Story Of An Hour Rhetorical Analysis

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The Story of an Hour

The story of an hour was told of the heart break of love lost. The story tells how the importance of family and friends when you need them there for support. When going through an emotional ordeal like losing your husband or wife many have a hard time accepting or dealing with the lost which may cause serious illness. Josephine is the hero in this story when she decided to tell her sister in the loss of her husband, she became the one at the end who Mrs. Mallard leaned on for support. “Mrs. Mallard sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences”. The fear of breaking someone heart or revealing news that could cause harm has to be told in a way that the person on the receiving in can prepare for mentally. Josephine hinted around the matter because she was afraid Mrs. Mallard …show more content…

From this story line “The Story of an Hour” was based on one women and her husband who served in the military, as we appreciate our service men and women they sometime don’t make it back home to us. Dealing with the pain of not seeing that person ever again can be devastating and the emotions are felt as you read the story line.

Sentence 5: Tells me that Mrs. Mallard was feeling a since of peace that her husband was speaking to her and saying he was a peace. As she looked up at the clouds feeling something or someone is reaching out to her. We all want to believe that our love one’s reaches out to us after death, this sometime helps us to move on. The tone of the storyline gives us love and sorrow. Society take losing someone differently and when reading this story you can feel the passion and love from the people surrounding Mrs. Mallard; her husband’s friend Richards stopped what he was doing to go and be by her side, as well as her

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