Southern American English

African-Americans are seen as sub-humans, oppressed, greatly mistreated and enslaved. As you read Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, readers will come across extreme prejudice and racism as seen the short story. “They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow” (Faulkner). The author shows his intentions with the use of the derogatory term “negro”. Even after the Civil War and slaves are given his/her freedom, African-Americans are still…

Introduction When Kudzu, Pueraria montana var. lobata, was first introduced to the United States no one suspected that the semi-woody vine would be capable of enveloping forests across the country. Today, the plant sprawls across an estimated 810,000 hectares of land from Eastern Texas to Florida all the way up to Kentucky. When it was originally planted, Kudzu was seen as a “miracle” plant, able to grow extremely quickly and stop erosion dead in its tracks. Given continuous encouragement by the…

interpretation. In his work, “The Visible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan as an Electoral Movement” (1980), Wald argues that although society is used to depicting the Klan as an extremist group set out to terrorize and destroy the lives of newly freed African American slaves, the Klan was actually established as a political party. Unlike the other historians in this viewpoint who believe that the Klan used violence to achieve its goals, Wald believed that the Klan peacefully pursued its goals through…

The Bible Belt was first coined in 1925 by H.L. Mencken. Mencken used the term informally when discussing the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The Bible Belt was initially meant to be an insult to the people residing in the Southern states and the practices of the people. This has not differed in present day culture, especially when one is raised and attends college in Tennessee. States in The Bible Belt practice a strict form of Christianity, where some scriptures are taken out of…

Dead Until Dark Today I will be doing my book chat on Dead Until Dark authored by Charlaine Harris. Dead Until Dark is the first book to The Southern Vampire Mysteries series. As the rest of the series, this book is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a fictional character living in a fictional life. Sookie is a 25 year old waitress at Merlotte’s Bar, living with her grandmother Adele and her older brother Jason in a small fictional town in Louisiana, Bon Temps. In this imaginary world, vampires and…

Settings create the whole atmosphere of the story and foreshadow events and character development. But, in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the settings of the story serve an even more special literary meaning. In A Rose for Emily William Faulkner does it by creating a house that encompasses the main characters feelings. And in The Lottery Shirley Jackson does it by creating a Town Square with an eerie feeling of impending doom. Because of the effective use…

strike of the textile industry, which would become the most extensive battle the National Recovery Administration, or NRA, had to face. This seventeen day strike would become known as The National Textile Strike of 1934. Mill towns, in particular the Southern ones, were discontent, because the Depression was already affecting them by 1929. This was largely due to "stretch-out", which is essentially where workers are being forced to overwork and be under payed. One particular mill in Monroe,…

The Rose of Death The American author William Faulkner wrote the short story “A Rose for Emily,” to explain the struggle and resistance to change. “A Rose for Emily,” was William Faulkner’s most popular short story. This short story suggest that time has passed Emily, the main character, by and she will not accept the past. Change is inevitable in the future, and plays a major role in who people are today. Emily’s refusal to accept change has led her to become very isolated. Emily’s…

The “Reedemers” can be described as the group of people from the south, who belonged to the white race and were democrats who were led by rich group of people like either landowners, or businessmen and professionals, who constituted the pro-business faction and conservatives in the Democratic Party. During this time the republicans dominated the south and hence these redeemers carried on their policy of redemption whereby they were seeking to drive out the radical republican group from their…

When attending the university of south Alabama you will come across different people from different parts of the world. You have individuals who have moved from rural community come too mobile, Alabama where it’s an urban community and a different panorama. I interviewed three individuals who lived in different parts of Alabama. Tykeylia Crenshaw is from Greenville, Alabama, which is a rural community; Erica Staley, is from Andalusia, Alabama a rural community, and Chalnadra Gooden, is from…