After reading the story To Build a Fire one would understand how one can be oblivious to the fact that they can die at any time. ... The last story that I believe confrontation with death is negative is the story of Home Burial. ... Their home seemed to be on the land of the husbands' family as there were other graves out in the field. ... These two stories the people involved understood the fact that death can come at anytime to anyone. ... The two works in which death is negative is the stories of Home Burial and To Build a Fire. ...

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During Henry's time away, Lyman can not wait for Henry to come back. ... While Henry is away at war, he manages to mail one letter home. ... As time passes, Henry returns home where his brother awaits him happily. When Henry returns home, Erdrich shows how war changes a person. ... In conclusion, when Lyman looks at the red convertible, he can see a part of Henry. ...

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Going home."" He is realizing here that he misses home and wants to be there. ... He would like to be home but he is stuck in the white mans world. ... We think we are the creme de la creme but when in fact we can become a very savage and very uncouth society. ... It shows the civility of the Indian people and how the white man world can be harsh and just make you think where you are from. ...

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Symbols can vary. Symbols can range from colors, to characters or just plain statements. ... Miss Emily is a clear symbol of the past and Homer Barron is a clear symbol of the present. "Characters can be symbolic, too: Miss Emily, in "A Rose for Emily," represents a rapidly fading way of life: Homer Barron represents the new century and its new ways (olemiss ). ... After Homer died she kept him in her bed. ...

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Miss Emily can be described as a "monument" in this story because of her inability to handle the loss of control her father had over her after he died. ... It started with the death of her father and with Homer Barron. Homer had been seen out very frequently with Miss Emily after the passing of her father. ... The revelation about Homer led Miss Emily to have to take control. ... Once Homer came along, Miss Emily struggled with dealing with Homer and his sexuality. ...

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In this crucial stage, children need to experience love "the unconditional love only strong family ties can produce. ... As the story approaches its end, Sarty can no longer stand by his father. He runs to the master's home, warns him of the danger, and keeps running never to return home. ... When Homer disappears and Emily refuses to leave her home, the town does not give the situation any thought beyond its gossip value. When Emily finally dies, and the townspeople enter her home for the first time in years, they find Homer's poisoned dead body in the upstairs bedroom. ...

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The reader can observe that Vashti practically worships the machine. ... Today, you can work from home, attend school from home, you can do just about anything in the comfort of your own home. ... Why walk or travel all the way to a library when we can just download what we need by one click on our devices? ... Everyone is too content with staying home. ... This fact can be verified by looking at all the virtual communication products and services we have today that were developed by us. ...

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Emily is so used to having her father be there for her, she figures that by keeping his body he can still be part of her life. ... The foreman of the company was Homer Barron. ... Finally, Emily takes the offensive by poisoning Homer so he can't abandon her- (3). ... After Homer's disappearance Emily is seen now and then in the windows of her house. ... Homer Barron was in the bed. ...

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He is at a party thrown by the Westerhazy's when he realizes that he needs to get home. Instead of walking home or driving, he swims the Lucinda River. ... This is confirmed at the end of the story when he finally gets home and his house is empty with no one to be seen. ... He did not have his upscale lifestyle waiting for him when he returned to what used to be his home. ... This can only indicate that he wanted to block out the terrible things in his life, or that he was so mentally out of things that he could not remember. ...

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When Homer comes into the picture she grabs hold of the idea that she now has another to replace the one she has lost. She does not enjoy being alone so she does everything she can to persuade this man to stay with her. When she realizes that this is not working, her fear of loneliness and further change drive her to poison Homer. Everyone else in the town believed that Homer had just abandoned her. ... By showing this in Miss Emily, the author has successfully depicted how even the idols and monumental people in our societies can be corrupted by their fears....

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Usually, when someone returns home after having been gone for a couple of years, the person brings gifts. ... Not long after Dee comes home, she is demanding, things she used to look at with disdain. ... She brings home a child that is too old to have been conceived within wedlock. ... Dee wants the quilts, so she can hang them as a display of her heritage, and does not think Maggie is worthy of owning them. ... She continues to argue with her mother until Maggie walks into the room and says that Dee can have the quilts. ...

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The first perspective is that of Homer and the modern generation. ... Homer Barron is a cheerful character, a northerner, an outsider.Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer would be in the center of the group.? ... Emily fears that Homer's love will die away. ... so that she can still feel his love every night. Homer Barron ends up being Miss Emily's dried rose. ...

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She has lost interest in her home which now "smelled of dust and disuse" (29). There have been no visitors in her home for the "last ten years" (28). ... But Homer Barron is not the marrying type. ... So in her twisted mind, the only way she can insure that he will be with her forever is to murder him and keep his body with her for eternity. ... The room where Miss Emily keeps Homer Barron's body is like a shrine to her love for him. ...

