Religious Symbols and Symbolism in Faulkner's Light in August

Loyalty should be considered a quality that is supposed to keep family ties together and use the shield of bravery to protect it. It is proven that devotion in families of today, are lost and bravery shows no character in a person. It is a personality that each individual has in them only to be used in the most courteous way and should not be used selfishly. Loyalty cannot be purchased and must be earned. If it used in the wrong way, it can climax to a disaster.

Leaning against a car fender in the front yard of an ordinary home, nervously sits a six year old, pondering his drowning innocence as he stares at an empty pie tin. Gary Soto, in his excerpt from A Summer Life, vividly recalls just how he felt that day after stealing a pie from the German Market. At this time in his life, Soto acted to please God, had faith filled morals, and described himself as being “holy in almost every bone,” but boredom got the best of him on that brisk summer day. In this narrative, Soto utilizes imagery, diction, and biblical allusion to recreate his experience for the readers. Gary Soto, the author, uses precise diction to convey the thoughts and feelings that ran through his head before, during, and after he had stolen the piece of pie.

It can be argued that Christmas as a holiday is far removed from the way it was first envisioned. That said, there are certain element that many people share or celebrate making it an arguably complex holiday. As the preeminent children’s author of his generation, Geisel serving heavily on the minds of his young readers helped shape what Christmas means for many people with his narrative How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Though at the surface the work is a simple morality tale that promotes unity over consumerism, it has subtle nuances that make the work interesting on several

In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner uses imagery and symbolism to both illustrate and strengthen the most prevalent theme; Emily’s resistance to change. William Faulkner seems to reveal this theme through multiple descriptions of Miss Grierson’s actions, appearance, and her home. Throughout the short story it is obvious that Emily has a hard time letting go of her past, she seems to be holding onto every bit of her past. Readers see this shown in several ways, some more obvious than others.

Southern Gothic frequently depended on the conviction that day by day life and the refined surface of the social request were delicate and fanciful, camouflaging aggravating substances or curved minds. Faulkner, with his thick and multilayered composition, generally remains outside this gathering of experts. In any case, "A Rose for Emily" uncovers the impact that Southern Gothic had on his written work: this specific story has an ill humored and denying climate; a disintegrating old manor; along with rot, festering, and grotesquerie. Faulkner's work utilizes the shocking components to highlight an individual's battle against an abusive society that is experiencing fast change. Another part of the Southern Gothic style is appointment and change. Faulkner has appropriated the

William Faulkner was born in 1897. Growing up in Mississippi inspired Faulkner to incorporate his southern roots into many of his works. Many of his works intertwined when it came to the setting and even some of the characters of his stories. William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” is no different. In “Barn Burning” Faulkner brings in his native south through the setting, family dynamics, and social class.

“Is this not Joseph’s son?” – The people in the synagogue said this about Jesus to emphasise the fact that Jesus is, they believed, the son of Joseph, who is a carpenter by profession, which links into the core value of embedded identity. According to the culture of the time, one must give preference to one’s own family and village. It is in this very pericope that Luke has Jesus implies that he is the Son of God and that his purpose and mission are a priority over his family and the role he has there.

“The Christmas Story,” by Langston Hughes shows the day Jesus was born into the world. Based on the poem by Hughes, he believed in Jesus. The poem also explains everything about where Jesus was born and his circumstances that night.

    The American author Joyce Carol Oats, in her Master Race, wrote that "our enemy is by tradition our savior" (Oats 28).  Oats recognized that we often learn more from our enemy than from ourselves.  Whether the enemy is another warring nation, a more prolific writer, or even the person next door, we often can ascertain a tremendous amount of knowledge by studying that opposite party.  In the same way, literature has always striven to provide an insight into human nature through a study of opposing forces.  Often, simply by looking at the binary operations found in any given text, the texts meanings, both hidden and apparent, can become surprising clear.  In William Faulkner's famous short

William Faulkner, recognized as one of the greatest writers of all time, once made a speech as he accepted his Nobel prize for writing in which he stated that a great piece of writing should contain the truths of the heart and the conflicts that arise over these truths. These truths were love, honor, pity, pride, compassion and sacrifice. Truly it would be hard to argue that a story without these truths would be considered even a good story let alone a great one. So the question brought forward is whether Faulkner uses his own truths of the heart to make his story "Barn Burning." Clearly the answer to this question is yes; his use of the truths of the heart are prevalent

actions to show that no one will own or control him. He has no regard

Father Christmas is like the Holy Spirit in that they both care for the people and they are there to

There are several ways in which William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" is indicative of literary modernism. It depicts a relevant historical period and is part of the frontiersman literary tradition (Gleeson-White, 2009, p. 389). The author utilizes a number of purely literary approaches that were innovative for the time period in which the tale was originally published (in 1932), such as employing a young child as a narrator complete with misspelled words and broken, puerile thoughts. However, the most eminent way in which this story embraces the tradition of literary modernism is in the author's rendition of dynamic social conventions that were in a state of flux at the time of the writing. Specifically, his treatment of race is the inverse of how race is generally portrayed in American literature prior to the early part of the 20th century. An analysis of this integral component of "Barn Burning" reveals that Faulkner's unconventional rendering of African American characters in a desirable social status particularly as compared to that of the Snopes clan is crucial to this tale's inclusion as part of the tradition of literary modernism.

William Faulkner was said to be one of the best Southern Gothic writers and the Southern Gothicism was brought about by Edgar Allen Poe in 1839. His novels and short stories such as Absalom! Absalom! (1936), The Sound and the Fury (1929), and “A Rose for Emily” (1930) were of the Southern Gothic genre. This paper will discuss what Southern Gothic is and its characteristics, along with William Faulkner and how Faulkner’s work conforms to the Southern Gothic genre.

(Lackey 66) McEachern was a tyrant who perverted the true meaning of religion for Joe Christmas. He saw it as his duty to convert Christmas to Christianity and to force him away from a sinful life. Christmas was essentially raised to hate what he became. His sin becomes a way for him to resist McEachern’s oppression but it also traps him. Joe Christmas was conditioned to believe that sin is wrong and by committing sins he was fighting everything that he had ever been taught.