Carol Ryrie Brink

5 Conclusion Comparing the Quinceañera and the Sweet 16 celebration, it turns out that they have many points in common but differ as well. Starting with the similarities, both developed through anterior coming of age ceremonies, and are only celebrated by girls. They both are rite of passage ceremonies, which honor the completed childhood of the girl and celebrate the beginning of the new life chapter as a woman. The girls make new experiences and have to face more responsibilities by turning 15…

Fantasies are like landscapes with no real ending and a place where desires can run freely but at the cost of one´s own mind. The Fantasies inside ¨Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been¨ show Connie´s freedom to an extent, in which her own knowledge and persona become her crutch in the aftermath of her conflict. But, however, In ¨Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” Joyce Oates uses Connie struggle against Arnold to portray her fear of adulthood as well as symbolize her innocence being…

In this essay we’ll be exploring the different symbols found in William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily”. The “rose” in the title, Emily’s house, the hair found on the bed, Emily's watch, the lime to cover up the smell, and the arsenic used to kill homer are all pieces that have a deeper/symbolic meaning to them. When the town's Aldermen came to Emily's house on the matter of collecting taxes, Faulkner specifically made the reader direct their attention to the the ticking pocket watch that is…

Because of cases like these, history can be tainted, revealing that not everything from the past is correctly interpreted. History, therefore, can be seen as just a series of events in the past that do not necessarily mean anything to the present. Joyce Carol Oates, author of the article “Believing What We Read, and Vice Versa,” says, “With the best intentions, in recalling the past we are already altering – one might say violating – the original experience” (Oates). In other words, history…

One of the interesting techniques that Faulkner uses to develop ‘A Rose for Emily’ was his use of an unnamed narrator whose relationship to Emily and whose role in the life of the town is somewhat uncertain. Still, the reader cannot help but be curious by the way in which the narrator tells the story of Miss Emily. Faulkner constantly uses the word “we" to describe the feelings of the townspeople and their suspicions of Miss Emily. In this essay, the effect of this narrative style will be…

The adolescent I chose to interview is my little cousin. Her name is Embry and she is 14-years-old. Unlike Albert, Embry is a brat 24/7. The reason I think that is because she is very disrespectful to her mom. She is rude, calls her names, and says she is too nosey, and so on. She is as sweet as can be to her dad though. Her mom says it is just her hormones. I think it is because her mom actually makes her listen, clean, and do her homework whereas her dad gets to be the fun parent and that is…

Think of the year you were born and where you lived. The year of your birth says a lot about you and how you grew up, along with where you lived growing up. This is the setting of your own life. If you born in the twenty’s you would live a much different life compared to someone who was born in the seventy’s. Also, if you grew up in the south or west or even a different county your life would be very different then those who live elsewhere. All these factors change how your life was growing…

In William Faulkner’s brilliantly twisted story of “A Rose For Emily”, his eloquent yet dark style of writing causes his readers to develop mixed emotions about his main character in order to emphasize how complicated she is. This story about the main character, Emily Grierson, jumps back and forth from the present to the past, detailing the death of her father and how this negatively influenced her life. She becomes practically destitute, with only a house to survive in. Later, she meets a man,…

In his short story “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner’s allegorical work critiques the relationship between the North and the South after the Civil War. Through careful examination of setting and character analysis, Faulkner is specifically arguing how the South wasn’t in mint condition after the Civil War, through his use of allegory. Faulkner uses Emily and her environment to precisely represent the South. One key reason that the South wasn’t in mint condition after the Civil War is that…

1) What is the significance of the title? I believe the title was chosen to signify beauty that should be given to emily because of the tragic life she lived devastated by circumstance. Throughout emily’s existence her father constantly denied her the life she wanted- to have a normal lifestyle, be married, have a family and more- by keeping suitors away and hiding her from society, in result emily was refused a life that was rightfully hers. Therefor the rose for Emily represents a rose given…