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Question: Compose a review for Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

The primary purpose of a review should be to evaluate - Is the story good or bad? Did you like it? Would you recommend it to others? Did it achieve its purpose? The answers to these questions (one of them, at least) will probably be your thesis around which the rest of your essay will revolve.

Telling the reader why you thought the story was good or bad, etc., will form the body of your review. You must look at the elements of the story. Examine things like character, theme, plot, style and setting. How do these things contribute to the story being good or bad? Evaluations require one to set standards for comparisons. Let the reader know what your standards are. Perhaps relate the story to others in the same genre.

Because your audience will probably not be familiar with your story, you should include a brief summary of the plot. However, you should not give away too much. You also may consider including background information on the author and or the story itself.

You can write bad reviews - do not think you have to like a story. You also do not have to like everything about a story - in other words, you can compose a "mixed" review.