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Read the opening and closing sentences of the short story 'The Hour' by Kate Chopin

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Post your 3-5 sentence narrative extension to the opening or ending here...

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Post your 3-5 sentence narrative extension to the opening or ending here...

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Post your creative continuations here - either starting with the opening sentence, or ending with the closing one (choose one or the other). You can type or write your narratives, and upload them by clicking on the '+' below. Add your name! Read each others responses...

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Post here your ideas and predictions about the story, based on your creative responses. 

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Post here your ideas and predictions about the story, based on your creative responses. 

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What ideas will the story explore? From whose narrative point of view id the story told? What might happen? etc...

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'Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.'

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'When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills.'

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Watch this brief biography.
Think: Does it add to your thoughts about your creative responses and predictions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TDXOhOzIG0

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I believe that Mrs Mallard died of heartbreak, as at the begging we are informed that she has trouble with her heart. With the knowledge that her husband has died we can predict that these statements could link without reading the middle of the story

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I believe that Mrs Mallard died of heartbreak, as at the begging we are informed that she has trouble with her heart. With the knowledge that her husband has died we can predict that these statements could link without reading the middle of the story

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Lovely ideas and rationale! Who are you? Please add your name! (Mrs A)

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The story begins in a very capturing way that engages the author immediatly. We learn something about the characters life with no background information. The reader is predicted to sympathise for Mrs Mallard without knowing her personality, age or appearance. The reader begins to hypothesise what will happen in this story, as we know that Mrs Mallard has heart problems.

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The story begins in a very capturing way that engages the author immediatly. We learn something about the characters life with no background information. The reader is predicted to sympathise for Mrs Mallard without knowing her personality, age or appearance. The reader begins to hypothesise what will happen in this story, as we know that Mrs Mallard has heart problems.

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Hi there - thanks for this - really interesting! But my instructions were not clear enough (I've edited them now!) Can you actually continue the story - rather than commenting on it analytically?  (Mrs Anderson)

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I think that Kate's tragic past is mirrored in her writing as the story's beginning and end are both very upsetting. I sympathise her as from a young age she lost many loved ones and I think that she must have felt very alone and betrayed. However I can tell that her writing her writing helped her overcome these. troublesome times as her stories are very capturing. From initially reading these stories I could not tell that she had an upsetting past, however after watching the short biography I can understand why she must have felt the need to write these stories.

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I think that Kate's tragic past is mirrored in her writing as the story's beginning and end are both very upsetting. I sympathise her as from a young age she lost many loved ones and I think that she must have felt very alone and betrayed. However I can tell that her writing her writing helped her overcome these. troublesome times as her stories are very capturing. From initially reading these stories I could not tell that she had an upsetting past, however after watching the short biography I can understand why she must have felt the need to write these stories.

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The story starts in a very intriguing way which engages us readers from the very start. One of the characters are poorly, and are about to die. This captures our attention and hooks us in the story because we do not know why she is ill and how she became poorly. The reader begins to imagine what will happen in the story, because we then know that Ms Mallard may have heart problems.

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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news that of her husbands death. She was called into the hospital by a kind looking nurse called Miss Baker, when she spoke it sounded like the soft hum of a harp “ now ma’am it has come to our attention that a great tragedy has occurred but you must stay calm.”
“Ok?,” replied Mrs. Mallard, hesitating.

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continuation:

He was brutally stabbed. Was it planned or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? The world was meant to be in quarantine. Everyone was locked in their houses. Who made it into her house? He was ice cold. The murderer was probably long gone by now. Who was the mystery killer?

-zahra

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After all, even an able-bodied person would almost certainly collapse in terror after hearing  how Mr Mallard passed away. Oh, how gruesome and bloody he was when the detectives found him; how his head was severed from his head, blood dripping from his stump of a neck; how the only weapon found at the scene was Mrs Mallard's hat pin...

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After all, even an able-bodied person would almost certainly collapse in terror after hearing  how Mr Mallard passed away. Oh, how gruesome and bloody he was when the detectives found him; how his head was severed from his head, blood dripping from his stump of a neck; how the only weapon found at the scene was Mrs Mallard's hat pin...

