Andrea Gore Dr. Jordan ENG 465 July 2, 2013 “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner This story is divided into five sections. In section I, the narrator recalls the time of Emily Grierson’s funeral and how the entire town of Jefferson attended her funeral in her home. The men went out of respect for Emily, and the women went out of curiosity to see the inside of her house. No one has seen the inside for 10 years. The townspeople thought of Emily as a sort of hereditary obligation.
Change Essay September 30, 2010 A Shiloh For Rose Change greets the main female characters in the short stories “Shiloh” and “A Rose For Emily” and it's indomitable presence results in a common theme. The two women find themselves reacting to the change in their lives with different approaches, but with a common sternness. The character of Emily Grierson in “A Rose For Emily” is a secluded denier to the change that has come to her small southern town. Her first encounter with change comes after the death of her dominating father. She resists giving up his dead body, frightened by the absence of his control that has kept change from entering her life.
they can neither explain nor treat his condition, and it soon becomes clear that Ivan Ilyich is dying. he story begins with a couple of Ivan's friends discussing his death during a recess in a court trial. When Ivan's friends hear the news of his death all they can think about is who is going to be promoted to Ivan's position. Even Ivan's wife does not seem disturbed by her husband's death. All she is concerned about is how she could obtain a grant of money from the government on the occasion of her husband's death, and how much money the government will give her out of his pension.
Homer would give Emily rides around town in his buggee so the townspeople believed that they were beginning to become a couple. Then once everyone saw Emily buying men’s toilet sets and bridal things for a man, the townspeople then began to think that they were now married. After a while, the people noticed that Homer was not in town and they thought it was just because he was going to get his home ready for Ms. Emily to move into, but in reality that was not really the case. After a few town meetings and a few complaints, people noticed that there was a foul odor that surrounded Emily’s house and the mayor did not want to say anything to her because he thought it would be wrong and disrespectful to Ms. Emily to tell her that she smelled. So the townspeople took that problem into their own hands and decided to sprinkle lye in her yard in the middle of the night when she was sleeping.
They seemed to only pay attention to her. How she stayed in her home and never came out. How her father died and her sweetheart left her. They talked about her faliing fpor a Northerner, Homer Barron, who was also a day laborer and that did not come to there liking.Then they described a strong reek at Miss Emily’s house. A few towns people complianed about it, some people went to action.
Kevin Rodriguez ENC 1101 Profesor Lisenbee September 23, 2012 Homework Essay 1 Crosswalk by Deborah Tannen This essay is basically about cross-gender miscommunications that happen in everyday life. Tannen explains the types of communications that men and women have. In an example, Tannen says that a woman who owns a bookstore needed to speak to the store manager. The owner spoke to the manager about helping the bookkeeper with the billing. But after a few days the manager never did anything.
A deferring, uncomplaining woman, Moira had apparently taken second place to Innostat all her married life, and just when it seemed that she would soon have Jack all to herself, he up and died. But it wasn’t just Moira and her five children who looked lost, Stephanie thought. Everyone seemed bewildered. As the CEO appointed by the board to succeed Jack just before his untimely death, Stephanie knew that a lot of people would be looking to her for answers. She edged forward to pay her respects to Moira, aware that a lot of curious eyes were fixed on her.
The guy pushing the cart is wearing a protective suit, goggles, and an apron. Suddenly, the guy in the suit stops and started to taunt him. A detective from Kansas City visits JJ, a media liaison, to give her the files to a certain case from Kansas City. Detective McGee called JJ a week ago, and JJ told him to send her the files through mail, but he decided to come in person and give her the files. He didn’t come with the files; he came with numerous of small notebooks.
He wrote that the team stopped to stare at the offending weapon, during an autopsy. News of the president's death traveled quickly and by the end of the day flags across the country flew at half mast, businesses were closed and people who were happy at the end of the Civil War now were sad from Lincoln's shocking assassination. The president’s corpse was taken to the White House, and on April 18 it was carried to the Capitol rotunda. On April 21, Lincoln's body was boarded onto a train that went it to Springfield, Illinois, where he had lived before becoming president. Tens of thousands of Americans lined the railroad route and paid their respects to their fallen leader during the train's solemn progression through the North.
Summers and Mr. Graves (name symbolizes death). Mr. Graves is the postmaster for the town and is the person who swears Mr. Summers in as the lottery official. Which means he is in charge of gathering everyone in the community and most importantly reinforce tradition rules. Ironically Mr. Summers has failed to follow most of the rules that have been passed down to him. For example there was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, Mr. summers was also supposed to walk among the people, but years and years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to lapse.