Melissa Muthusammy
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English 102 Section 002
March 5, 2009 {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} {text:bookmark-end} {text:bookmark-end} The word sin means the doing of something wrong;I do not believe that any situation can be so amazing or horrid to commit a sin. The word ‘sin’ is used all over the Bible, “You shall not…,” it does not say it is okay to kill if the person did you harm, nor does it say to commit adultery if you do not feel loved or as important as you should feel to your spouse. Jesus turned his other cheek, he did not hit back, in the word of the Lord, a sin is a sin no matter the situation and there is always a punishment or repentance to be done. In Kate Chopin’s short story “_The Storm_,” she has a woman, Calixta, commit adulterywhile she is unaware of her husband and son’s whereabouts. Calixta, throughout the entire story leading up to her sinful act of adultery, fights the internal battle of knowing that she is married and she should not give into the temptation of an old lover, Alcée. Not only did Calixta commit a sin, so did Alcée, he coveted his neighbor’s wife, he was lustful and envious. From the way Chopin describes the character of Calixta, it could be interpreted that Calixta did not really love her husband, maybe it was an arranged marriage, but the one thing that did keep her fighting the temptation for as long as she did was the thought of her and Bobinôt’s son, Bibi, it seemed that only her child meant something to her, not hermarriage for over five years. Although the situation in Calixta’s mind was probably way worse, she probably saw her marriage as the worse, and felt that the only way to relieve her stress was to deceitfully let another man come between her marriage, whether Bobinôt would ever find out or not. Alcée knew what he was doing was wrong, even though he might have believed that he was the man who should have been married to Calixta, “As she glanced...