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Tonight, we'll be reading from the 1899 novel by Kate Chopin, The Awakening.

Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf Coast

at the end of the 19th century. The plot centers on Edna Pontelet and her struggle between her increasingly

unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing

social attitudes of the turn of the century American South. The awakening is widely seen as a landmark work of

early feminism and a precursor of American modernist literature. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. The Awakening, one, a green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over.

Alle-Wouin, Al-Wouin, sa Pursti, that's all right.

He could speak a little Spanish and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mockingbird that hung on the

other side of the door, whistling his flutie notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.

Mr. Pontelyea, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation

of disgust. He walked down the gallery. of Disg

He walked down the gallery and across the narrow bridges which connected the

labro cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of the main house.

The parrot and the mockingbird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the

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