Chopin

=//**The Awakening **// = = =

**by Kate Chopin **

** Set in 1898, New Orleans and ** ** Grand Isle, LA **

JOURNAL TOPICS for chapters 1-5:

- character and setting details - repetition of words or images - the narrative voice - issues of confinement/freedom, power/subordination, money/ownership - ideas about motherhood and mothering

LATER CHAPTERS - add:

- the sea, the sun - colors - food, eating & drinking

And don't forget to QUOTE important lines!!

__B__iography of Kate Chopin

Background Information Website

In the Year 1905

Neal Wyatt essay

Thoughts on the Self (Kidd)

Mythological Ties

Found Poem

3 x 3

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

RELATED ARTICLES:

A.) Sept. '10 //Newsweek// article on the new "Men's Liberation" movement

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/20/why-we-need-to-reimagine-masculinity.html

B.) July/August feature in //The Atlantic// on "The End of Men"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135

C.) June '10 article from the //New York Times// on "imperfect mothers"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/fashion/06Culture.html

D.) June '10 feature //Newsweek// article on the declining need for marriage

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/11/i-don-t.html

E.) March '09 //NYT Magazine// essay on women's economic independence

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/magazine/14fob-wwln-t.html

F.) Sept. 09 article in the //Huffington Post// on the decline of women's happiness

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-buckingham/whats-happening-to-womens_b_289511.html

G.) July '09 //Time Mag//. article about the changing nature of American marriage

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908243-1,00.html