I am reflecting on Sharon Olds “Rites of Passage”, “A Rose for Emily”, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I am going to reflect the emotion I felt reading from the poem and the two short stories. I picked those three because they impacted me the most and I’m glad I get the chance to explain how I feel about them
The poem “Rites of Passage” is about a mother describing her son’s childhood and transition to adulthood. First she explains how young the children are when Olds said “Short men, men in the first grade / with smooth jaws and chins.” (lines 3-4). I think that Sharon Olds is expressing the feelings she has from watching her son become this manly. In the story you can see the children sizing each other up when they asked “One says to another …show more content…
She lost her father and the man who was supposed to married Emily had left her. I feel like people in the story did not really try to connect with her. Even though she isolated herself from everybody people in the story still could have tried to be friends with her. In the story it said “So the Next day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, "She will marry him." (Faulkner 95). This story interested me because it shows that some people really just do not care about what someone is going through. The druggist and the town’s people thought that Miss Emily was going to kill herself and nobody tried to help her (Faulkner 95). When I first read the short story “A Rose for Emily” I felt so bad for Emily because people looked down on her because she was not married. In the story when Miss Emily died the man showed their affection for Emily, but doing the story I did not get the feeling that no one really cared about her. This story had a lot of impact on me because it showed how lonely Emily was she no friends or relatives who cared about her. In the story her Negro servant did not speak much he was not Emily friend he was just a servant. In the end of “A Rose for Emily” they found a dead body lying in her bed and the found a grey hair next to it (Faulkner 102). I do not
The poem “Rites of Passage” is about a mother describing her son’s childhood and transition to adulthood. First she explains how young the children are when Olds said “Short men, men in the first grade / with smooth jaws and chins.” (lines 3-4). I think that Sharon Olds is expressing the feelings she has from watching her son become this manly. In the story you can see the children sizing each other up when they asked “One says to another …show more content…
She lost her father and the man who was supposed to married Emily had left her. I feel like people in the story did not really try to connect with her. Even though she isolated herself from everybody people in the story still could have tried to be friends with her. In the story it said “So the Next day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, "She will marry him." (Faulkner 95). This story interested me because it shows that some people really just do not care about what someone is going through. The druggist and the town’s people thought that Miss Emily was going to kill herself and nobody tried to help her (Faulkner 95). When I first read the short story “A Rose for Emily” I felt so bad for Emily because people looked down on her because she was not married. In the story when Miss Emily died the man showed their affection for Emily, but doing the story I did not get the feeling that no one really cared about her. This story had a lot of impact on me because it showed how lonely Emily was she no friends or relatives who cared about her. In the story her Negro servant did not speak much he was not Emily friend he was just a servant. In the end of “A Rose for Emily” they found a dead body lying in her bed and the found a grey hair next to it (Faulkner 102). I do not