Strengths Of The Mind In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily
Christine Cruz Santiago Cruz 1
Professor J. Christie
English 102 Symbolism Paper
“Inner Strengths of the Mind” The reason writers use symbols is to draw their readers into the story or the poem, and bring their attention to a particular thing. In the stories to follow I will talk about the symbols that show a connection, objects and the reality of human strength will be appreciated. In A Rose for Emily by William Faulker, this writer has shown his readers the main character’s changing with her surroundings and the through the towns eyes. Emily’s house is a symbol of herself. Once her house was young and clean …show more content…
white and majestic. It was considered quite beautiful as Emily in her younger days she was slim long hair well kept. As they both got older they got run down and dusty, grey, bloated, and decrepit, both objects the towns people
People would like to pretend didn’t exist, an eyesore. They broke down together these were the only walls she ever had around her in the 75 years she lived. This house was the only constant in her life that never left her, or died on her. Poor Miss. Emily all her life being judged through the eyes of the town. The eyes of the town judging her as a young woman thin with long hair, but getting older now a spinster never dating. Eyes judging her mental stability when her father died.
Eyes judging when Homer Barron came into the picture, and when he disappeared. Eyes judging as she bloated and grew gray. The road brought no rose for Emily, she tried to find happiness as a young women, her father wouldn’t allow it no one was good enough for her, he turned all suitors away down the road they came. The same road that brought Homer Barron for sure she would find happiness this time, it had to be that road where love was not meant to be for her. The darkness and sorrow that led from town to her house.
Cruz 2 The Author of Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce tells a story of Peyton
Farquhar, a farmer and owner of a plantation and slave owner from Alabama. He was devoted to the southern cause but was unable to join the Confederate Army, his home and farm represented this cause and way of life he wanted to protect, he thought he had to do anything he could and took that chance when it came riding up his drive to his front porch.
From Owl Creek Bridge to
Peyton’s farm, it’s a thick mist of death. It wouldn’t have mattered to Peyton even if he could have seen it ahead of time, all he never even had a plan when he left his wife, children and farm down that mist of death toward the railroad tracks and the river that day. Through Payton’s eyes as he is strung up on the bridge with a gun to his head, he enters another world. He is suppressing the horrible reality of what is happening to him. His eyes close he has escaped down into the river below into the waters struggling to free himself of the rope, finally he does. He makes his way to the river bank and trudges through the woods, which he is not quite familiar with and hopes he is heading toward his farm. Praying and running he finally sees his farm, the house with the porch and his wife he runs up grabs and hugs her. He hears a noise opens his eyes drops dead into the water. He saved himself anguish by closing his eyes and seeing what he needed …show more content…
to in order to make it to the end. The writer to: This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie uses the trailer his father’s home as a symbol of memories. The smells and the mess, his father had been expired for a week in the Arizona heat, but he went in looking for things that he may be able to save. He was hoping to find pictures or something that would link himself and his father. He started to feel trapped in there with the clutter and heavy stench but it caused his mind to go back in time and bring back memories. When he was 12 years old he was caught on an underground wasp nest and struggled but couldn’t get his foot out if it wasn’t for Thomas Builds the Fire he
Cruz 3 might have died. Victor was starting to remember the meaning of their friendship that he had forgotten. Rebirth is what it means to Say Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is a bird, and a symbol, reborn from ashes, Victor and Thomas flew on a bird to Phoenix. When they arrived they picked up Victors fathers truck to drive back to the reservation, it was a long trip, a long road. He was on the rebirth of finding his inner self, getting to understand and realize what he had done and the repercussions from choices, he came back different. The eyes of the reservation were prejudice toward Thomas-Builds a Fire, this prejudice destroyed a friendship. These were probably the same eyes that Victor’s father could not deal with anymore, one of the reasons he wanted away from the reservation.
Victor was always more concerned about the prejudice than his bond with Thomas it almost stopped him from agreeing to take the money for the trip, all those eyes-what would they say? He realized he had no other choice, and once he got away from all the prejudice he began to see more clearly. Pat Mora the author of this poem La Migra was cleaver the border patrol police has no chance; he was not at home anymore he’s in her home. She knows every nook and cranny. She knows where to rest, drink, and survive. The border patrol police in Mexico, he drives all day all night around the edge of his Quota, Quota its very long, bumpy, dark, lonely, dusty, but I need it,
It’s my lively hood sometimes I only find one sometimes a truck load. His Quota is another symbol used by the writer. Her eyes burn with torture, this Mexican woman from the boarder who is being threatened by the patrol police. He is cruel and abuses his power; in the middle of nowhere he has made himself the law. This torture she feels is for her and her people, her eyes feel it see and live
it. This poem Lullaby by Ann Sexton is talking from the perspective of a women, it seems she is outside herself maybe a survival mechanism. Her home is the sanitarium; even though the
Cruz 4 screens are locked once she has her pearl she can go about as a free soul in her home wherever she wishes, like the moths. There are no locks no restraints she’s inside her home and her home is inside her. She hears the goats outside; they are the pathway for her to the other buildings, their calls. It’s the entrance and the exit, listen if you want to go. The eyes of the patients look upon with emptiness, it’s all gone. There is nothing to see its blackness, darkness. Where did it all go to, these people may have had a life and then one day it’s a tray of pearls.
