Eulogy For Emily

Emily Grierson was found dead in her Jefferson County home in Mississippi four years ago. Originally, her death was classified as natural cause, but now, it has been determined her death was a Homicide. Overwhelmed may they have been, the day of her funeral, when police also investigated the death of a man reported missing from New York City several years prior, Homer Barron. Ms. Grierson came from a well off family as she was the heirs over her late father’s estate. She was quiet and distant after the passing of her father, but her house itself was a nuisance to the community. But, was that enough for someone to kill her?

Unfortunately, as Daniel neared the house, he noted the glow of fire inside. Meanwhile, the turncoat house guard and doorman escaped in the same direction the robbers had. He knew there was no time for interrogations, let alone a chase in vain. He had been given an assignment, and that was to inspect he house. He needed to stop the fire in order to do so.

Imagine standing outside a tent in the forest, having a fear of the unknown. This most likely happened to emily during her camping trip this summer. While interviewing emily, i’ve discovered many interesting things about her, including her family life, hobbies, and school activities.

Hello, my name is Emily DeSonia, my friends and family call me Emily. In the past, I have taken basic math, Algebra 1, and a little bit of Geometry. So far, I have figured out that I like Algebra, but Geometry is a little more difficult for me. Overall, I like math a lot more than other subjects in school. In my spare time I like to play piano, violin, and guitar. I also enjoy taking long

Miss Emily started to live with memories of her late father ,one day she looks out of the window of her imaginary world and sees something that she might like about the change or the new south. The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks .Along with the construction company ,riggers and mules and machinery a foreman also comes as a fresh hope of life for Emily, his name is Homer Barron, a Northern laborer symbolized development or change. Homer is “a Yankee- a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face” (Faulkner 31. Emily deeply needed to “become humanized"(471) and love someone and to be loved since the passing of her father "left her all alone and a pauper" It was as if she demanded more

I’m taking you to your dad,” The violent force shouted out. The lands grew darker, even as the horrid creatures took more fell shapes around me. Whence the land became black as pitch and the shadows darker still, I waited for I knew that from this desolation a figure would rise. A figure so dark and terrible in it’s anger that few, nay, none, could withstand. A torch in this place would be akin to a fire pit in the deepest sea chasm. You believe it should shower the area in bold light, but all it accomplishes is being snuffed out by the dark walls around it. The monster in the deep dark was known by me to be just, but blind in anger. I know this, for I am his son. A voice, deep as the roots of a mountain, came bellowing from the head of the

However, just at that moment the ice reached Gregory’s heart, and he had no time to react as a roar sounded all around him and a wave of sudden heat hit him like a truck. His world was bathed in crimson and flame. It seemed as if the entire courtyard was a wasteland of flame. It was impossible for anything to burn the quickly without being prepared prior to lighting the

“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris” (Faulkner I). Emily abandoned with no wealth but a house from her father's will. Her father was the man in her life that took control and isolated Emily by enabling her to have a husband and a proper life. Emily creates her own illusions, a reality that permanently detaches herself from the real world. Therefore, as the years passed the town developed a new society, but Emily has gone old unable to accept the changes in her surrounding by refusing to have a mailbox build on her property. She lives in the past that enables her to adapt. This gothic short story, A Rose for Emily (1930),

Emily is strong. She is wise. She sits with Natalie at her own house late at night at an impromptu visit with tea ready. She is balancing a half-full teacup on her knees, and right now, Natalie thinks she has all the answers to life and the whole bloody universe in the crook of her lively little mouth.

Grace Sparks Mrs. Potts Eng1123-C 17 February 2015 The Fallen Miss Emily In life, everyone suffers some sort of grief, whether its through death or heartbreak. In "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner, a lonely and selfish woman named Miss Emily suffers both. Within the story, Miss Emily loses her father and a lover to death.

William Faulkner was a native of Mississippi who was born in New Albany on September 25, 1897. Faulkner attended the University of Mississippi as English major student 1919. He completed three semesters before dropping out of college in November 1920. During the time of 1929-1936 Faulkner wrote several novels, was a Nobel Prize winner and a literature writer, and until his death, he was infatuated by the south. One of his greatest short stories, “A Rose for Emily” is one of Faulkner’s novels that keep up with his theme of the south, but it mostly centers around the theme of death.

I woke up early - too early for my liking - and remembered that today was the day that I would push my powers to there full potential. Tiredly I walked over to Autumn, who automatically locked eyes with mine as we held a long gaze. She reached up to my face with her small fragile hands and began waving them in the air like a crazy person. She must've heard me talking to Emily, who was going to babysit her whilst I was out fighting. I keep forgetting that she is a witch too, after all she acts like a normal child. And she will be until she's around 15, for the time being she will just have enhanced sences. Gently, I lifted Autumn from her crib and began to get her changed into some warm comfy clothes.

Ironically, death provides formidable lessons to be taught about life and the power of death stems conflict in tradition vs change as main themes is symbolized by the rose being given to her in the title of the story “A Rose for Emily.” In retrospect, the death consumed life of Emily is best compared to the depletion of tradition in the face of the growing modern changes in society at that time and despite attempts to thwart death in every measure it will always prevail per, Falkner. For this reason, the character Emily stands for the representation of how the conflict of change vs tradition and the power of death affected the town of Jefferson, customs, and herself.

We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux (torch) rather to glow than flame.

In the story “A Rose for Emily” we look into the depths of the demented mind of Miss Emily Grierson. Born and raised during the mid-1800’s in the fictional city of Jefferson, Mississippi in the fictional county of Yoknapatawha. The story begins in its present time of approximately 1934 A.D. at her funeral and courses back through her life to the many points of tragedy she endured.