The Sound and the Fury

Ethel Waters was an american singer and actress born on October 31, 1896 due to her mother being raped at the age of 13. She died on September 1, 1977 due of a kidney failure. She frequently played Jazz, Pop, and Big Band music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Although she began her career in the 1920s Singing The Blues she didn’t blow up until years later. Waters grew up in poverty and married at the age of 12, while she was still attending school. At 13 she became a chambermaid in a…

full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who had been brought up under the code of restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood without a word spoken” (Saki 9). Both men, regardless of the fury they hold for one another, were unable to shoot the other on the spot as they had thought. Each man had a tiny bit of compassion for the other, and the traits they shared left them unable to kill one another. There was hope between the two that…

On April 3, 1964, human rights activist Malcolm X gave the speech “The Ballot or the Bullet.” The speech was delivered in a time of political upheaval, when discussions of racial equality and integration between white and black people were becoming popularized and increasing in frequency. Malcolm X himself suffered much turmoil leading up to the speech; after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, refusing to give condolences to the Kennedy family…

seventeenth century double bass. The first notable change was in the nineteen-twenties by a man named Lloyd Loar, which at the time worked for a notable guitar producer called Gibson. He added electrostatic pickups on a small handheld bass; but, no sound could really be produced since the first electric amp we created in the nineteen-forties. The nineteen-thirties was an odd time for a bass guitar. Many upright basses were too bulky to be a horizontal bass; but, the upright basses were…

the literary world drew on questions about whether or not Poe was a great success or just another mentally ill author. One particular quote from the passage states that, “the aftermath of Poe’s death was a long and intricate story full of the sound and fury of a controversy about the nature of the man’s personality, his loves and misfortunes, and for years it…

Eyes on the Prize The mountains towering over the valleys between them, with the tall evergreen pines trees that covered the forest floor was a beautiful site. The soft chirp of birds was a relaxing distance sound of nature. The air was intoxicating with oxygen, so fresh, in comparison to the air from Belen. Late afternoon was coming around, being out all that morning with the anticipation of finding a bull, all of us anxious for action. With a little bit of disappointment, sadly no luck, I was…

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe’s work, titled The Tell-Tale Heart, uses elements symbolism, tone, and horror to emphasize the theme of guilt and how it effects you. Although more elements of fiction can be seen within the story, these three elements allow the reader to understand the narrator’s situation and the theme of the story. With very little detail and simple sentences, Poe manages to show just how simple it is for guilt to make you crazy. Poe’s usage of symbolism in The Tell-Tale…

In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, each main character has a unique conception of time, which either binds or liberates them. Because the majority of the novel is written from a stream-of-consciousness perspective, each character’s worldview and sense of time is revealed. Each section relates a different conception of time and reveals how much freedom or bondage each character experiences as a result. However, in the novel, the present is only understood in terms of the past, as the…

describes some of the things he hears. O’brien says “Well, you'd think, this isn't so bad. And right then you'd hear gunfire behind you and your nuts would fly up into your throat and you'd be squealing pig squeals”(O'brien 34). He describes the sound of violence and the way it affects a person. He portrays the fear he felt when thinking of the gunfires. He speaks of the how real…

Throughout the poem, words such as “slashed”, “fury” and “regiments” are used, making us imagine a dangerous battlefield where a violent war is taking place. Also, Scannell makes the poem less specific and personal, which allows readers to imagine any kid, perhaps even their own kids, making it easy…