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child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

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

he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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

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

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

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

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...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

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

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

the open air seems odd. And yet, the opera version gave Falstaff a swagger and an attitude that one suspects was close to the t...

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

This 3 page paper argues that the Iraqis have been lied to by both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

cover many different subjects in the course of one conversation. I have found just the opposite to be true. I can remember sitting...

narrator, but fifteen of them, most of whom were the lowliest class of Yoknapatawpha County farmers, of the same caliber as the mi...