Log in

View Full Version : Help me please



Shakira
12-30-2006, 12:41 AM
Hi guys...I desperately need your help...

I am making my project on the suicide part / the ending of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. My project is ready but I don't have a suitable title for it.:bawling: I know its a silly way to make a project without thinking about the title.:alien: But please help me out. Please suggest me a title or give me any hints for thinking about it.

Jean-Baptiste
12-30-2006, 01:10 AM
Hi, Shakira! :wave:
A Kate Chopin project--how exciting!
I've never been good at coming up with catchy titles, but perhaps you could sift a title out of this passage:

The trouble is,' sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, 'that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'
'Yes,' she said. 'The years that are gone seem like dreams--if one might go on sleeping and dreaming--but to wake up and find--oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.'
This is found in chapter 38. I'm still not sure of suggesting a specific title from it, but it seems like a very poignant passage, and rife with statements of theme--a real breeding ground for title material.

This may not be of much help, but I hope it is.

Shakira
12-30-2006, 03:48 AM
Hey Jean thanks for the reply...However, I want a title that would substantiate my view supporting or explaining Edna's suicide...I did think about "Surviving Edna" but on Google a research paper already exists by this name...