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ENG 1101 Fall 2020 OL20 (26956)
4) A short story by William Faulkner called “A Rose for Emily”:
a) Spot the descriptions of Emily at the beginning, when she is elderly. Can you find a
metaphor or a simile there? (You need to realize the difference between those two
“figures of speech” meant to be taken figuratively, not literally.) When you state someone
is a pig, you perform not mean it literally. The equal is when you say to someone you eat favor a
bird. It is not meant literally. The description of her hair color is literal, real, and it
also becomes a significant detail at the very end.
“she looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two compact pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one meet to another while the visitors stated their errand.”
b) Consider of metaphors and similes you operate in your control conversation. List a few. It is a
good thing for writers to use metaphors and similes!
This dwelling is clean as a whistle, As busy as a bee and alot more.
c) Who is narrating this story (that is not the same as saying who wrote In William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, the narrator begins by informing the audience that Emily Grierson has passed way. The narrator continues by reminiscing, showing various events that took place in Emily's life. Ultimately, the narrator reveals a secret about Emily. After her funeral, Horner Barron (a love interest of Emilys) is discovered in an upstairs bedroom. Emily had murdered Horner approximately forty years before the discovery of his body at her funeral. The town is shocked by the evidence that Emily killed Horner. There is slight difference between Emily and the functioning psychos that invade our protected society today. Hannibal Lecter, for instance, is a flawless example of a functioning psycho. The similarities between Hannibal Lecter and Emily Grierson suggest that Emily was a functioning psycho. Both Hannibal and Emily are in a deluded state of control. They both seem to have the ultimate or definitive word in their various situations. Also, they are both firm in their doctrine that what they say goes. However, a closer look at their situation reveals that they only control an incredibly miniature portion of their situation. Emily's life is full of her illusi Submitted by Jim Barloon, University of St. Thomas. One of the numerous, underappreciated advantages of being a instruction assistant or lecturer is the opportunity to coach anthologized stories over and over again to more or less recalcitrant freshmen. Though surprises, good and bad, occur, one becomes pretty adept at anticipating students' reactions and deducing their readerly assumptions and habits. Few, for example, figure out (unless their literary roommate has told them) what the male and woman in "Hills Like White Elephants"are debating-though, when told, they detect it very ironic that "Jig, "the woman, consumes so much alcohol despite her apparent concern for her child. Most first-time readers of "Araby"recognize that the tale concerns juvenile infatuation, yet few recognize, on their own, how the boy's feelings are colored and conditioned by his religious environment. And many of these similar students conclude, strangely, that Homer Barron, Emily Grierson's suitor in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily, "is gay. Homer Barron, a bluff man with a "big voice"who "cuss[es] the niggers"and despoils Southern womanhood, gay? What in the world-or in the text-could prompt such an anomalous Here's what we know for sure about Homer Barron: #1. Miss Emily kills him with rat poison. Oof. #2. The Jeffersonians don't like him much: he's a rough-talking, charismatic Northerner. And...that's about it. Everything else we can tell about Homer Barron is conjecture. But, like the people of Jefferson, we love to speculate. We don't know how involved Homer was with Emily—he may have intended to marry her, but became dissuaded by the wacky antics of her cousins and the town. We don't recognize why he went to her residence that last age, or how exactly his death took place. We also don't know if he liked women or men. The following line suggests that the people of Jefferson had suspicions about his sexual orientation:
Character Analysis
Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked – he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club – that he was not a marrying man. (4.1)
Here, the town seems to be saying that, even though he isn't the marrying caring, Emily might still manage to link him. The gossipy tone of the narration seems to imply a courtship of convenience: Emily is over thirty and therefore undesirable