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Story from Historical, Social, Cultural, Political and Religious Perspectives Surprisingly, the original idea for West Side Stor...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

always been lovingly evangelistic and compassionate Christians have not always been critically discerning. An apprpriate analaogy...

goes on behind its sheltering walls. The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how t...