Answer:
Both of the texts talks about the female protagonist's inability to control what her fate brings on her. Mrs. Mallard's society where women were presumed or taken to be inferior to the men led to her subordinate nature of her existence. Mrs. Sommers, on the other hand, likewise suffers from a reality where the shopping experience led to her spending all for herself instead of the pre-planned things to be bought and needed.
Explanation:
Naturalism is the idea that a person's fate or destiny is controlled by his/ her surroundings, be it the society or even the domestic sphere. This naturalism can be demonstrated by a person's characterization which shows him/her being constrained by the external elements in the society, especially women in a patriarchal society.
Kate Chopin's two short stories "The Story of An Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings" both revolve around the theme of women being suppressed in their societies. Mrs. Mallard was happy in her heart to hear of her husband's death for that means she is finally free from his "<em>powerful will bending hers</em>". Likewise, Mrs. Sommers life revolves around her family. So, when she go the money, she had planned don buying things for everyone. But the external forces in the market, when she went to shop, led her to spend not in the ways she had planned. She instead indulge on her needs and wants, leading her to spend contrary to the original plan. Chopin wrote "<em>Her stockings and boots and well fitting gloves had worked marvels in her bearing—had given her a feeling of assurance, a sense of belonging to the well-dressed multitude.</em>"
Joshua's training is called training in the detection of thoughts. This type of training is cognitive behavioral therapy, it implies that the patient is aware of the irrational thoughts, or the rumination of thought that he is doing, and that he understands that maintaining this type of thinking does not help him. By detecting these thoughts the patient learns to stop them and eliminate them. It is common training in this therapeutic technique in patients with depressive disorder or anxiety disorder.
The answer is: Respect and protect nature.
The theme respect and protect nature is usually used by the writers if they focused on educating the readers regarding the importance of maintaining the proper condition of our environment. Putting giant birds as characters that pick up trash to protect the environment is made to appeal to the readers' emotion so they do not repeat the same behavior.
