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    care. Make sure not to get in any more bad situations." He whispers before running off over to his parents. I blush as I ran over to my mom and hid behind her legs. I looked over to see the Shado family looking at me and I looked away when I saw Hiro blushing. -Two Years Later After Meeting The Shado Family- *Niaome’s P.O.V* I walked down the street on my way to my first day of school when I bumped into two people. The three of us dropped our book on the ground. At the same time we all grab somebody

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    oldest member of the Springfield family‚ Charles Springfield sent an invitation to his broken family to reunite. Charles lived with his lonesome for many years in the Louisiana swamps. His family had long since broken up and lost contact. His family consisted of his ex-wife Maud‚ his son Billy‚ and his daughter Mary Jo. All received a letter from Charles inviting them to his home to pay their last respects to him due to his bad health. Upon receiving the letter the family was hesitant to accept because

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    Faulkner’s "Barn Burning" involves the Snopes‚ a sharecropper family that has moved 12 times in the memory of the primary participant‚ Sarty. Sarty is the youngest of four children to Abner and Lennie Snopes. The older brother and twin sisters are not named. Also with the family is Lennie’s sister‚ Lizzie. Of this family‚ Abner and Sarty are the most active‚ around whom the theme focuses. Also‚ the land owner‚ Major de-Spain‚ is the latest target and recipient of Abner’s retaliation. Sarty’s type

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    of a transition from one stage to another‚ as from adolescence to adulthood. In the story ¡°Barn Burning¡± by William Faulkner‚ Sarty‚ who was the son of barn burner- Abner Snopes‚ he experienced his Rite of Passage at the end of the story. Although his decision leads to his father¡¯s death‚ it helps him to independent from his father. I think he made the correct decision not only for himself‚ but also for his family and society. First‚ his decision is for himself- Sarty. His father‚ Abner Snopes

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    the world is what we say it is (Modernism PPT). The story I will be using is Barn Burning by William Faulkner. In this story I found two examples of modernism one was the experimentation with consciousness and the experimentation with time. William Faulkner experimented with the consciousness because he use the consciousness of a young boy that was torn between his father and abstract justice. So Sarty represents the rebellion

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    In William Faulker’s shorty storyBarn Burning” they story is narrated about a father name Abner Snopes and his son name Sarty Snopes. Sarty finds out that his dad has been responsible for burning down barns when he has a conflict with others. His father words are used to manipulate and instill fear on Sarty. "You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you."(Faulkners 1938). This is one example of words that are used to get Sarty

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    Compare and contrast Faulkner’s characterizations of Abner Snopes in “Barn Burning” and Miss Emily in “A Rose for Emily”. How does Faulkner generate sympathy in the reader for each character even though both characters are guilty of terrible crimes? Toward which character are you more sympathetic? Explain why. Two characters are worth to compare in Faulkner’s fictions Miss Emily in “A Rose for Emily”‚ and Abner Snopes in “Barn Burning”. Emily Grierson is an important figure in the town. She is not

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    A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro l Plot “A Family Supper” tells the story of a Japanese family after World War II. The son‚ having lived in California for several years‚ returns to Tokyo to see his father and sister Kikuko. The son and the father talk about the death of his mother due to poisonous and the failure of the father’s jointly owned firm. The father tells his son about how honorable he thought his business partner‚ Watanabe‚ was even though he had committed suicide. The daughter

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    from Barn Burning‚ coming of age comes with curiosity and questions to sort out their many growing ideas. Laura and Sartoris have always been influenced by the older people closest to them‚ but when they are exposed to the real outside world they begin to see the emotions of other people and the way that they act and react towards different situations. Laura and Sartoris begin to make decisions on their own‚ that have been effected by the people outside their normal encounters like their family. Coming

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    The thief. Owen Barns’ feet stomped up the steps into his house. He could smell the sweet aroma of his mom’s fresh lasagna drifting in from the kitchen. “Back from school?” she called out‚ “Anything extravagant happen today?” “Oh‚ same old‚ same old. ” Owen replied. He grabbed the remote and switched on the TV. The news station music was just coming on. “Good afternoon and thanks for watching the KCSX news at 5‚ your down the middle coverage of the Atlanta metro. A burglar has gotten away

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