Carol Dweck

Traveling to New Worlds and Becoming a New You Kellie Elmore, a famous author, once stated, “Sometimes the only way to find yourself, is to get completely lost.” Cara Weaver’s quest throughout the novel Rising Calm, by Haley Fisher, is exactly what she needs to find herself and realize who she is meant to be. To succeed in her prophecy, Cara must be daunting and wise. She has to overcome obstacles and protect the ones she loves the most all while trying to save a world no one knows exists.…

The theme of a work of literature is its central or dominant idea. Theme is not the same as plot or subject, two terms with which it is sometimes confused" (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). One important theme in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is death. He uses death to symbolize how old ways of life die but sometimes people continue to hold on to things. This may be due to being afraid of change. Faulkner shows how Emily refuses to let go of her father's dead body, and even refusing to…

E. Sharice Fair Mr. Chase English Comp. 2 2/24/15 Symbolism on “A Rose for Emily” The short story by William Faulkner tells how Miss Emily grew up as a very shelter girl from a well known family of her town. Never could anyone image that her upbringing that her father decided for her would have so much effect on her adult life. She faces the falling of the South alone with adversity. Faulkner has several instances of symbolism with the house, dust as well as her aging symbolizing…

inability to know the future. It also permits us to observe our own lives when reflecting on our own motivations for interpreting the incomplete ending in a certain way. Three short-stories that capture this practice nicely are John Updike’s “A&P”, Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” By examining the non-resolution of these…

There are two components to the literature genre, Southern Gothic being Southern and Gothic. The Gothic aspect focuses on grotesque and gruesome topics such as disturbed and/or distorted characters. The Southern aspect focuses on the issues specifically located in the Southern states which include, racism, differentiating between men and woman’s labor, and most importantly the era (the short story takes place in 1894). In the story, “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner, one of the…

In the short story “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, the plot revolves around a young narcissist named Connie. Connie is a 15 year old normal teenage girl relatively speaking. She has no interest in responsibility and often dreams of the Disney-like life of a beautiful girl being met by an extraordinary man. Connie’s desire to be rebellious, her desire to be better than others, and her desire to be noticed are the focus of this story. Despite the similarity in these…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s most well-known pieces of writing. It has been widely anthologized in many college English textbooks throughout all of America. This story is actually based on a true story about a serial killer named Charles Schmid based out of Arizona. He is responsible for the death of four people from the Tuscon area in 1960 and was sentenced to death for his actions. Oates creates her own version of this story using the characters…

and the Fritz sisters. Oates gained the idea for her story from a Life magazine article about Schmid. She wrote the story similar to legends of “Death and the Maiden”, and made her main character a young and vulnerable girl (Ramsland, n.d.). Joyce Carol Oates based Connie mostly on what had happened to Alleen Rowe. Connie, like Alleen, was lured out of her house while her family was not home and was not seen again. Oates elaborated on the real crime and added some fantastical elements to her…

William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily was one of his first published short stories, published in Forum magazine in 1930. “A Rose for Emily” has become one of Faulkner’s most read and praised works due to its portrayal of aberrant psychological and political ideas. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner portrays the death of the traditional Southern way of life through his characters, including Miss Emily and the townspeople, places, such as Emily’s home and the town, and events that take…

In William Faulkner 's fictional short story, "A Rose for Emily" he illustrates Emily Grierson’s struggle to find her own identity in the judgmental society surrounding her. As the story continues, the generations become more modern. The encroaching subjective society tries to overcome Emily’s traditionalist manner, but Emily’s behavior conveys how she surpasses the new generation, and continued her tradition as though she did before. Faulkner’s use of a first person-plural narration potrays…