While writing "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner decided to use flashbacks in time to foreshadow the surprising ending. ... Faulkner does a great job in leaving a lot of unanswered questions up to the reader to answer at the end of the story. ... Here Faulkner does a great job at the end leaving the reader in wonder. ... The state of awe Faulkner leaves the reader in is one of the reasons that this story is one of the classics of our times....

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• Grade Level: High School

In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," we are shown a glimpse of this transition in a town called Jefferson and through the character of Miss Emily Grierson, a survivor of the Old South who serves as an emblem of the traditions and ways of life in the past while representing it's evil and romanticizing it in the post Civil War era. ... After analyzing William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," it is clearly apparent that Faulkner chose to represent Miss Emily as a painful and sad survivor of the Old South. ... Faulkner presents us with many situations where Miss Emily clearly r...

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Symbolism in the two stories of death In the two stories of "The Lottery" and "A Rose for Emily" symbolism is used in the same way. These two stories are about death and the way symbolism is used in both. In "The Lottery" the black box is symbolic of death and faded traditions. While the settin...

• Word Count: 954
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• Grade Level: High School

J.R.R. Tolkien was a man of great creativity. He was one of the best storytellers of our time. Tolkien had a way a pulling you into his story. He made you feel as though you are one of the characters. Tolkien became a professor at Oxford where he became a master of language. He even created a ...

• Word Count: 1856
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is one of the great classics of American literature. ... His novels and collected short stories go beyond autobiography, trying to, in William Faulkner's words, "put all the experience of the human heart on the head of a pin" (Kennedy A3). ...

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