Emancipation: a Life Fable
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- Emancipation: a Life Fable by Kate Chopin
- There was once an animal born into this world, and opening his eyes upon Life, he saw above and about him confining walls, and before him were bars of iron through which came air and light from without; this animal was born in a cage.
- I am thirsty
- I am hungry
- Here he grew, and throve in strength and beauty under the care of an invisible protecting hand. Hungering, food was ever at hand. When he thirsted water was brought,
- Awaking one day from his slothful rest, lo! the door of his cage stood open: accident had opened it. In the corner he crouched, wondering and fearingly.
- What's out there?
- Then slowly did he approach the door, dreading theunaccustomed, and would have closed it, but for such a task his limbs were purposeless. So out theopening he thrust his head, to see the canopy of the sky grow broader, and the world waxing wider.
- What's behind that door? Should I leave ? What does freedom feel like?
- Back to his corner but not to rest, for the spell of the Unknown was over him, and again and again he goes to the open door, seeing each time more Light.
- I'm out!
- Then one time standing in the flood of it; a deep in-drawn breath — a bracing of strong limbs, and with a bound he was gone.
- On he rushes, in his mad flight, heedless that he is wounding and tearing his sleek sides — seeing, smelling, touching of all things; even stopping to put his lips to the noxious pool, thinking it may be sweet.
- Come on dude feed me, I'm starving.
- So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering. The door which accident had opened is opened still, but the cage remains forever empty!
- Works Cited Chopin, Kate. “Emancupation: a Life Fable.” 1963. Storyboard Creator. Storyboard That, https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator.
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