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Awakening
Title: Awakening
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 913 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Awakening
“In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-women seemed to
prevail that summer at the Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with
extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow as ministering angels.”(p.10)
Edna Pontellier, an outcast among her society, …showed first 75 words of 913 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 913 total…be crucial. The Creole society preached a life of routine and monotony , whereas Edna Pontellier lived for a life of excitement and freedom. Through the history of mankind, society has held beliefs that were said to be improper and twisted, and it is only through the eyes of those who did not fit into the puzzle of that specific lifestyle, that one is able to see theseaccepted ethics and ideals for what they truly are.
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