William Faulkner

Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman presents methods of grieving in several conflicting ways and through the personal and public lenses of many of its characters. Death, the unwelcome stranger, repeatedly appears in the novel, lingering in the setting of its first seven chapters and stealing several characters additionally. The main character, Mary Erle, experiences the deaths of her father and closest friend over the course of the narrative, as well as the losses of several…

things such as walking and talking, she takes no part in unless forced, for she does not see any use in them. She does not fear losing her position despite being lazy, she, as her teacher Labove states is not “aware that she [is] in deadly danger” (Faulkner, pg. 132). Eula, “[does]…

Bailey, a character from this story, decided to take a trip to Florida. His grandmother would much rather visit east Tennessee and was trying to convince him to not go to Florida. She tells him to read something from a newspaper, about The Misfit on the loose and heading towards Florida. Her son did not listen and her grandchild, John Wesley, asks her why she cannot just stay at home. June Star tells him she would not stay at home for anything. The next morning they headed out. The grandmother…

In the pilot episode, Prairie debuts as a woman who was missing for the past 7 years. The audience learns that she was blind as a child, but mysteriously, she is no longer blind and refuses to explain how. Prairie holds back her story and it makes her a very suspicious character, and no one can guess whether she was kidnapped or ran away from home. However, it remains a mystery of how she got so far despite being blind before. The first episode of the OA introduces a brief insight to what the…

In my opinion, this story is about control. Emily's father controlled her life while he was alive and in turn she controls his by not wanting to release his body so that he could be buried properly. Emily wants to also be in control over Homer so she poisons him. This story is similar to the story "One of These Days" by Garica Marquez because both of these stories kind of revolves around "power" even the townspeople wanted to have power over Emily like the Mayor wanted to have power over the…

Margaret Atwood's "Lusus Naturae" is a story about a young girl who is diagnosed with porphyria. Porphyria is a group of diseases in which substance called porphyrins build up affecting the skin or nervous system. This in turn causes abdominal pain, chest pain, vomiting, and many more symptoms. This also causes severe disfiguration in the skin all over the body. In the story the girl suffers many mental and physical ailments because of the verbal abuse from her family and also from the villages…

In the story a rose for Emily Faulker heavily uses foreshadowing and flashbacks. It is also told in a convoluted sequence. Most of the story is told through flashbacks. Faulker states the story in the present. The narrator is at the funeral of Miss Emily. He then flashes back to different points in her life that foreshadow her secret that is later reviled. He flashes back on to many different times to show the character of Emily. He tells about her relationship with her father. Then her…

Emily Dickenson has an openly bleak way of looking at the world. “The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film,” is one of her many short poems. Her works have a gothic style that changes with her mood. The day she wrote this, I imagine that she was watching people out her window. It is easy to judge a book by its cover, but the cover is meant to engage you. Here Emily is artfully saying that even with a hint of distraction or decoration, a whole picture is still seen. Whether looking at people,…

The next Christmas, Paul is surprised to find that Robert and his family have invited the Waverlys to spend Christmas with them. Eager to see his brother, Paul sets out to find him. He meets Mitchell in the woods, whose face is swollen from, Paul surmises, a beating from Willie Thomas. Mitchell says he is planning to leave the plantation, and the two boys part ways. Before long, Paul finds the two older Waverly brothers and Robert leading the panting, lathered, and bleeding Appaloosa down a road…

In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, and Buried Onions, by Gary Soto, the main characters live in environments that test their emotions and their opinions. The Man, Eddie, and Zeitoun have to survive in a society, where people judge them because of their actions and values. Zeitoun lives in a society that judges him for being Muslim and his beliefs. Eddie finds himself having to pick between being himself and the cousin that wants to avenge the death of his family member.…