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Angelina

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She slowly crept out of the door and down the corridor. Blood trailing behind her, she quietly sobbed into her hands and looked up at the ticking clock. Ten minutes, that’s all the time she had, she had to run down the corridor up the stairs through the doors to freedom. She heard shouts as people realised what she had done......she burst through the doors to freedom. And fell. Suddenly. To the ground. She had stopped the machine. Stopped his life support. And slowly it dawned on her that she was free. When the doctors came they said she had dies of heart disease-of joy that kills.

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She did not leave her room for days, and there was a fear that she had let her sadness take over her, and had taken her own life. People came and went, trying to get her to open up to them, share her feelings, accept the news. But she would not see them. Each and every time there was a knock on her door, she sent the helpers away.
It was her younger brother, James who broke the news to her. He began vaguely, with no real direction of where he was going with his sentence., but slowly started to reveal small pieces of information. Mrs Mullard eventually got the hint, and broke down. Collapsing on her sister’s shoulder, the last thing she would say to someone for three days was:”He was meant to come back.”

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Charlotte too - these look great! (Mrs A)

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As she crept slowly through the corridor, she heard hushed whispers from the drawing room

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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. It was with great devastation, Dr Smithereens prepared to tell her. Does he let it down slowly? Pull the whole band-aid off? Taking in a deep breath, he creaked open the door…

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The first sentence intruiges the audience as it includes a sense of 

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The first sentence intruiges the audience as it includes a sense of 

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Really enjoying reading these, girls - some dramatic stuff!  And some really nice uses of language in places.  Keep them coming!  Remember to put your name on your work. (Mrs A)

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Have a go at splitting the hour of the story into 7 minutes portions...

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Have a go at splitting the hour of the story into 7 minutes portions...

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You will have to print off this doc or re-draw the boxes in your pink book.  You are then going to work out what happens in each (roughly) 7 minute chunk of 'The Story of an Hour' and represent it in a box....

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Knowing that Mrs Mallard was afflicted with a heart  trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death. Little did they know that no care needed to be taken. While he was alive Mr Mallard had not been the best husband, although perhaps he had been the worst.Mrs Mallard was the way she is: shy,anti-social  and anxious because of her late husbands behaviour. So to her, the years of endless abuse and hysteria finally coming to an end would set her free. It would let her (even with her age) feel young and in control of her now peaceful life. She was no killer but the thought of Mr Mallard passing away had been in her mind for some time. It had first come to her in a dream, and while their traumatic relationship continued it came to her more vividly. Soon she didn’t have to wait for herself to fall asleep to imagine herself happy.She now thought about him dead all day, while cooking,while cleaning,while responding to his needs.Now at last her dreams were reality.

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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death. It was in that waiting-room, with only the low hum of the air conditioner filling the silence, that the news had been broken to her. She had merely nodded and sighed deeply. Seconds turned to minutes passing by as the woman’s form became smaller and smaller in the chair as if it had engulfed her whole. Muffled cries escaped from her lips as she sat hunched over, closing her eyes tightly. He had been taken from her too early. How many happy moments could she not share with him? How many hugs and kisses would she never experience? Would their paths ever cross again?

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I think that the story will be explored through the viewpoint of Mrs Mallard as she is seemingly the focal point of the first paragraph. The story may be about what she did in the time period between the news being told to her and her death at the end of the story. It may also explore the feelings of others around Mrs Mallard - "But Richards was too late" suggests that Richards was doing something in relation to her.

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The room, was filled with Lifenessnes and sorrow, everyone was blank faces and silent. Mrs Mallards eyes were blood red and her heart was torn into shreads. It had felt like the world had stopped, the was no action, no children playing, no cars horns honking, nothing. They sat in the room for days, everyday the time went by slowly, there was no noise. Nobody had any reason to speak, show emotion or do anything, they just sat like forgotten dolls, that knew they would never be happy again.

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I think although this story is in third person, that this story is by Mrs Mallards point of view as it explores complex emotions that nobody else would know she was feeling.The story also incorporates her movements during the hour and describes her surroundings such as ‘patches of blue sky’ which contrast her negative emotions.

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I think that knowing her life's events adds another layer of meaning behind her stories - The Hour can be seen as a reflection of her own experiences as in both stories a man is killed in a railroad accident. The misery that Mrs Mallard goes through could be a representation of herself in the same situation and is a recall of her own emotions.

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I think that her husband dies and he must have been extremely controlling or abusive or she just might have not loved him. When he dies and the news is broken to her I think that she must be so happy that she is horrified with herself so she dies.

