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The Night Came Slowly
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Write a story based on this famous excerpt from The Night Slowly Came by Kate Chopin:
The Night Came Slowly’ is a surreal, almost metaphorical, and partly religious short story or scrap penned by American writer Kate Chopin in 1894. In this short story, Kate shows her subjective love for Nature, who is unbiased and never speaks a lie. Books and Men are mostly biased and not true at the core. Chopin, an early American feminist, declares in this scrap that she neither wants nor thirsts for men or books. She gives the example of the Night that she loves, showing her fondness for the darker side of life. This indicates that she sees the world through her own feminine eyes and not men’s eyes. If she must see the world entirely through the eyes of a feminist, then she must do away with men altogether, which is taking the idea too far.
On the other hand, getting rid of most books penned since Kate Chopin’s time would be understandable because books were colored with men’s opinions. Very rarely have women been shown as having shaped history or events of their exploits recorded in books that have come down through the ages. Therefore, in this scrap titled ‘The Night Came Slowly’, the American writer Kate Chopin draws a line against men and, as I would put it, ‘their’ books. She prefers Nature to them and seems to personify the ‘Night’ here as if it were a wooing human or a heavenly spirit looking down upon her and making her not suffer.
‘The Night Came Slowly’ is short, but it is drowning in symbolism and mixed with Kate Chopin’s very broadminded views about the Christian faith, which makes the scrap a very challenging read....
Write a story based on this famous excerpt from The Night Slowly Came by Kate Chopin:
The Night Came Slowly’ is a surreal, almost metaphorical, and partly religious short story or scrap penned by American writer Kate Chopin in 1894. In this short story, Kate shows her subjective love for Nature, who is unbiased and never speaks a lie. Books and Men are mostly biased and not true at the core. Chopin, an early American feminist, declares in this scrap that she neither wants nor thirsts for men or books. She gives the example of the Night that she loves, showing her fondness for the darker side of life. This indicates that she sees the world through her own feminine eyes and not men’s eyes. If she must see the world entirely through the eyes of a feminist, then she must do away with men altogether, which is taking the idea too far.
On the other hand, getting rid of most books penned since Kate Chopin’s time would be understandable because books were colored with men’s opinions. Very rarely have women been shown as having shaped history or events of their exploits recorded in books that have come down through the ages. Therefore, in this scrap titled ‘The Night Came Slowly’, the American writer Kate Chopin draws a line against men and, as I would put it, ‘their’ books. She prefers Nature to them and seems to personify the ‘Night’ here as if it were a wooing human or a heavenly spirit looking down upon her and making her not suffer.
‘The Night Came Slowly’ is short, but it is drowning in symbolism and mixed with Kate Chopin’s very broadminded views about the Christian faith, which makes the scrap a very challenging read....
