William Faulkner

The themes of “The Red Bow” and “Adams” exhibit a father’s desperate attempt to ensure the safety of his family and his community. Both father’s go through great measures to protect their family and community from ever enduring the pain and anger that they feel inside. This motivates both fathers to act in a violent way only one is acting in the fact that his daughter was viciously killed by a dog, and the other one found his neighbor standing in his house facing his children’s room while…

Synopsis In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, a young country girl by the name Tess Durbeyfield or “d’Urberville” goes through a series of very unfortunate events following the revelation that she is of ancient noble blood. As her father John is walking past an old man he is rough acquaintances with, but not close to whatsoever, the man informs him that he is actually of the ancient name d’Urberville, one of the most wealthy and influential families a few centuries prior. Sadly, John…

Once Gone is a book about an FBI investigator, by the name of Riley Paige, who is taking a break from her job since the last investigation about a serial killer had her traumatized. Now that she actually has the time to take a break there is another serial killer on the loose who is killing women and leaving their bodies all over a town in the state of Virginia. It’s cases like these that I wouldn’t be able to be an FBI investigator because I cant stand to see people bleeding. Since the last…

A Good Man is Hard to Find A Good Man is Hard to Find, is a short story written by Mary Flannery O’Connor, but she didn’t use her first name Mary. She was a writer of short stories and novels and her writings were filled with dark comedy and violence, usually mixed with moral and theological backgrounds. She was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. Both her parents came from Catholic families and her religion played a huge role in her writings. In the late 1930s, her father developed…

Journal 3 My Journal 3 assignment was to read two short stories. These two stories are very different, but both seem to take you through the lives of people. Although these two stories a different, they both are about different cultures. One story is written in third person, while the other is a narrative. The short story This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona written by Sherman Alexie takes place on a Indiana reservation in Spokane, Washington. The two main characters are Thomas…

COMPLICATED, yet eloquent. Breath-taking, yet unique. This is how I describe Super- Frog Saves Tokyo, a peculiar story which was written by Murakami Haruki and was translated by Jay Rubin. In connection with this, this story of Murakami proves his different and astonishing style of writing fiction stories. Moreover, this fiction story of him proves his expertise in depicting imaginary people in imaginary situation. On the other hand, there are hardworking people who are not acknowledged. There…

Low visibility by Margaret Murphy The short story “Low Visibility”, written by Margaret Murphy in 2008, is about the main character called Laura, who is in an unhappy marriage with her abusive, dominant, husband, John. Laura, who is an anonymous person most of the time of the story, lives a depressing life. She is under the thumb of her husband, which is why she has become an insecure, wordless, obedient wife. You get the information that she used to be an energizing, ebullience and spirited…

In the poem "Minerva Jones", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about how Minerva Jones died in the hands of a doctor. People hooting at her while she walks down the street. Minerva Jones is describe as a heavy body, cocked-eye, and rolling walk girl. What i learned about this individual was that she was named called for just walking down the streets. The people she talks about are the people who were hooting at her and the doctor that they left her with. She was left on her own fate with a doctor name…

Question # 1: Yes, A & P is the contemporary reworking of Araby. They both are the short stories written by two famous authors at different times and in different places. Despite different countries and times, A & P and Araby have so much in common. Similarities can be clearly seen in the context and settings of story. Both tales portrays the darkness and gloominess of the cities. Sammy, like the narrator of Araby, in A&P describes his town in by referring to every people around him as sheep. He…

Within Catcher in the Rye, without a doubt the theme of alienation is prominent throughout. The Webster dictionary defines alienation as “a withdrawing and separation of a person or persons affection from an object or position of former attachment”. This explanation helps the reader to set the scene for the novel and the isolated presence the main character Holden withholds throughout the course of the story. The negative energy Holden Caufield displays automatically at the beginning of the…