Writers use elements of writing to help create the reason behind their stories. William Faulkner and Tom Whitecloud are both writers who expressed their stories using plot and structure. Plot is the ideas or reasons as to why certain things happen in a story, elements of plot help the reader understand the story. For example, the suspense, conflict, exposition, rising action, crisis, resolution etc. of the story. Whereas structure, on the other hand, is the way the writer arranges the story’s plot. The structure is the gestures, dialogue, focus, time, place, etc of the story. The plot is specific to what is going on in the story, while the structure remains broader and more abstract in regards to the story, involving more of the mechanics and
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Faulkner wrote this short story using flashbacks, foreshadowing, symbolism and he divided the story into five different sections. “A Rose for Emily” to explain the plot in an easier sense. In section one of the story, the town is hosting a funeral at Emily Grierson’s home after her death, however, section two takes place thirty years earlier when Emily resisted an inquiry on behalf of the town that an odor coming from her property that is causing serious concern. Structure three of the story is about Emily’s suffering and loneliness after her father's death, structure four addresses the towns fear of what Emily would do with the poison and Emily’s isolation from the town. Emily was so isolated from everyone else, no one really even knew what she looked like. The town did not know Emily, in the story it says, “[the next time Emily was seen after various time of no one seeing her,] she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron gray..From that [last] time on, her front door remained closed” (Roberts 134). Emily was isolated, alone and the town was curious, which is why in section five they search and find her dead then deal with what happens with her and her home after her death. “A Rose for Emily” is a story about a women causing concern in …show more content…
The young indian man saw Wisconsin as his true home, in Wisconsin he says there is “no constant peering into the maelstrom of one’s mind; no worries about grades and honors; no hysterical preparing for life until that life is half over; no anxiety about one’s place in the thing the call Society” (144). The man feels his Indian Reservation in Wisconsin is free of stress, anxiety and pressure. He however, did not feel that the rest of the country experienced this. The man felt as if the real world was secluding Native Americans, he felt as if Native American people were looked down upon and inferior, and this was the story’s plot. The storyline of Blue Winds Dancing was structured in chronological order and consisted of three different ideas or sections. First, the man expresses his college in California, then, he addresses the train through the Southwest and he ends the story finding the true identity. He truly was Native American and that was what he was meant to
Faulkner wrote this short story using flashbacks, foreshadowing, symbolism and he divided the story into five different sections. “A Rose for Emily” to explain the plot in an easier sense. In section one of the story, the town is hosting a funeral at Emily Grierson’s home after her death, however, section two takes place thirty years earlier when Emily resisted an inquiry on behalf of the town that an odor coming from her property that is causing serious concern. Structure three of the story is about Emily’s suffering and loneliness after her father's death, structure four addresses the towns fear of what Emily would do with the poison and Emily’s isolation from the town. Emily was so isolated from everyone else, no one really even knew what she looked like. The town did not know Emily, in the story it says, “[the next time Emily was seen after various time of no one seeing her,] she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron gray..From that [last] time on, her front door remained closed” (Roberts 134). Emily was isolated, alone and the town was curious, which is why in section five they search and find her dead then deal with what happens with her and her home after her death. “A Rose for Emily” is a story about a women causing concern in …show more content…
The young indian man saw Wisconsin as his true home, in Wisconsin he says there is “no constant peering into the maelstrom of one’s mind; no worries about grades and honors; no hysterical preparing for life until that life is half over; no anxiety about one’s place in the thing the call Society” (144). The man feels his Indian Reservation in Wisconsin is free of stress, anxiety and pressure. He however, did not feel that the rest of the country experienced this. The man felt as if the real world was secluding Native Americans, he felt as if Native American people were looked down upon and inferior, and this was the story’s plot. The storyline of Blue Winds Dancing was structured in chronological order and consisted of three different ideas or sections. First, the man expresses his college in California, then, he addresses the train through the Southwest and he ends the story finding the true identity. He truly was Native American and that was what he was meant to