Kate Chopin

"The Story of an Hour"

The story of an hour is a story about a woman that is married to a man that probably mistreats her and he hold her down to what she wants to do. She cannot do things she wants to do just because he wouldn't let her.In the story the woman finds out that her husband is dead thats what her sister told her she was shocked and her sister tought that she was going to burst out crying she later went into her house and locked herself in there she was so happy and cheerful to know that her husband was dead and later her sister went to visit her, she did not want to open the door and her sister kept begging.When she finally open the door her sister asked her are you okay she said she was and that she was so happy because she was finally free to do anything she wanted.After a while there was a knock on the door and it was her husband she was so shocked that she dropped DEAD.

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"The Blind Man"

This story was about a man who was blind.He did not use a walking stick,and he had to work for a living he sold pencils.In the summer he knocks on peoples doors and asks them if they would like to buy any pencils they would say no or either some of them wouldn't even be at their house because they went on a vacation or they just ignored him. Everytime he wanted to open a gate or ring the bell it took him a lot of time in order for him to those things, even though he would be walking and the sun was extremely hot people would just look at him and not even cross him to the other side of the street. Kids even want to steel pencils from him, He once went to a rich guy's house and he wanted to sell some pencils to him he told him to get out of his property and go sell them to someone else.Later as he was about to cross the street there were some big trucks a rich guy crossed the street without even looking to both sides of the street to see if any cars were coming, he was late to go see his family because they were going to go to their summer house somewhere & he got ranned on by the cars and died.The blind man didn't even notice that had happened he just heard people talking and "doctor".

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"Desiree's Baby"

Desiree's baby is mainly a story about racism it talks about how people that are white are the one's that boss the black ones around & the black are the slaves and servants of the white people.Its about a woman that is married and she has a child and then the start fighting only because the baby looks kind of black and the husband thinks that the woman is black then the wife leaves and when she does the husband starts burning all the things that the wife and the baby touched,SUDDENLY he found a letter were it said that his mother was black and his father was white!