Paudora Welty: A Short Story

"You've just now been repaid with interest, for all your loving-kindness to our guest. He's proved his warm and grateful feelings toward you; It's with a pair of horns he would reward you. Yes, I surprised him with your wife, and heard his whole adulterous offer, every word" (Tartuffe 3.5.3-8).

On page 6 it states, “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.” (Duncan 6) This quote means

Then with impatience he exclaimed, “Enough of this! I will have your precious bells prepared by the next morning, your red cloth in two days’ time and if this is not fast enough to please your worthy Captain tell him that the 'Santa Maria' may be worthy of fast service but that the 'Maria Galante' might have more personal service,” a sly grin found its way to his wrinkled face, “for any man who might pay her naughty

Throughout the novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave-Girl, Linda Brent faced constant hatred and racism because of the vicious hierarchy of society. Individuals believed that just because of skin color, somebody’s life is worth more than another person’s. If Linda Brent had the ability to pass as white in order to escape this slavery, I feel as though she would not. I think that she should not have tried to pass for white too, because Linda’s grandmother often said that God had a plan for everybody and that is why slavery happened.

“Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl” (1813) goes into detail about the harmful and negative treatment of slaves through the life story of Linda Brent. The slave narrative discusses how Linda went through her early childhood, witnessing maltreatment and being targeted by not only her master, but also those who wanted to take advantage of her. Throughout the novel, it is evident that many people who owned slaves treated them like they weren’t human, and it was a common belief that slaves weren’t. The question of morality comes into play when looking back on the violent punishments, sexual abuse towards women, and the view of Christianity towards slaves. In addition to being denied their most fundamental rights, slaves endured physical and

The short story called “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker is about two different classes of people, upper class and lower class. In the story, there is a little girl named Rosaura and her mother who fall in the lower-class category of people. There is also another little girl named Luciana and her mother named Senor Ines who fall in the upper-class category. Rosaura was invited to Luciana party in which she thinks she’s invited as a guest however she is actually attending to assist the party. Rosaura’s mother attempts to explain this to her however Rosaura refuses to listen. At the party Rosaura helped hand out food,

Considered to be one of the most influential writers in the history of the state of Mississippi, Eudora Welty had a long and very eventful life. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi during 1909. Her mother and father, Christian and Chestina Welty brought Eudora and five other brothers up in Jackson, Mississippi in a little house only two blocks away from the state capitol on Congress Street.

"Rosa, tell me," Bron purred as he gently traced the edge of his desk, "how many cases have you won?"

If one ever finds this one day please return it to my beloved Lucie, then she shall speak out the words, “I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die,”(pg 389) for I.

that father was my father, those dead are my dead, and that summons answer for those

(In this line Gregory makes another joke about Sampson, and begins by jeering at him – he is not a servant but an unpaid slave who isn’t even strong.)

[line 9 act 1 scene 3], to talk about marriage. At the end of this

I loathed my thick glasses compared to his perfect eyesight, so I ate carrots every day for months hoping to correct my vision. I hated how much shorter I was than he, so I constantly stretched in an effort to make myself taller. Even though I loved Star Wars and Legos, I pretended they were lame because he thought so. Instead of admiring the gadgets and gizmos that Jimmy Neutron created, I let him pick the channel, and pretended to enjoy watching the Suite Life of Zack and Cody. My brother Drew and I are fraternal twins; but, growing up, I didn’t feel like a twin at all.

Now, I was still at Joseph’s home, and he has already left. I was alone, and I had a feeling that something terrible has happened. Later, I heard Jesus, the one who resurrected the two dead bodies who were placed in me, was about to die.

My subject is my aunt, Florence Lucey. She is a 65-year-old female, who identifies with her gender. She is a white, heterosexual, Catholic, Italian woman who has lived in Connecticut for her entire life. She currently lives in Weston, CT, in the home that she has lived in for the past 20 years. Florence has been married twice; she was widowed in 2003 and remarried in 2014. She has one sister, Donna, my mother, and 4 kids, all who are out of the house. I was able to gather my information over facetime and received real-time data coverage. I will be referring to my subject as Florence throughout this paper.