Kate Chopin's View Of Death Essay

There’s a lot of ways to death, because we’re all different in a way of our diet, health, activities, jobs, aging, and many other more. In the story of an hour by Kate Chopin, the author view at the death differently from the man to send rain clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. Chopin story of death was by health problem, when one of the lines state “Mrs. Millard was afflicted with a heart trouble” 1156. Silko view of death and how they deal with is different from Chopin story because Silko story involved different cultural and religion. It was Indian cultural and religious beliefs and Christianity beliefs. Since the religious are different the way each religious deal with death different.
Mrs. Millard was told that her husband has died in the rail road accident by her husband friend Richards. Richard was in the news station when his friend name was in the lists of killed in the railroad

accident. However the death person was not confirming by him or Mr. Millard family. And they just thought he was gone and Mrs. Millard grieving her husband death and at the same she had the thought that she will now be free from her husband bad treatment. One of the line states “free! Body and soul free” 1157, she now knows that she’ll be an independence woman. There’ll be no husband to treat her badly and she can enjoy her life the way she wants to. She’ll have no one to look out to and free from her marriage life. She can enjoy her life happily and do the things she wants to do because she was still young. I think “facing the open window” 1156 symbolized that there are many doors open for her and a lot of opportunity that she want to have and can’t have while she was with her husband. Its open doors for her to walk out and start a fresh life because she wasn’t happy in her marriage life with her husband Mr. Millard.
I think the title itself was interesting “the story of an hour”1156 because she was grief but she soon realize that now she be free on her own and think about her independent. Her husband used to treat her badly, but now there’ll be no such person who will treat her with a bad manner. Her husband death was reported to the news station fast and wasn’t confirming that the death body was Mr. Millard, and it matter of hour that Mr. Millard return home just fine. However Mrs. Millard had died of heart disease. Mrs. Millard had just thought had just thought about her freedom but she was the one who had gone first before her husband.
In the story of the man to send rain clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Two brothers found their grandfather death in the sheep camp and both brother first words spoken in the story was “send us rain clouds, Grandfather”, they paint their grandfather face and did what things in Indian traditions. When a catholic priest asks them about their grandfather they told him not to worry. They didn’t tell him the truth because they don’t want other religious involved in their tradition burial. In an Indian tradition neighbor brought foods to funeral house for the grave digger to eat after they had done the grave digging. Louise asks Leon to go ask priest to sprinkle holly water to Teofilo grave. The priest was sad that Leon and Ken didn’t tell him the truth. He only found out Teofilo death when Leon went to ask him to sprinkle holy water to Teofilo grave so that “he won’t be thirsty” was said by Louise, they didn’t want other religious to involved but they let them involved in the end. The priest doesn’t want to follow Leon at first but he changes his mind and follows Leon to the grave

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“He felt good because it was finished” and “he was happy about sprinkling holy water” because of what they believe Leon was happy because their Grandfather could send them rain clouds. They didn’t want other religion to involve to in the end they did let them involved and was happy about the sprinkling water because their grandfather could be happy because he won’t be thirsty in his death. However it just the way cultural different burial the death and they didn’t exactly do burial in a traditional ways but they didn’t forget their tradition.
Both stories were about death and it was an interesting story because one is from the other cultural. Death can come in many ways in unexpected time, place, and events. The different were Mr. Millard death wasn’t confirmed and Teofilo death was confirmed by two grandsons Leon and Ken. Mrs. Millard died of heart disease and Teofilo death might be aging.

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