The town of Jefferson plays a big part in shaping the meaning of Miss Emily. ... "Set on what had once been our most select street."" as demonstrated in this excerpt, her house looks as if it's standing strong and steady. With town gossiping, it is understandable that this reflects the town's value. ... The uses of Faulkner's writing techniques help create in our minds the meaning of Miss Emily. ... Thus, the setting of the story plays a substantial role and important in molding and structuring the meaning and personality of the characters'. ...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

So, we are fed our opinion of Emily rather than left to create it. ... We come to think of the narrator as the voice of the town as a whole, and we are made to take his word as our own. ... So we are ultimately transformed into citizens of Jefferson through the narrator and through our common feelings of and for Miss Grierson Instead of focusing on actual changes within the main character, Faulkner chooses to concentrate on a change in the town's as well as the reader's opinions of Emily. Each change of our opinion of Emily's character comes through the revelation of some ne...

• Word Count: 1870
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The townspeople detest the outcasts and wish for them to depart from town. "It's agin justice,"" said Jim Wheeler, "to let this yer young man from Roaring Camp "an entire stranger " carry away our money."" ... Oakhurst discusses the sentences of other wrongdoers in the town. ... Oakhurst played a game of poker with Tom Simson and took his money. ... His escort out of town was for that reason. ...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Living in a small Dutch village in the Catskills, Van Winkle is loved by the people in his town. ... Everyone in the town was for the most part happy with Van Winkle, except for his wife. ... As the two "men" reach their destination, he discovers more dwarfs playing a game of ninepins (equivalent to bowling) having fun and carrying on. ... He is insistent that the story is true, and that it follows historical happenings in the start of our early country. ... Rip Van Winkle might as well be one of the most famous a pieces of art ever to come out of our early country. ...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In our society, we have this idea about marriage and all of its glory, but in reality, this is not always the case. ... Jackson paints the picture of a lovely small town, with beautiful outdoors, and a charming population. ... The town's children are all playing together, the ladies have all come together to gossip and the men have begun to discuss the daily trials of small town life. For most of the story, readers learn about the lottery, how it is conducted, who conducts it and how it has remained (although other towns have given it up) a strong tradition they submissively hold. ......

• Word Count: 932
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This short story and this movie use creatures we consider harmless and transform them into our deadliest foes. ... The setting in the motion picture is a small coastal town in California that is quite a distance away from the nearest city. ... At the restaurant the birds attack and all the people in the restaurant can do is watch as the birds batter the rest of the town. ... The setting in the story is also a small coastal town but it is near London, England instead of in California. ... She is the schoolteacher of the town, and she used to be in love with Mitch. ...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This story takes place in a small town that practices a traditional lottery. ... Finally Jackson showed how society influences the behavior of our children. ... The parents do not play an influential role in their lives because they do not tell the kids of the cruelty and inhumanness of the "game." ...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I argue this point because Emily fell in love with Homer Barron, a Yankee, who was contracted by the town to pave its sidewalks. ... In "A Rose for Emily" Faulkner placed Emily in the perfect spot of the town. Faulkner writes: It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily light-some style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. ... The location of this story played a big role, which makes it an important literary device. ...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The visualization of Tessie speaking shows that she is vibrantly smiling and looking forward to playing the lottery. ... When it is decided that Tessie was going to take her position in the traditions withheld in their town, she became quite outraged as very accurately depicted in the film. ... Due to pre-judgments a lot of readers may get the impression that this town should look like something from the movie Children of The Corn, where the residence still wore Colonial or Amish style clothing. In the movie however there is depicted a small town with shops and houses alike, the inhabitants...

• Word Count: 1409
• Approx Pages: 6

The story begins with young children gathering in the town square. They are laughing, playing, and generally having fun doing things that children do. ... It is only after we create some distance in between ourselves and our shortcomings, that we are able to truly criticize ourselves and our actions. ... When there is a talk about lottery, the first thing that comes to our minds is a huge amount of money. ...

• Word Count: 822
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He was born in Cape Town in 1805. I chose Richard because he is caring to other people around him and he fights for what he thinks is right and I think that I can relate to him because we have similar personality and we both treat other people of different kinds as our equal. ... In the later parts of the novel he plays a larger role because of his beliefs and action he commits because of his idealism. Throughout most of the novel Richard isn't physically described besides the subtle mentioning of his age in certain parts of the book such as Richards birth which suggest his birth during t...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This let us know that the stones will play an important role in the story later on. ... After reading that part, the question that comes to our mind is "Why are the women afraid of the pile of stones?". ... He's warning the other people saying that the other towns are considering to stop the lottery, and they should think about it too. ...

• Word Count: 797
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The people of the town they live in start thinking of Atticus as an outcast because he was defending the colored man and what more was on his side. ... This is where assimilation comes into play. ... Each story can help us get a better perspective of our own society. ...

• Word Count: 687
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." -Gloria Pa...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School