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The main character in this 153-page novel was a married woman with 2 children, Edna Pontellier. Her "awakening" is of a woman growing to discover herself, her highly independent nature, and of course has a sensuous affair with another man, all of which were unheard of in that time.

She reminds me of the person Kate Chopin, the author, was reported to be of herself; although married with 6 children, she was exceptional unconventional and progressive for her time period. Marriage did nothing to prevent her from being so. She dressed unconventionally, took long unchaperoned walks, and smoked cigarettes. Upon her husband's sudden death, she took over the management of the Chopin family plantation in Louisiana and began writing seriously; short stories and two novels.
Now back to our story. Edna, her husband, and two boys are staying in a beach cottage in France. Mr. Pontellier, who the husband is usually referred to, has a brokerage business, and is frequently away working in the city. He is a traditional man of the times, and goes out at night to play pool and comes back late with money he has won. However, he is leaving Edna alone to her male friend, Robert, and to spend most of her days the way she wishes to. Robert does get frequent crushes on women, but the women merely flirt with him and remain married to their husbands in the way one would expect of them. Edna's best friend, Madame Ratignolle is truly the antithesis of Edna, is a devoted wife and protective maternal figure towards her children, and extremely feminine in appearance.
Edna is in no way a victim in this book. Her awakening to her new lifestyle is entirely of her own choosing. She does not need a man to complete her, although men are attracted to her, (more than one), she is strong, and autonomous in her own right. She takes huge risks and defies all of the rules set upon her by her husband and society. She becomes a modern woman.
This novel is beautifully written, and Chopin is a master in creating this, her last novel and writing. chopin was devastated by the harsh criticism that surrounded her novel's publication. That is why she stopped writing, and died 5 years later. If it weren't for women like Kate Chopin, who knows where women would be today. Thank God for all of those who rebelled against all of the conventions. This book might even inspire someone to attain new goals and move ahead in her own path.

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The ghost belongs to me!:::

1913. Alexander Armsworth is a normal boy until he sees a ghost of a girl in his barn, warning him of an impending disaster. This leads to him to become a local hero, but when he explains that a ghost warned him. It unburies the story on how she came to rest on their property, far from her home in New Orleans, Louisiana. He takes it upon himself to take her body home to New Orleans.
Main characters

Alexander Armsworth
13 years old, and a 7th grader at Horace Mann Middle School, he is informed by his classmate Blossom Culp, that he is receptive to ghosts. When she also tells him his barn is haunted, he thinks that she is playing a trick on him. Eventually he meets the ghost of Inez Dumaine, the ghost that haunts his barn. With her help he saves the lives of others when a mad man who weakened and set a fire to the supports for the trestle in hopes to crash the trolley. He becomes a famous local hero, but when he explains he had help from a ghostly source, it leads to a journey to return her body to New Orleans. With the help of Blossom, he eventually returns her body to New Orleans, to be placed within her family’s crypt.
Blossom Culp
She is a 12 year old girl, who first informs Alexander of his ability to see ghosts. She lives in a shack by the trolley tracks, and she helps out Alexander on his trip to return Inez’s body to New Orleans.Uncle Miles Armsworth
Alexander’s great uncle. He is a carpenter who works as he pleases. He is the only one who knew the history of Captain Campbell, and Inez Dumaine. He accompanies Blossom and Alexander to New Orleans, and to see to it that Inez returns home.
Inez Dumaine
She is the ghost that haunts the Armsworth barn. She warns Alexander about the man who damaged the trestle bridge, so he could save others. She tells him her body is buried nearby and asks to be returned to her family, who were “above ground, but they rest.”

BOOK TWO:::
Blossom Culp: fourteen-year-old girl, outcast, troublemaker, Gypsy, psychic? Living on the edge of Bluff City’s society, in a tiny dwelling furnished with whatever they can scrounge or with what mama’s skills as a Seer can earn, Blossom Culp is a bit of a misfit. After events on Halloween Night cause an uproar at school the next day, Lizzie finds herself embraced by some of those in Bluff City “who have already arrived,” as she delicately puts it. To the great distress of the stuck-up Letty Shambaugh, Blossom makes an appearance at the former’s little after school girl’s club. When Bluff City’s mean girls try to embarrass Blossom with a seance, she turns the table on them with aplomb—until the Universe turns the tables on Blossom herself. Suddenly burdened with the Sight, Blossom saves Letty’s brother’s life and gains a patroness, the eccentric Anglophile spinster Miss Dabney.

With Miss Dabney’s support and interest, Blossom explores her abilities, soon freeing Miss Dabney’s own ghost hired girl Minerva from her eternal torment. As a rousing second act, Blossom first appropriates then discredits the act of a traveling spiritualist, gaining widespread notoriety in the process. But it is when she is called to the carpet by her principal Miss Spaulding, and interviewed by a local newspaperman, that Blossom really gets going. When asked by Miss Spaulding and Mr Seaforth for a demonstration of her Powers—with the idea of disproving them, natch—Blossom sinks into a trance that takes her to a small boy named Julian, left by his parents to drown in Arctic waters. Coming to again, Blossom is soaked with icy salt water, and clutching a blanket embroidered, Royal Steamship Titanic.

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