Westchester Community College: Valhalla Campus
Professor Melinda Roberts
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)


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  1. Fire destroyed the Kate Chopin House (the Bayou Folk Museum) at 243 La. Highway 495 in Cloutierville, Louisiana, early on October 1, 2008.

    "History dates construction of the house by slave labor to 1805 to 1809. Alexis Cloutier was the original inhabitant. Oscar Chopin bought it in 1879 and, years later, moved his wife and their six children to the plantation."
    --Shreveport Times


    -NICOLE L.

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  2. Kate Chopin's grandmother died three days before Christmas in 1863, the same year her friend Kitty was banished from the Scared Hearts Academy. Kate's half-brother, George, died in the war of typhoid fever on Mardi Gras Day and her father had died on All Saints day, eight years previously.All of these unfortunate incidents combined to create a strong skepticism of religion in Chopin.

    Alephia A.

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  3. Kate Chopin was born in to a very wealthy family in the 1850 and got married at a young age of 19. In 1868 Kate graduates from the Academy of the Sacred Heart.

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  4. Chopin died in 1904 at the age of 54 from a brain hemorrhage. She was buried in St. Louis.

    Michelle A.

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  5. Choplin had five boys, Jean, Oscar Charles, GEORGE, Frederick, and Felix. Oscar Charles becomes a professional cartoonist for the San Francisco Examiner and his daughter Kate, becomes a talented artist.

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  6. Kate Chopin grew up during the Civil War, and for that reason she was separated from the only friend she had made called Kitty Garesche.Kitty's family had to move because they supported the south, and St.Louis was pro- North City.Only after the Civil war, they came back and kate and Kitty were friends until Kitty became a nun.
    Angie A.

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  7. Kate Chopin's father was one of the founders of the Pacific Railroad. He died on its inaugural journey over the Gasconade Bridge in Missouri, after it collapsed. Perhaps this is the inspiration for the train accident in Chopin's "The Story of An Hour."

    -Zoe D.

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  8. "The Awakening," by Kate Chopin, has been adapted into two different films.
    Solange M.

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  9. Kate Chopin was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her startling 1899 novel, "The Awakening".

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  10. Kate Chopin was the only child to live past the age of twenty-five. Her sisters died in infancy and her brothers in their early twenties.
    - Victor W.

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  11. Kate Chopin was a forgotten Amercan voice until her literary reputation was resuscitated by critics in the 1950`s. Born Katherine O`Flaherty in St.Louis, she married Oscar Chopin when she was 20 and moved to her husband`s house in Louisiana. Kate Chopin acknowledged her debt to contemporary french naturalist Emile Zola and Guy de Maupassant.
    Andrew o.Ansah

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  12. Kate Chopin never made much money from her writings. She relied on investments that she had to sustain her.

    -Jeff M

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  13. Kate Chopin's mother, Eliza died in 1884, when Kate moved to live with her. Kate was by herself with her kids ant to support her family she started writing.

    Melissa H.

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  14. I think Kate Chopin's great grandmother Victoria Verdon Charleville had a vision for her future because she taught her french and music before she met her husband Oscar Chopin a french man.


    Marie E.

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  15. 1899 "The Awakening" was published in the writing there was to much sexual content in it so the writing was "dicovered" in 1950's where it was known for its beautiful and modern writing. In 1991, 87 years after her death, "A Vocation and a voice" was finally published because they did not know if it would get the same write up as the "The Awakening" did.

    ashley c

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  16. She worked very rapidly and made very few revisions. She usually worked surrounded by her children. -Robert Letizia

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  17. kates story the awakening 1899 was widely condemned, and critics called it morbid,vulgar and disaggreable.

    bilal j

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