Realism

A story of an hour:


The Realist were people who told things straight up.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all quiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. The story took place in a bedroom while a lady is weeping not only because she afraid to die but the news of her husbands death. She understood a whole lot more since here daughter told her one was happening. realism is sort of the same thing because they thought if people were told up front about the sittuation they would understand a whole lot more.

"She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms". Shes crying which indicates that she is sad or probably in pain from the heart disease she has.



Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg, open the door--you will make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."
"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window"

I think the social issue is don't drink because you might end up dying from too much, especially because of the death of a loved one.



The Battle With Mr. Covey:

"If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. [Edward] Covey. We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow too hard for us to work in the field". Ii think the story takes places on a plantation, with other workers and an overseer's.

Fredrick Douglas was a strong individual that realized to stand up to Mr. Covey all he wanted was to catch a little break because the weather got to him.



Belly:
The story of belly is a great example of realism.
It portrays how hard it is for an African American or middle class citizens to make money without resorting to violence or the selling of drugs. If realism focuses on the central point of an social or economical topic then this move is tied in as being realistic.