The American writers John Steinbeck and Katherine Mansfield from New Zealand both were modernist writers of short fictional stories. They portrayed different looking characters having similar life issues and encounters. In ‘’Miss Brill’’ and ‘’The Chrysanthemums’’ both female protagonists have an insight about themselves and learn something new about the world they live in. They are drawn together by their uneventful lives and thriving for something to happen but separated in terms of looks. First of all, Miss Brill is a lonely old lady, who is a school teacher and lives in France.
Living Through Literature Literature reflects many communities. Most authors get their ideals from their surroundings, which happens to be their community. Toni Cade Bambara’s, “The Lesson,” is a great example of literature and community. As I was reading this great story, it was as if I was standing in front of their apartment building gaining knowledge from Miss Moore. “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was an interesting story about an abnormal woman in the community that everyone talked about.
House of Grierson In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the Grierson's house is a symbol with many different meanings, and several possible interpretations revealing information about the characters and story line that one wouldn't initially think of. The house is not just an emblem to the Grierson family and it's previous greatness, but a token of the past, tradition, and of Emily herself. This powerful symbol helps to enrich the story's themes of isolation, death, and tradition versus change by creating parallels into the life of Emily Grierson, representing the changing times and culture of Southern society, and refining the story's sense of death. The Grierson house is described in the first passage as “a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated... heavily in the lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most selective street” (Faulkner 91). Just like Emily and the Greirson's, the house had once been prestigious, beautiful, and well respected by the people of this southern town.
St Bernadette was born in Lourdes at Boly Mill, France, on January 7, 1844. She was the daughter of Francis and Louise Soubirous and suffered from severe asthma. Bernadette was born into a loving and devoted family. At the time of her birth her family were relatively well-off financially; however, due to a series of misfortunes her family were soon plunged into a terrible poverty. Because of the family's poverty, they were forced to live in a single room that used to be a prison cell.
The education of Alice Walker leads to enlightenment of her races injustice and through her activism Alice discovers her ancestry has been persecuted for being a human of a different color, oppressed by our ignorant fore fathers. The same holds true for Myop, her enlightenment to her races injustice and oppression with the discovery of the corpse, rotting noose still dangling, “Myop laid down her flowers. And summer was over” (Walker 22). The growth of Myop with that one simple display of activism of a young black girl stems from the similarities in character of the hand of the
This is the case for Emily Dickinson and her poetry, as well as two very different texts, ‘Walking Naked’ by Alyssa Brugman and the play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison. They all show the desire to belong by several individuals, and all express the same issues that connect them, even though their stories are all vastly dissimilar to each other. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and ever since adolescence; she felt a lack of connection with the human social world. Her unusual connection with nature however had become her outlet of her lack of belonging in society. Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her.
From reading this short story “Used to live here once” I gathered that the theme was about the beauty of life after death. I was felt the theme could also be the spiritual journey of a woman after death. We learn the theme of the story how the writer has written the story, and how the sentences flow. Throughout this short story Rhys is giving the reader hints that this woman maybe dead, but that isn’t confirmed until the end of the story. For example, “The only thing was that the sky had a glassy look that she didn't remember” (Clugston, 2010).
Alice Walker Everyday Use Critically examine the representation of culture groups and communities in one or more texts studied. I have chosen to focus my study upon the novel by Alice Walker, ‘Everyday Use’. From the texts studied ‘Everyday Use’ appealed to me the most and stood out as being a great representation of different culture groups and communities, and ultimately how they affect identity. It is a complex story of different ideals and what it means to be part of a community or culture group, a story of what we inherit unintentionally and what we then choose to inherit when exposed to other cultures. ‘Everyday Use’ is almost an historical novel, based upon Dee’s family history.
In addition to the style of writing, the point of view in which the story is told also contributes to the list of differences between the two short stories. ‘A Rose for Emily’ is told in first person omniscient. Meaning, the story is written using first-person words such as ‘our’ or ‘we’ but is also aware of the thoughts and emotions of the people of the town that encompass ‘we’ and ‘our’. In contrast, the thoughts and
Foreshadowing in “A Rose for Emily” Despite “A Rose for Emily’s” confusing and sometimes hard to follow sequence of events, many things is foreshadowed in this story. Faulkner uses a lot of foreshadowing in this story. There seems to be some type of foreshadowing in every slice of the story. Through the story Faulkner flashes back and forth through various events in the life of Emily Grierson and the town of Jefferson. The following paragraphs will give just a few examples of this .