Desiree's Baby

Diamond Bell
AP English III
Desiree’s Baby
10/13/09

In the story of Desiree’s Baby it refers to all the discriminations in America now. It has the faults of race and gender. It creates an image of history in a more interesting manner. This phenomenal story was created by the realistic author Kate Chopin. She created an emotional story that reveals to the readers and audience who knew of this story. The pathos that was used in this story contained the love of the mother but the hatred of Armand because the baby turned out to be somewhat black. Kate’s writing reflects on her, because she is Creole-French. The quote that was first used was, "When she reached L'Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always did. It was a sad looking place...Big solemn oaks grew close to it and their thick leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall". That quote already expressed to me that the ending of the story was going to have a bad turn out because it is a foreshadowing quote. Chopin related to the story at first hand because she grew up among the blacks being inferior to the whites because the blacks were slaves. The thing that made the story a great story to read was the diction. The words that Chopin used helped me as the reader create an image rather than just to sit there and read words on a piece of paper. She helped me analyzed why she wrote what she wrote and what was the true meaning of it. The story is against having black descent and being a woman. If a white man would have had a child by a black women he would have been looked at differently than Desiree, because she had a baby in which she adored by a black man. All odds were against Desiree in the story because she was having a baby, she was a woman, and the baby wasn’t all white. Kate Chopin points out main details that no one can really identify with today. Now in today’s society women are doing more than men and making more money. The way Chopin described women were ad they had to have a baby by the same race and take care of the home. She touched on many points about the baby’s skin tone and the ethnicity of the baby. Why didn’t Chopin use a white male as the main character and a black woman as the one who is pregnant? Did Chopin want to make it worse than it already was back the? She used the entire rhetorical triangle and created a theme of injustice society back then and the difficulties of discrimination.