The Night Came Slowly - C1 - – learn american English through short stories
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Hi there!
My name is Mrs. P. Welcome to my class!
Today’s story is called “The Night Came Slowly”
by a woman named Kate Chopin.
Now, although this story is very short, it really delves into human nature and their
influence, and how they fail, and their fears that they
have Kate writes how she feels more connected with
nature than she does with humans.
It’s really deep, kind of reflective writing, almost like poetry.
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So, let’s get started.
The Night Came Slowly By Kate Chopin
I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their
actions.
Some one has said it is better to study one man than ten books.
I want neither books nor men; they make me suffer.
Can one of them talk to me like the night – the Summer night?
Like the stars or the caressing wind?
The night came slowly, softly, as I lay out there under the maple tree.
It came creeping, creeping stealthily out of the valley,
thinking I did not notice.
And the outlines of trees and foliage nearby blended in one black mass
and the night came stealing out from them, too,
and from the east and west, until the only light was in the sky,
filtering through the maple leaves and a star looking down through every cranny.
The night is solemn and it means mystery.
Human shapes flitted by like intangible things.
Some stole up like little mice to peep at me.
I did not mind.
My whole being was abandoned to the soothing and penetrating charm of the night.
The katydids began their slumber song: they are at it yet.
How wise they are.
They do not chatter like people.
They tell me only: “sleep, sleep, sleep.”
The wind rippled the maple leaves like little warm love thrills.
Why do fools cumber the Earth!
It was a man’s voice that broke the necromancer’s spell.
A man who came today with his “Bible Class.”
He is detestable with his red cheeks and bold eyes and coarse manner and speech.
What does he know of Christ?
Shall I ask a young fool who was born yesterday and will die tomorrow to tell me things of
Christ?
I would rather ask the stars: they have seen him.
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