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    Summary of Donald Akers “A Rose for Emily” In his article entitled “A Rose for Emily‚” Donald Akers states that this short story will “remain a remarkable‚ provocative work regardless of the critical approach.” Akers described Emily as a weird character because of her refusal to pay taxes in the story and telling the tax collectors to discuss her taxes with a dead man. The man had been dead for ten years‚ and she was pretending he was alive. The author states that Emily’s being weird may appear

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    Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ________________________ Period: _______________ “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner Vocabulary: 1. remit – pardon 2. mote – speck 3. gilt – gold-edged 4. pallid – pale 5. hue – color/shade 6. temerity – courage 7. teeming – swarming 8. diffident – shy 9. deprecation – derogatory (belittle) 10. tableau – scene 11. cabal – secret intrigue 12. impervious – not able to pass through 13. acrid – bitter 14. thwart – to

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    of Setting‚ Rhetorical Devices and Structure of "A Rose for Emily" and "Soldier’s Home" William Faulkner’s short story "A Rose for Emily" was initially distributed in an April 1930 version of Saturday Evening Post. It is a gothic grotesque‚ and at first look seems to have little in the same way as the short story‚ "Soldier’s Home" by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway’s story gives off an impression of being the tale of a soldier recently returned home from benefit in World War I. "A Rose for Emily" seems

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    A Rose for Emily is a sectionally divided short story about the illness Emily suffered after her Father’s death‚ the fear of the townspeople that she would kill herself‚ her resistance to the inquiry of the townspeople thirty years earlier‚ Emily’s death and the events that follow thereafter. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” strikes the interests of the readers by how it is in accordance with Henry James’ “The Art of Fiction” because of how it reflects life with such a degree of frank realism

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    Who is Miss Emily? In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner‚ Miss Emily was a classic outsider who controlled and limited the town to access her true identity and she did this by remaining hidden and away from everyone. She was a very muted and mysterious person. Emily lived a very hard life being under control of her father until his death. The townspeople of Jefferson were also people who kept their eyes out for her as well. Emily was the type of person who was set in her ways

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    William Faulker’s " A Rose for Emily" tells the story of a young woman who is violated by her father’s strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily’s father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of the South. Like her father‚ Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life and refuses to change. This short story

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    Critical Thinking Assignment “A Rose for Emily” 1. “And now miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.” Upon doing some reading and research on William Faulkner‚ small details have begun to emerge about his upbringing and his deep ties to the south. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” was first published in an issue

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    PT202 Advanced Darkroom Tuesdays Spring 2013 Assignment: Moving Beyond Traditional Printing For this assignment you are to consider the five printing and one shooting methods outlined below. You will find that each of these techniques will produce interesting results. Start with a method that interests you and continue on from there. 1) Combination Printing: Using two enlargers- 1 Set up enlargers and easels using negatives of your choice. 2 Place a sheet of white paper in

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    authors. In fact‚ his short stories‚ "Barn Burning‚" and "A Rose for Emily‚" are two of the best-known stories in American literature. Both are examples of the reflection of contemporary Southern American values in his work. “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily” are two stories both written by William Faulkner. “Barn Burning” has a theme of family loyalty verses loyalty to the law. “A Rose for Emily” has a theme of power by death. Emily is thought of as a monument‚ but at the same time she is pitied

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    I. THEORY Negative Knowledge Model by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Adorno’s own view is that art and reality stand at a distance from each other and that this distance gives ‘the work of art a vantage-point from which it can criticize actuality’ (Adorno 1977:160). He said‚ this critical distance comes from the fact that literature has its own ‘formal laws’. The first law is the ‘procedure and techniques’ which in modern art ‘dissolve the subject matter and reorganize it’ (1977:153). Second

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