“she had her secret comfortable understanding with a few favorite saints who cleared a straight road to God for her” but the priest was unable to stop what God had ordained for her. These feelings of unexpected abandonment that Granny felt in the past and in her future self were all reflective and made intolerable to Granny due the fact that Granny never got to confront George and release her feelings of being jilted by him at the altar on that day were the “cake was not cut‚ but thrown away” and
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Different Aspects of Emily Often people are stuck in the past and cannot accept the truth‚ the present‚ and modernization going around them. The character of Emily Grierson in William Faulkner ’s "A Rose for Emily" is one from this category of people. Emily Grierson was a strange personality with distinguished characteristics. From the point of view of many‚ she is a crazy woman because she kills her lover in order to keep him forever with herself. Miss Emily Grierson is a static character that
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Ryan Johnson Nunley 24 April 2014 English 102 What the Future Could Hold Many advancements have happened in the United States. Most of them have had positive effects; some have had negative effects. Government intervention has strongly increased as our demographics grows in age and population. Depending on a citizen’s political views‚ this increased government intervention could be good for the United States‚ or it could be just the opposite. Few have been living with the same government
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson In “The Hunger Games‚” the district really never has a say so on that is selected‚ but yet everyone gathers to watch. Similarly in “The Lottery” villagers gather to select a ticket to find one villager to be stoned to death. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ the events of the narrative seem to suggest that traditions are a normal part of society. However a close look at the use of irony and foreshadowing demonstrate the lack of normalcy in the community. The tension
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plot. “It began to grow dark‚ and suddenly realizing the situation she got up hurriedly and went about closing windows and doors” (Gioia 126). The setting in that part of the story was one of impending danger. Now‚ compare that with what happens in the plot in section II‚ paragraph two‚ of page 126‚ “Alcee rode his horse under the shelter of a side projection where…” (Gioia 126). Now‚ beyond the fact that a man has ridden his horse (a cliché in romantic novels and films) up to a married woman home alone
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their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed” (Gioia & Gwynn‚ p. 430). This causes the narrator to be ignorant to the harsh realities that surround him such as poverty. For example‚ “The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses‚ where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages‚ to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens …” (Gioia & Gwynn‚ p. 430). The drawing board in the story represents the narrator’s coming
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Louis Ramirez Sharon Ballentine English 1302 19 July 2012 Sylvester’s Dying Bed Poetry Essay Langston Hughes (February 1‚ 1902 – May 22‚ 1967) was an American poet‚ novelist‚ social activist‚ columnist‚ and a playwright from the Harlem renaissance period that composed several memorable pieces throughout his lifetime. The majority of his work was aimed towards racial consciousness. In the poem Sylvester’s Dying Bed‚ the main character (Sylvester) is an African American lover‚ from the same
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Cited: Eliot‚ T.S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ and Drama. By X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Pearson/Longman‚ 2006. 603-07. Print.
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Cited: Yeats‚ William Butler. “When You Are Old.” Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ and Drama. 4th ed. Eds. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Longman‚ 2012: 651. Print.
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Marlene Romo Professor Williams English 1B 4 December‚ 2011 Othello’s Tragic Fall According to Aristotle‚ a tragedy must include the downfall of the tragic hero brought upon by his hamartia‚ in other words his weakness or flaw. It must also be comprised of the hero’s peripetia‚ where when he once had it all‚ it is now all lost. After the peripetia‚ the anagnorises follows; this is where the hero attributes his downfall to his weakness or flaw. The hero must be noble both in birth as well as
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