Every storm creeps upon us, hits a high point, and then fades away into nothing. In "The Storm," the author Kate Chopin describes the way that a thunderstorm is like the good and bad times in a person's life. She uses the beginning of the storm to describe the feelings, the climax of the storm to describe the temptations, and thunder and lightning of the storm to describe the deception of a young housewife and …
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…loud that anyone might have heard them as far away as Laballière's" (116). And Alcee did the same with his wife Clarisse. Unfortunately Clarisse and Bobinôt will never know what kind of storm really hit on that hot summer day. Works Cited Page Chopin, Kate. "The Storm." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 8th Ed. New York: Longman, 2002. 112-116