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It is intriguing because you find out that her husband has died and it makes you wonder how he has died. It also make you feel sorry for her because she has heart troubles even though we don’t know anything about her.

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After watching this interesting video,I think that we can take a lot more from her writing because we know that several of the emotions felt in the story were felt by Kate herself. We can also start to pick out pieces in the story that could reflect her traumatic past.

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I think the story will be told in third person, telling us their experiences and joys together. I think the story will show how happy and lively Mrs Mallards past was with her husband was and what they did together. I think that it will keep on going back in time to their memories and then show what she is like now. I think she died of true heartbreak and how they world was worth living for then, but not anymore.

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The police marched up the creaking stairs hearts heavy as they prepared to tell mrs mallard that she was now a widow to a murdered husband. The police force knocked at her door and waited for a reply, no reply came they knocked again this time louder and yet still no reply came infact  the room was so quiet it felt void of any human life at all, fear settled over them as they started to gently pull the door handle down, like ripping of a bandaid the chief of police barged in to the room. It was a mistake. Blood covered the room the same way that the fear had already done as they realised it was too late for mrs mallard

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I feel like Kate feelings and life experiences have been put in her books. What she went through some very hard experiences throughout her life, and I think she added some of her experiences and emotions into her books, so that the reader  would have an understanding of her life and her emotions. You can see from her writing that there are elements of her life and feeling and thing in the story that she and other people who have gone through this can relate and connect with.

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I think it might follow the pattern of a murder mystery investigating the death of mr mallard and the effects the death might of had on mrs mallard or maybe she could have killed him as she was unhappy in the marriage and felt trapped by him

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You can tell how much heart she put into her books probably because she has had a similar experience, her books were probably used by her as an outlet for how she was feeling

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The start of the story really captures the reader as it’s tragic. To start with a character dying and another sick makes the reader really want to read on. You want to see how the loss effects the character especially as the other character is sick. We know that there is large possibility that the other character will die but we still have hope so we get attached and when they die later it effects us even more.

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I think that Mrs Mallad will go through a hard break up and it will really effect her and her physical state as she a.resdy has a lethal condition. I have a feeling it will get too hard for her to cope and after the reader gets attached to the character she will die.

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I think watching this video we can understand and enjoy her writing much more as we understand the emotions that Kate was feeling while writing this and I think it adds another layer of depth.

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I think the story will explore Mrs Mallard’s heartbreak over someone very close to her (e.g. her husband, her child, her grandchild etc.) and how the struggle to not fully recover from the immense grief got to her and potentially lead to her own unfortunate passing

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I think that as with most writers, Kate’s stories are mirroring her own personal experiences (most likely because it’s easier to write a character people can empathise with) as a result of the tragic incidents in her life

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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her the news of husband's death. Mrs Mallard's gentleness was known to all, and this news was bound to break her. Meanwhile, Mrs Mallard sat, eyes perpetually closed to the harshness of the world; the pain contained there, that she knew was inevitable. Because her husband hadn't come home. Not since Sunday. Mrs Mallard heaved quiet sighs, sighs that escaped into the air, taking away some of the growing trepidation she felt as the hours passed...

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I think this story will go on to explain how Mrs Mallard herself went on to die-"they said she had died of heart disease"- the story will probably go through the stages of Mrs Mallard breaking under the pain of losing her husband.

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This video was very illuminating, as it shows how much Kate's writing and stories reflect her own traumatic experiences and past, and how she used writing as an outlet. This adds another layer to her stories, as we now know this is her recalling her emotions in a certain time in her life, and can understand that some bits from the story are real and raw.

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Knowing that Mrs Mallard’s was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death. It was undoubtedly certain, if presented in the wrong way, would cause her passing too. Athough of course, it hadn’t been confirmed he was deceased, but the previous day’s events made it practically impossible for him to have escaped with his life.

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I think the narrative will be from Mrs Mallard and will we find out how her husband dies. I also believe that she died of a heart problem, but it is described as ‘of joy that kills’ which makes me think she wanted him dead.

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I think that Mrs.Mallard will become very lonely and might go mad or become dilusional as it’s a gothic 19th centrury story and these are common themes. Her husband might come back as a ghost or something like that or the funeral might be creepy. But maybe is he comes back he will only have an hour, hence the title