Answer the writing prompt in two or three paragraphs.
you have just finished a lesson that discussed the philosophical argument of kate chopin’s “story of an hour.” her philosophical argument was that men and women are equals but that society denies women their full humanity. although this story was published more than 100 year ago, many people feel that women are still denied the full humanity granted to men. describe how the story reveals her philosophical argument and explain whether or not you agree with her argument and why or why not.

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? to show where the shoes came from to show how valuable the shoes were to reveal why stanley was arrested to give background on the homeless shelter