Professor J. Christie
English 102 Symbolism Paper
“Inner Strengths of the Mind” The reason writers use symbols is to draw their readers into the story or the poem, and bring their attention to a particular thing. In the stories to follow I will talk about the symbols that show a connection, objects and the reality of human strength will be appreciated. In A Rose for Emily by William Faulker, this writer has shown his readers the main character’s changing with her surroundings and the through the towns eyes. Emily’s house is a symbol of herself. Once her house was young and clean …show more content…
white and majestic. It was considered quite beautiful as Emily in her younger days she was slim long hair well kept. As they both got older they got run down and dusty, grey, bloated, and decrepit, both objects the towns people
People would like to pretend didn’t exist, an eyesore. They broke down together these were the only walls she ever had around her in the 75 years she lived. This house was the only constant in her life that never left her, or died on her. Poor Miss. Emily all her life being judged through the eyes of the town. The eyes of the town judging her as a young woman thin with long hair, but getting older now a spinster never dating. Eyes judging her mental stability when her father died.
Eyes judging when Homer Barron came into the picture, and when he disappeared. Eyes judging as she bloated and grew gray. The road brought no rose for Emily, she tried to find happiness as a young women, her father wouldn’t allow it no one was good enough for her, he turned all suitors away down the road they came. The same road that brought Homer Barron for sure she would find happiness this time, it had to be that road where love was not meant to be for her. The darkness and sorrow that led from town to her house.
Cruz 2 The Author of Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce tells a story of Peyton
Farquhar, a farmer and owner of a plantation and slave owner from Alabama. He was devoted to the southern cause but was unable to join the Confederate Army, his home and farm represented this cause and way of life he wanted to protect, he thought he had to do anything he could and took that chance when it came riding up his drive to his front porch.
From Owl Creek Bridge to
Peyton’s farm, it’s a thick mist of death. It wouldn’t have mattered to Peyton even if he could have seen it ahead of time, all he never even had a plan when he left his wife, children and farm down that mist of death toward the railroad tracks and the river that day. Through Payton’s eyes as he is strung up on the bridge with a gun to his head, he enters another world. He is suppressing the horrible reality of what is happening to him. His eyes close he has escaped down into the river below into the waters struggling to free himself of the rope, finally he does. He makes his way to the river bank and trudges through the woods, which he is not quite familiar with and hopes he is heading toward his farm. Praying and running he finally sees his farm, the house with the porch and his wife he runs up grabs and hugs her. He hears a noise opens his eyes drops dead into the water. He saved himself anguish by closing his eyes and seeing what he needed …show more content…
to in order to make it to the end. The writer to: This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie uses the trailer his father’s home as a symbol of memories. The smells and the mess, his father had been expired for a week in the Arizona heat, but he went in looking for things that he may be able to save. He was hoping to find pictures or something that would link himself and his father. He started to feel trapped in there with the clutter and heavy stench but it caused his mind to go back in time and bring back memories. When he was 12 years old he was caught on an underground wasp nest and struggled but couldn’t get his foot out if it wasn’t for Thomas Builds the Fire he
Cruz 3 might have died. Victor was starting to remember the meaning of their friendship that he had forgotten. Rebirth is what it means to Say Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is a bird, and a symbol, reborn from ashes, Victor and Thomas flew on a bird to Phoenix. When they arrived they picked up Victors fathers truck to drive back to the reservation, it was a long trip, a long road. He was on the rebirth of finding his inner self, getting to understand and realize what he had done and the repercussions from choices, he came back different. The eyes of the reservation were prejudice toward Thomas-Builds a Fire, this prejudice destroyed a friendship. These were probably the same eyes that Victor’s father could not deal with anymore, one of the reasons he wanted away from the reservation.
Victor was always more concerned about the prejudice than his bond with Thomas it almost stopped him from agreeing to take the money for the trip, all those eyes-what would they say? He realized he had no other choice, and once he got away from all the prejudice he began to see more clearly. Pat Mora the author of this poem La Migra was cleaver the border patrol police has no chance; he was not at home anymore he’s in her home. She knows every nook and cranny. She knows where to rest, drink, and survive. The border patrol police in Mexico, he drives all day all night around the edge of his Quota, Quota its very long, bumpy, dark, lonely, dusty, but I need it,
It’s my lively hood sometimes I only find one sometimes a truck load. His Quota is another symbol used by the writer. Her eyes burn with torture, this Mexican woman from the boarder who is being threatened by the patrol police. He is cruel and abuses his power; in the middle of nowhere he has made himself the law. This torture she feels is for her and her people, her eyes feel it see and live
it. This poem Lullaby by Ann Sexton is talking from the perspective of a women, it seems she is outside herself maybe a survival mechanism. Her home is the sanitarium; even though the
Cruz 4 screens are locked once she has her pearl she can go about as a free soul in her home wherever she wishes, like the moths. There are no locks no restraints she’s inside her home and her home is inside her. She hears the goats outside; they are the pathway for her to the other buildings, their calls. It’s the entrance and the exit, listen if you want to go. The eyes of the patients look upon with emptiness, it’s all gone. There is nothing to see its blackness, darkness. Where did it all go to, these people may have had a life and then one day it’s a tray of pearls.