the same kind of relation toward human behavior.

Bibliography

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts. Web. 06 Feb. 2012.

Chopin, Kate. "from The Awakening." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 491. Print.

"Realism." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 490. Print.