Reflection Paper On The Story Of An Hour

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I chose to do a video/music project because it is something that I enjoy doing. I also think that it is one of the ways I am good at expressing myself. Some of the photos used in the video are from my wedding and others are from various mountainous locations I’ve hiked. The music I used not only expresses what I wanted to get across in the video but also what I listen to all the time. I didn’t randomly find songs on YouTube, I chose those songs and others to express the emotions and situations in my project.
As the video stated, “Story of an Hour” is about a relationship. The Mallards to be exact. The story itself is only two pages in length but it contains a lifetime. I used “Emotions in The Story of an Hour,” an analytical article written …show more content…

Mallard’s emotions and also on her relationship to her husband. I was trying to capture the emotions and feelings of a woman suppressed by everything, including her health. But for a moment she got to see freedom in front of her. She wished “life would be long” but it was swept away from her. She died, her heart couldn’t handle the loss of her newly gained emotional freedom. But in a way she regain her freedom by dying. She was carried away by “the joy that kills.” I ended on, what I hoped was, a happier note. I added a longer playlist (at the end) to look at the other moments I didn’t cover in my …show more content…

We, as the readers, only get a glimpse at these people’s lives. But we can see the story behind it. Mrs. Mallard had loved Mr. Mallard at some point, she admits as much. At some point that love was lost because Mr. Mallard suffocated his wife’s will/her emotions. We don’t see how he did this but the sister, the friend, and everyone else seem oblivious to this. But it wasn’t all ultimately for nothing. Her weakness, her poor health saved her. The whole story focuses on her heart and how it can’t be overburdened, but the thing that kills her is the thought of freedom to choose her future getting taken away from her. It is that behind the scenes, between the lines, relationship that is so important. It was a pain that was so horrible and so hidden that everyone mistook it for joy. All of this makes her death freeing because once her husband is shown alive that is her only way

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