Emily Dialectical Journal Essay

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1.The points where I started to noticed foreshshadowing of the ending, was in section 3 where Emily goes to drug store to buy arsenic. There was no information on how Emily was going to use that poison. The story did prepare me for something different then I was expecting. I would of thought Emily would of used the poison on herself, to end her life after she had lost her father. She used it on Homer

2. It is not easy to figure out who the narrator is. The narrator uses the word “we” to tell the story. He once uses the word “they”, this is what threw me off. The narrator could be a girl or a boy. There attitude towards emily seem like he cared for Emily. The narrator referred Emily as, Miss Emily. What they remember Emily is a young nice girl, but after her fathers death things changed. Then ends up turning into a old lady that poisons and kills Homer Barron. My attitude towards her are not that great. I understand life to get tough when you lose a family member, but the way she changed completely I don’t agree with it. I don't find myself sympathizing with Emily’s situation.

3. In the Old South, they had had families that had equal finical, and social power. Emily had a familiar similar to that. Emily was the same, she had those strong plantations. She was a very known person, even known as a symbol. She is a fallen monument because all that she went through, was who she was. She is now gone , and has no change of changing that.

4. The Title of the story dosen’t tell us much, because there is isn’t a rose in the story. I think this
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The actually has a plot twist, which is a series of events that are changed to make a spark in the story. They went through the pyramid Plot. The climax of this story I believe is when she buys the poison. The effects that this story has a series told out of order. This story also divided into parts, which made the story interesting to

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