A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner

The book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, tells the story of a slave girl named Linda Brent who fought many mental and physical battles throughout her life in order to oppose the system of slavery. This autobiography was written by Harriet Jacobs, known in the book as Linda Brent, and uses a multitude of psuedonyms in order to conceal the identity of those within the book. Harriet Jacobs had succeeded in putting forth a new, unconventional slave narrative that depicted the emotional and mental anguish slave women were subjected to on a daily basis. Through sexual victimization by their masters and the ever-present maternal fear of losing their children to the slave trade, slavery was a far more terrible fate for women than for men. Throughout her twenty-seven year life of being a slave, Harriet Jacobs attempted to defy the idea and social structure of slavery at every turn.

The main theme in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is family. It is not a pleasant topic throughout the book. Poor or no communication creates intense barriers of misunderstanding and resentment between family member, but not particularly siblings who are rivals for their mother’s love. The family from the beginning isn 't based off love because of the sort of arranged marriage of Anse and Addie Bundren. Most of the explaining of the families dynamic is all explained in Addies one and only chapter.

The book, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl starts off by introducing the us to a slave girl who is known as Linda who represents Harriet Jacobs. The books narrates the life Harriet who was born into slavery in 1813 near Edenton, North Carolina. The time period where racial slurs had been widely and slavery was very popular. She had not know she was a slave girl until the solid age of six years after her childhood had been demolished. The main idea for publishing this book was to show the hardship she had faced through her childhood and growing up as a slave. The book is suppose the appeal the sense of empathy towards those that still suffered in slavery or are still suffering in third world countries and provide a better point of view to historian. It was written for everyone to show compassion through her enslaved brothers and sisters. Chapter 1 starts off by introducing a girl that had lived a great life until her mother had died at the age of 6 and she is sent to work for the mistress her mother had worked for all her life and live with her Grandmother. The Grandmother had raised $300 dollars and the mistress had borrowed that money from her. Eventually the mistress dies and instead of letting all her slaves free in her will she gives her slaves to relatives. The slave girls is inherited by a five year old girl. The main point of this first chapter was to argue and support the suffering of slavery. The young girl who had only lived six years of her life is basically

Many stories back then consisted of women being dominated over their husbands just because they are female and are considered the ones responsible to maintain the housework. The men who were considered dominant in this era, had the ability to control everything in terms of what the woman could and could not do. Along with that, it was expected that women were to be submissive to their husbands, or male figures in charge of their lives at the time. But in these three different stories, the outcomes of the woman all result in a significant impact to their lives in rather negative ways. In A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, The Story of an Hour, and Desiree’s Baby both by Kate Chopin, the reader experiences the reinforced and subvert gender norms present in the women with male figures who are dominant and have control over their lives.

Think back to a most recently read story. Everyone has their favorite characters, and some know everything that went on in the story. All stories have different settings, characters, themes, and moods in their stories; that is what sets every story apart from each other. In a story, the author has to have a definite setting; time period, location, time of day, and other important details like the characters, and relationship with them. Setting is very important in a story for several reasons.

Some of the most unique short stories were written by William C. Faulkner who embodied the Southern sensibility, and to this day his stories continue to be enjoyed by many. Faulkner was born from a rich family who had accumulated wealth before the Civil War, but like many families in the South they had lost all of it during the conflict. His family moved to Oxford, Mississippi which is the basis for the fictional town of Jefferson in most of his stories from Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner’s stories create a mood to make readers feel like they were also a part of the Southern town. Both “A Rose for Emily” and “Barn Burning” tells about people’s lives in the South and their continuing struggles with society. These two stories have many similarities in their setting, but they also have differences that make it more interesting and uncommon. The atmosphere established in these stories is quite unique, but both have a sense of mystery about them.

As I lay dying is an American novel authored by William Faulkner. The novel is among the best-ranked novels in the 20th century literature. The Faulkner’s seventh novel derives the title from the book XI of the homers the odyssey. In the introduction, Agamemnon converse with Odysseus: ‘’as I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes could not close my eyes as I descend into Hades’’. The book consists of fifteen characters with more than fifty-nine chapters. It narrates the narrative of the bereavement of Addie Bundren and the family expedition and motivations to honor her longing to be put to rest in the Jefferson town (Faulkner, William, & Michael 43)

There are many tales about crime and horror, things that have happened in the past. Some stories involve horrible people who are psychotic murders and others may be more simple people who are mentally ill and are in need of some good care. Such is the story of “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily, is plagued with mental instability and is sheltered from society; but today such a woman would receive treatment options to help her cope and overcome her apparent attachment disorder.

