A Journal Without A Beginning

Happiness is something that all people, no matter what race, gender, or social class, strive for. Based on lifestyle or perspective each person has their independent idea of what happiness is, but everyone shares an end goal to live their definition of a happy life. Many people, though, struggle in finding their way to this goal. They face hardships and challenges that test their happiness every day. Happiness, though somewhat indirectly, does take learning and training to discover and maintain.

Emily’s upbringing is plagued with difficulties. She is the first-born of a young mother and the eldest of five brothers and sisters. As a baby, she is

By 1891 Benjamin had moved along with his daughter Julie Ann and her husband Donald McDonald, Robert, with his youngest son, William H. was living with a young family of 3, Ned Wyld, Margaret and young daughter Mary. Even Benjamin’s ex-step daughter Nancy Burns had moved to the westernmost end of the road to Haines Lake.

Author’s Note- Hey guys thanks for sticking around for chapter two! Okay so first of all beatzlc and anyone else who was wondering, the gang is in 10th grade or sophomore in HIgh School. Anyway I’m going to get on with the chapter and sorry I just got home from a baseball game and I just ate dinner so this chapter will probably be short since I want to bring this story up on Tuesdays, Thursday, and Saturdays! Now that I got that schedule for three days in the week I can stick to that! Oh. and don’t worry about my other fanfictions I am working on that and trying to bring some one-shots up but I am loaded with school and you might have to wait for that but let’s get to the chapter!

(Gaines, “The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman,” 50) On the bright side, Ernest J. Gaines wouldn’t be the man today without his aunt, Augusteen Jefferson. She taught him discipline because he knew when he did something wrong he’d take out the whip himself and get his whipping. She has shaped him into a man and wouldn’t be him without her and has influenced him into the writer he is today. His aunt did everything for him. In The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest

7) What is the significance of Miss Emily’s actions after the death of her father?

Written works are creative displays of human thoughts. Unlikely stories have captivatedaudiences that transcend generations. Essays have enlightened people and even sparked revolutions.Normal everyday writing has played a vital part in understanding the past, captivating the present, andshaping the future.Writing has been able to fill in the gaps of history. By analyzing primary sources such as old letters, andjournal entries, historians have been able to take note of details in particular time periods. Letters suchas Mary F’s letter (Source E) to her cousin provide specific details on the life of someone living on theprairie in 1863. The failure to preserve common writing, despite their simplicity, would cause history tolack perspective.Today

Emily’s father did not let her have a normal childhood life. By

The critical analysis paper on A Rose for Emily shifts us to another time, when Emily’s father was still alive and how their background as Southern aristocrats who had their fortunes were reversed due to the Civil War. Even with their fortunes gone, both father and daughter remained haughty as ever and they rebuffed every man who had courted Emily to pursue a relationship with her or marry her.

Nellie Bly, a journalist and social reformer of the late nineteenth century, sought to uncover existing corruption in social institutions through writing expose features. A feminist, social activist, and writer, Bly both contributed to and was influenced by the social and literary forces of the time period. During the late eighteen hundreds, Nellie Bly challenged social expectations of women, questioned the morality of certain social institutions, and defined a distinctive writing style by incorporating the trends of the time into her own approach. At sixteen, Nellie Bly, then named Elizabeth Jane Cochran, began her course as a feminist in 1885 by writing a letter in opposition to an article that touted the home as the proper domain for women.

She is a hardworking, honorable, yet stubborn woman. Since birth, she is pampered and is raised as if she were white. She follows in her mother’s footsteps and has a relationship with a white frenchman named Joseph Billes. She lives with him and works in his store where “sacks weighed almost as much as {her}, but she pulled and tugged” to get merchandise into the building (363). When her relationship with Joseph is not taken nicely by the townspeople she still stays honorable to him even after he leaves her. They have five children together and Joseph remains in their lives even though he is with another woman. Emily is like her mother, she wants her children to choose white partners because it can give them a better life. She becomes stubborn with T.O’s wife, Geneva, because she is dark

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman begins with an introduction in which the editor explains the process of writing it. The subject of the novel, Miss Jane Pittman agreed to tell him her story in 1962, after years of attempting to persuade her. The writer, who is also a teacher, wants to hear her side of the story feeling that history often omits certain things. When Jane begins to tell her story, she is already over 100 years old and sometimes forgets some things. Because of this, the story is not necessarily Miss Jane’s story but rather the story of a community that applies to many people. The editor also reveals that sadly, Jane had died before the novel was finished.

Emily, a tailoress, was destined to marry (to Samuel Douglas Deans in 1911 and having three boys, Samuel (b 1912), Alfred (b 1914) and Harold (b 1918)) as well as the third Tolhurst daughter Helen or Bertie, a church stenographer (to salesman Arthur Holman in 1916 and having two sons William (b 1917) and Alan (b 1922)).

The narrator was not a very maternally loving mother to Emily. "The old man living in the back once said in his gentle way: `You should smile at Emily more when you look at her'" (200). Unlike the mom's portrayed in the 1950's, the narrator could not

Miss Emily lived her life almost throughout on display before the town of Jefferson and ultimately this resulted in her lack of socialization and human interaction. The fault in this matter lies with her father, the respected mayor of Jefferson, who protected her and kept her under thumb, driving away every suitor that came to call. People came to picture poor Miss Emily as “a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door” (Faulkner 35). In this visualization, her father clearly stood between her and the real world as a threatening and domineering figure. One might believe that such a prominent figure would interact with the public on a daily basis in a positive manner, but it appears that the Grierson status only encouraged the prying eyes of the townspeople to impede on Miss Emily’s