The Sound and the Fury

“Life is too short.” These are words that are not said often enough, yet the same theme applies in many quotes. These words are sometimes muttered when something traumatic happens, or when the unexpected occurs, and one knows not what to do. These words are muttered in the most extremes of times, yet, never in the simplest. Life is too short, and while yes, this is true, there is also another side to the story. When life becomes too short, one must see that life also moves on. When a tragic…

short between them. Bill glances at the book which happens to be “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner. In Bill’s pick up line he misinterprets the author. Generally women like men who are interesting and have a sense of humor. In the next round Betty repeats the question again but Bill said he lied about ever going to college. When the bell rings again and Bill says to Betty that he graduated from Harvard just to make him sound like a more intelligent person. Most people try not to…

wouldn’t tell. He told me everything that happed at out-with (a concentration camp for Jews) before he passed away, and I can’t keep it to myself anymore it’s too hard for me to hold it in and keep it tucked away forever, others need to know what “The Fury” is doing. Bruno, my younger brother was living in Berlin with me (Gretel), mother, and father, (Father at the time had just been promoted to be a Nazi Commandant) arrived home from school one day, after me of course, and found our slightly…

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Negan was dashing up the staircase, taking two steps at a time when Rick lifted his gun and pulled the trigger. Click, click, click. Empty. Negan knew the sound, and his bravado and bravery returned as he spun on his heel at the top of the stairs. “Hey, baby,” he greeted Rick warmly, as if Rick just got home from work with the bacon. “You are out of bullets. Why don’t you come on up here and greet me with a wet, sloppy kiss instead, sweetheart?” He crooked the fingers of his free hand and…

have shown that children who read more than their peers exhibit a larger vocabulary as well as more complex writing styles. Since I was young, I’ve become a prolific reader. From My Father’s Dragon, my first “chapter book” I read myself, to The Sound and the Fury, novels have been a subconscious source of vocabulary and inspiration in my writing. Without reading, I’m sure…

Poe’s speciality is to leave loose ends and dozens of interpretations, all of them intertwined in the topic of the double. Therefore, the tale is at first a nest of doubles. The madman and the old man are at the centre of this horrible tale in which one is murdered by the other, and the most important aspect of their duality might be there, on the line of the madman’s retelling of the events, since one of the main aspects of Poe’s fiction is the one of the narrator’s unreliability. Should we…

The first morning, I woke to a beautiful chirping sound from all the diverse birds in the woods. While stretching my arm far back, trying to wrap my around the world, I notice how beautiful and peace Mother Nature was. I took upon myself to evaluate my self-reliance in a short period of time. Rather than…

The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction, as did Macbeth and Richard Nixon. Full of greed and ambition, both men strived for a goal but fell to corruption. Kings and presidents obtain massive potential for wrongdoing; free will determined their tracks. A close examination of the way that Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, and Macbeth, the fallen hero in the Tragedy of Macbeth, resorted to abusing power illustrated that the themes in Macbeth are still…

Nevertheless, Faulkner’s remark on Quentin in the Appendix to The Sound and the Fury allows us to consider this theme from a different standpoint. In the Appendix, Faulkner said that Quentin “loved not his sister’s body but some concept of Compson honor . . .” (709). Moreover, from this domestic angle, Faulkner clarified why…