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a rose for emily
REACTION PAPER “A ROSE FOR EMILY” BY FAULKNER

This story is a kind of sad and sorrow, Emily was a unhappy girl who lost her father and later she discovered that her fiancé was homosexual, this was too much for her and she decide to kill her boyfriend and live with the dead body for 40 years until she died.
Here we can see that she doesn’t’ live in real life, she was in a fantasy, her pain turn her in a fantasy and she create a barrier; she was totally outside of reality, analyzing the title of this story, “a rose for Emily” I believe that rose means; pain and at the same time means love and death, symbolizes the passing of time in the life of Emily, the rose has thorns that reflect the character of Miss Emily distant and sour. The pink color looks in the room where the main character hides her fiancé Homer Barron.
This happen in real life, sometimes when we have problems instead of faced it we act like the problem is not there, we live out of reality, we prefer to believe that don’t have problems and this is worst that the real problem.

REACTION PAPER OF “FLIGHT” BY JOHN STEINBECK

This history reflect most Salvadorian families reality when fathers go abroad of the country, and live back his wife and children’s, is the older one of the children’s who took the role of his father and have to take care of the family, so he live his childhood to be a manhood.
These families have a farm, like the most families in Mexico and here in El Salvador, at the same time, he struggles with an external complication when he is sent to buy medicine for the family, which is considered to be a man’s job. While on his trip, he ends up stabbing a guy and is later pursued by the man’s friends. The climax of the story takes place when his horse is shot and he loses his tools, resulting in an even bigger disadvantage for him in the wilderness. The end comes when Pepe finally gets up to his feet and realizes at

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