Jim Wickes, Dalton, GA – During this year’s Reading, I had the pleasure of reading essays on an excerpt from a short story from 1895, Kate Chopin’s “Her Letters”, written about an unnamed female protagonist who struggles with the moral conflict and the physical act involved in burning letters from a former love interest. I felt this was a really accessible passage for students as the complexity of the situation wasn’t really difficult to find, but as in years past, students had a difficult time in demonstrating their understanding of how Chopin used literary devices to develop the complexity of the situation. For example, almost all students recognized the significance of the setting, the fact that it was raining outside juxtaposed against the warmth of the fire, but they didn’t necessarily pick up on how this juxtaposition served as a metaphor for how the narrator felt, the contrast between the stillness of the rain reflecting ... KEEP READING
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