Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story

In two to four double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference page), demonstrate your understanding of literary themes, using a short story from the readings in week one or two:

Describe what the theme of the short story is, using Chapter 6 of the text as a reference.
Identify at least two of the literary elements in the short story that contribute to the theme (e.g., plot, point of view, tone, setting, character, symbolism, etc.), providing an example of each element.
Explain how the selected literary elements affect the narrative theme

Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how the literary elements contribute to the larger narrative theme. All sources must be properly cited. The paper must include a separate title and reference page, and be formatted to APA (6th edition) style.

The paper must be two to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference page), and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least two scholarly resources (at least one of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library) other than the textbook to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page.

Clugston, R. W. (2014). Journey into literature (2nd ed.). San Diego, California: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

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The theme of the story of an hour is based upon conflict in marriage whereby the author Kate Chopin develops two characters i.e Louise Mallard and her husband Mr. Mallard. The author uses the third party limited point of view to support this theme as she takes the reader through a myriad of thoughts that were bombarding Louise’s mind upon receiving the news of the demise of her husband. She whispered to herself gently “freedom!”. This clearly depicts that her marriage devoured off her freedom and especially her husband. Despite his death causing her grief it came along with a great gift as well of offering freedom something that more valuable to love and marriage …

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