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Comparison of The Famous Although every author has his own style there can be some similarities between stories using literary devices. ... 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 her home was Homer, or what was left of him. ... Emily isolates herself form the residence of her community, just the way the house is isolated from all the other homes. ... In "The Guest" the school was also isolated, like Emily's home. ...

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Termination of a Family and a Home Throughout literature, an author's work almost always reflects their mood and character. ... One of his short stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher," is about a termination of a family and their home. ... They are victims of their own environment only in the sense that they have made their own home one of death. ... The discrimination of Roderick and his home is based on reason and "exciting knowledge who attainment is destruction." ... This famous quote can also be used to describe the short story of Poe's describing the Fall of the Hous...

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All this time, she contemplates whether to go home or not. Chris discovers that she is there and visits her, trying to persuade her to go home. ... Towards the very end, Jamie leaves Billy's apartment and decides to go home, to where her mother needs her. The use of identity in "Runaway" is when Jamie tries to discover who she is so she can go home. ...

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She is not in touch with her community, that tries to communicate to her, so she can live a more normal, healthy lifestyle. ... The man, Homer Barron, was from the north and seemed to be a traveling fellow. In the story though it seems that Miss Emily murders Homer. ... The town had found the body of Homer Barron in a bedroom, dead for some time. ... Emily had a big problem with the fact that things change and nothing can be done to stop it. ...

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In the beginning of the story, he finds himself deciding what to do due to the fact that his home is being painted. ... In doing so he boards a train to journey to his father's home town. Once in his father's home town, he enters a temple to say prayers before continuing on to his father's. ... Like Moses, he never actual can get to where he need to the post office, his version of the Promised Land of Israel. ... Agnon leaves the reader in "To Father's House" with the narrator outside his father's home and not actually in there. ...

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The intrigued crowd "(was) not surprised when Homer Barron was gone," (246). ... He returned late one evening, "and that was the last (the town of Jefferson) saw of Homer Barron and of Miss. ... The gifts that Emily had bought for Homer were all arranged "as for a bridal," (247). In the bed, lay Homer Barron, himself, or "what was left of him," (247). ... As one can see, Emily couldn't let go of her father along with her male friend. ...

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" (Olsen 192) Emily yearned for her mother to stay home and comfort her but she was aware of the fact that she couldn't. ... " Upon arriving home, Emily felt perfectly normal and she no longer needed her mom's love and affection. ... It also highlights the strains it can put on a family dealing with a lack of income. ... Living in poverty can be a burden and both the parents as well as the children can feel the pressure it comes with. ... It brushes up on the points of poverty and the burdens it can put on a family. ...

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An archetype in the short story can be suggested that Emily's over-protective father represents Emily's feminist struggle; the ongoing battle for women, blacks, and poor Caucasians to have an equal piece in society. ... Emily is so used to having her father figure around, that once he dies she clings on to Homer; even after killing him. ... This point comes across at the end of the story after Homer's body is found. ... At the end, the gray hair found on the pillow represents Emily's vision of love for Homer; which never existed. She continued to cling to the corpse be...

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In the trial, the justice asks Sarty, " I reckon any boy named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell the truth, can they" (pg. 154)? This is the part of the story in which the readers can first get a sense of the moral dilemma that Faulkner is trying to portray in this story. ... It is a little while after the trial, when Abner, Sarty, and his brother get home, that the turning point takes place. After they get home, Sarty is asked by his father to go to the barn and get the wagon oil. ... It is also after Sarty comes to the realization that he can never go back home Th...

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One day, Patrick comes home from work in a very strange mood and tells Mary something awful. ... Dahl represents her relationship with her husband as a loving devoted one with images of Mary's life revolving around this relationship, "...Merely to please herself with the thought of each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come home", this suggests that Mary is longing for her husband to come home and for his company. ... Dahl's representation of woman suggests that they are not always what they seem and even the most gentle woman can be angered by thugs, although not...

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Homer Barron, a stranger who has come to town on business, the town begins to scrutinize her actions and incisively gossiping about her and her new "fellow."" Eventually, the women of the town decide that Emily's relationship with Homer has begun to disgrace her family name, and decide to call upon her cousins from Alabama to put an end to her charades. ... With this, the townspeople are convinced that Emily and Homer are now married, and subside from their gossip on the issue. Later, Homer is seen entering Ms. ... However, if Emily ever uses this status to her advantage, she can expect t...

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Three days later Emily finally allows for the body to be removed from her home. ... In the final part, the horde comes and buries the corpse as Miss Emily can no longer deny entry (509)." ... How much can one love someone if their face is what bothers them the most? ... Pride and stubbornness are two characteristics that can be both good and evil. Too much pride can lead to a life of being alone and stubbornness can lead to a life, where people don't want to change. ...

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