Personal Narrative: The Myth Of Santa Claus

particular time and place. Faulkner himself has made this connection and simply admitted to writing about what he knew best: his “own little postage stamp of native soil” (Brooks, Time 251). Brooks further develops the notion that Faulkner uses his personal knowledge and experience in his essay “Faulkner and the Muse of History.” He describes Faulkner’s surrounding acquaintances stating that, “…the people that he knew had clinging to their lives a great deal of the stuff of history—the history that

the world was not made for a preordained purpose, or that any individual effort made toward change, will be forgotten and meaningless in a universe that will continue to be indifferent toward our existence is a despairing notion. Camus believed The Myth of Sisyphus was the personification of the Absurdist struggle. According to Greek Mythology, Sisyphus was a king who deceived the Gods and was condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder up a mountain by hand. The twist is that the

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is not able to make the long journey and he tells her to go home; he has no qualms about issuing the order. But when she persists, he relents, assuming that the only reason "old colored people" would embark on such a long trail would be to see Santa Claus. In a second instance of disrespect, he tells Phoenix that he would give her a dime if he had one, unaware that Phoenix has already picked up the nickel that fell out of his pocket. In a third example, he points a gun at her face and asks if it

tensions of the employees. No one likes to carry his tensions back home and if you fight with your colleagues and other people, you are bound to feel uncomfortable and restless even at home. Conflict management also plays an important role in our personal lives. Tussles and fights spoil relationships and only increase our list of enemies. Everyone needs friends who will stand by us when we need them. Conflict must be avoided at homes as it spoils the ambience and spreads negativity. Individuals tend