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    Alien Abduction Analysis

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    Alien Abduction On November 20, 2015 I was abducted by aliens. Luckily, I was not harmed just very frightened. They were all purple with one eye and one antennae on their head. I was surrounded by them and they told me that I needed to give them all of the information I could on one of many topics. Depending on the information I provided them, they will choose to either let Earth join them or destroy Earth, so I wanted to be sure I provided them with the most knowledge I could. I decided to…

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    In the story "A Rose for Emily", the author, William Faulkner, portrays Emily as a mysterious older lady, which is unusual. In most people 's idea of an older woman, everyone knows what is going on with her; she talks about her grandchildren and pays her bills. Emily Grierson was not like that at all. She was, in fact, the complete opposite. She was traditional, stubborn, overly adoring over subjects that could easily be solved a different way. Emily Grierson lives in traditional ways. She felt…

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    If you lived in a world where you had absolutely no control over anything but it was perfect, would you go insane? You’d become unhappy. This would eventually lead to sadness that would deepen into depression. Depression can also lead into insanity. A world of perfection, paradise, Nirvana, doesn’t exist seeing as every person has a distinct paradise in mind. Within every perfection, there is a flaw making the perfect society imaginary. Every human being is able to possess a dark twisted mind. A…

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    “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner both detail the tragedy of loss and how one reacts to it. Tragedy is an ever-present occurrence in life and death is often a cause of it, that is the main issue of both texts. Both stories go on to teach us that letting go is necessary for both the living and dead. Those that bring us the most grief when they die are the ones that we love dearly in “The Monkey’s Paw” it is the White family’s only son and in “A Rose for…

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    Old South Symbolism

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    In this story the author Faulkner uses Emily and her house as a symbol of the old South. In this story Emily’s house and how the people in town treat her is resembling the past and the South. Her house used to be on the best street in the town and the house itself used to be decorated extravagantly. Now it is an industrial area with gas stations and buildings are all around it and the house is out of place just like the South's old values are out of place in this changing society. The house…

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    In the story Emily lived with her father who was known as a greedy and powerful man. His scary nature is seen in a scene from the standpoint of the town her father demand her with his rules and kept her away from living a normal life. She wanted to date boys just like any other girl, but her father didn’t allow her to date because no one is good enough for Emily. Later in the story it is obvious that her father’s selfishness had a strong consequence on his daughter. He wanted to keep her for…

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    suspense with a need to be the detective in the case of the noble women who murdered her lover. Since Tobe, the servant, ran off as soon as Miss Emily passed, he was the only witness to what took place over many decades (Faulkner 5). Thus, the case may be hard to crack with the complexity created by the narration of only the events the townspeople remember and the jumbled chronological order…

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    It was the same old dream. She’d turn the key in the lock and open the door. To her horror, she’d see that same old monster. It was a different kind of monster although. She couldn 't see it even though she definitely tried to. She felt it move and creep around her. Looking at her every move and waiting for the right time to attack. She ran around the house trying to find something to hide under. But she never knew whether the monster was in that room or not. “Will you get up already?”…

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    “In good fiction, certain of the details will tend to accumulate meaning from the action of the story itself, and when this happens they become symbolic in the way they work” (O’Connor). In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” many components that may be initially dismissed in a passage, through intelligent writing, gather a deeper meaning. Homer, for example, appears to be just another tragedy to strike the pathetic life of Emily Grierson. However, many features linked to Homer leave the…

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    Disparities of social norms and social stratification is a common theme by Southern gothic writers such as William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connell. As it can be seen in both A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a rose for Emily. The two portray interplay from generations to another which manifests itself as resistance to change in previous generations. The grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Emily in a rose for Emily are more or less the same to one another regarding to the themes in the…

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