In a small town one of the unwritten rules seems to be that you tend to know everyone in it. This is true in any small town in America. Faulkner begins his tale (via narrator of which we never know the identity) of Miss Emily Grierson’s home with a vivid description of where the events take place and the townspeople 's reaction.

Life moves on but sometimes past acts as a vacuum that sucks you back in time. William Faulkner tells a story about a woman who is stuck between her past and present. She loved a man so much that even after his death she kept his body. The story revolves around Emily Grierson who is stuck in her house, the house that stays the same throughout her life while the whole has moved on. Even though she never made an effort to interact with the world, she was always the spotlight of her neighborhood.

The play is based towards the end of the 19th century during the winter season in a traditional rural America farming town. The setting is "the kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright" where "signs of incompleted works" (Glaspell, 1916, p. 5) appear as "signs of incompetent" housekeeping to the men but as signs "of a disturbed consciousness" to the women (Noe, 1995, p. 39). The kitchen is described as

William Faulkner is known for his many short stories, however, many has wondered what has influenced him in writing these stories. Like his well known, most famous short story “A Rose for Emily”, which has always been compared to “Barn Burning”, one of Faulkner’s other short story. It only make sense to compare them two together because these two stories has may similarities , whether it may be in setting , characters or style they favor each other . Nevertheless they also have many differences too, which make them even more interesting and unique. This paper is going to explore all those aspects including Faulkner’s past, to get a clear idea of how different yet similar these two stories are.

William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897 but lived most of his life in Oxford, a small town nearby. After dropping out of high school then briefly joining the Canadian Air Force, he returned home and completed three terms at the University of Mississippi (Fulton 27). During his early twenties Faulkner spent time in New Orleans and Europe before returning to Oxford and publishing his first book of poems. In 1929 he married Estelle Franklin and published his first novel, Sartoris, which became the first of the series based on his fictionalized idea of Oxford. The theme of his work centered on the toll taken by white southerners on African-Americans. Through the 1930’s, Faulkner spent time in Hollywood writing screenplays to generate money, and was known to be a heavy drinker. In 1936 Faulkner had his first stay at Wrights Sanitarium, a nursing facility to treat his binge drinking (31). By the mid 1940’s, he rediscovered himself as a writer with the publication of The Portable Faulkner, and in 1949 won the Nobel Prize for literature (Boman 1). After moving to Virginia to be close to his only daughter Jill, Faulkner seemed to find happiness in life. A month before his death, he published The Reivers, which won Faulkner his second Pulitzer Prize. The Southern writer would make his final return home to Mississippi, and admitted himself into Wrights Sanitarium on July 5, 1962. He suffered a heart attack and died the

Throughout the first half of Mockingbird Harper Lee builds a sweet and loving portrait of growing up in the disappeared world of small town Alabama. Harper Lee, nevertheless, proceeds to undermine her depiction of small town gentility throughout the second half of the book. Lee dismantles the sweet facade to disclose a rotten, rural underside filled with prejudice, ignorance, and social lies. However, no one in Mockingbird is totally evil or good. Every character is human, with human defects and faintness. During the 1950’s in the small region of Maycomb, the mentality of most southern society reflected that of the nation. Most of the people were racist and discriminatory. In the novel, these notions are explored by a young girl, Scout, using the point of view of Scout. This point of view works as, It is the voice of an insightful, self-governing six-year-old child and simultaneously it is the mature voice of a woman telling about her childhood in retrospect.

At the core of Dilsey Gibson’s character is her capacity for faith, and the unwavering stability that lends to her life. She is in the employ of a family for whom she has worked for countless generations, and whom she now sees growing progressively more unstable with each passing day. As she leaves the center of her spiritual faith, the Church, she undergoes a revelation in which she is able to finally understand the ultimate fate of the Compsons, and thus of herself and her own family.