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Giselle Mills novel “Through It All’, looks at the complex life of a teenage Caribbean girl and her journey through the turbulent and strained years of teenage life. It follows the life of Andreide, a sixteen year old as the deals with life experiences throughout the novel through her different relationships with her family, friends and love interests. While the book is mainly based on the life of Android, the supportive characters such as her mother Rose Marie, father Charles, Love interest…

In addition to how much Emily’s father had structured her life and held her back, there is the issue of Emily’s love life to consider. Her father never allowed her to have a man, for he was the only man he felt she needed in her life. This idea was so prominent that even the townspeople knew that Emily’s father was the reason Emily ended up unmarried and alone: “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which…

You’ve Got a Friend in Me The story “Where are you going, where have you been” written by Joyce Carol Oates, chronicles the story of a young girl named Connie faced with the ultimate choice of saving her life or her family. Oates uses the deal with the devil genre short story to show the struggle Connie dealt with and how she reacted to the choice of life or death. In Oates story, Arnold Friend is the literal devil because of his unruly, translucent appearance, his overwhelming knowledge of…

Culture, location, reputation and upbringing are all main contributors to the way someone’s life turns out. For most people, they are given the option to choose their own path in life and their past becomes a positive contributor to who they chose to be. However, for others, the past can prevent the future from happening, it can hold one back from accomplishing their hopes and dreams because they end up stuck in the same routine and traditions that they were taught at a young age. Being stuck in…

It is amusing that a story being outside of sequence such as "A Rose for Emily" comes to an end with the finding of the forty-year-old corpse of Homer Barron. Audience as well as critics frequently assume that in the event that the story was written linearly, in series, it would not be much of a storyline. Some individuals believe that all of the strength can be found in the breakthrough of the rotting corpse belonging to the fellow. There are other facts in the story that would disagree with…

Brandon Siron Anne Henley Rowe ENG 112 27 September 2017 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Final Draft In the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Written by Joyce Carol Oates, is a fiction about a rebellious fifteen-year-old girl named Connie. She is obsessed with her appearance and avoids her mother when she tries to tell her that her appearance isn't what's important. Connie wants to get attention from boys until she gets attention from the wrong boy.…

Southern Gothic Southern Gothic writing style is about ironic, macabre events that focus on the Old South. William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor are known for writing Southern Gothic short stories. Southern Gothic stories are about “lurid, macabre subject matters,” that, “social issues and illuminate the cultural climate of the American south.” (Thomas) Two excellent examples of Southern Gothic short stories are William Faulkner’s, “A Rose for Emily” and Flannery O’ Connor’s, “A Good Man is…

The problem with Emily In the passage “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the protagonist Emily Grierson who lived in the south where a person’s social class determined the expectations of a person’s behavior and how society viewed and treated them. Emily Grierson is an older woman who comes from a wealthy family but suffers from schizophrenia. “Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent, illogical thoughts, and bizarre behavior” (Kazdin 2000) Miss Emily goes…

In the short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates’ depicts the life of a young, narcissistic girl who lives in her own little unrealistic word of beauty, popularity, and boys. Connie’s sister and mother are the complete opposite of what the young, self-centered girl represents. Connie’s entire life consists of making sure she is always looking young and beautiful for the boys out on the town. One day, Connie’s vain lifestyle bites back when a boy that goes by the…

Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner were authors who wrote in the style of Southern Gothic. Southern Gothic is “a style of writing practiced by many writers of the American South whose stories set in that region are characterized by grotesque, macabre, or fantastic incidents.” Some of themes used in writing Southern gothic include irony, social issues, violence, race, outsiders and southern settings. The stories had flawed characters and often have dark humor. They illustrated the social and…