"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 town doesn't exactly care about Emily, but yet at the same time they do in means of their curiosity, wanting to know what is in the house. " When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one ...

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This problem that environmentalist fight day after day is caused by the globalization of our economy. ... The short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson shows many similarities to globalization of our economy today. ... To begin with there are endless factors in the story that relate the town in the story "The Lottery" to the global economy. ... In the town, one person has to suffer for many to be happy. ... Yet, once a year for a protest, in the newspapers or in our sociology class we learn about the price that others have to pay for our joy. ...

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So, we are fed our opinion of Emily rather than left to create it. ... By making the narrator a generic member of the town we don't tend to judge or form an opinion of him/her either. ... 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 rea...

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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."" ... Jim Wheeler starts to explain what the town must do to achieve justice from Mr. ... Oakhurst discusses the sentences of other wrongdoers in the town. ... His escort out of town was for that reason. ...

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First of all, I found the town way too skittish and rather uneasy. ... That's the kind of feeling that I got for the town... When you've got this lottery going on, of course it's amazing for someone to live 77 years and never get picked especially if there are only 300 people in the town. At first I thought that this town and all of the other towns that participate in the lottery had no real value for life. But then you look at us and at our world today, with all the mass murders and slaughtering of innocent people. ...

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The use of description shaped my views on the characters, Miss Emily's house as well as the whole town. ... The dialogue indicates a town's person is most likely the narrator. ... The narrator begins the story by telling us of Miss Emily's death and how everyone in the town attended her funeral. ... "It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. ... "When Miss Emily died, our whole town went to her funeral: t...

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• Grade Level: High School

In "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson the reader is shown how one town has become accustomed to a cruel act and therefore over time accepted it. ... The Lottery is a prime example of how humans can become numb to brutality exemplified in our everyday life. ... In the Lottery the town gathered together to draw to see who would die to bring a good crop for the upcoming season. The town knew that what they were doing was not only wrong, but also had no scientific merit at all. ... The short story by Shirley Jackson puts all of these realizations into something that a reader can draw back on and...

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Their source of entertainment is the word around town. ... Faulkner paints her as a tradition and town monument (reprinted in Greg and Thomas R. ... He uses the house to symbolize Miss Emily and her static character among the rest of the town and community. ... 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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• Has Bibliography
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Also, that this town lottery is a country tradition, a drawing for a tractor or something of that sort. ... Normally we don't have to give our personal information just to enter a charity drawing or raffle. ... The long standing tradition of the town and other towns in the vicinity is to select a scapegoat to stone to death! ... If we don't learn about our past, the same events might happen again in the future. ... Rather, knowledge of our great history greatly reduces the chances of catastrophic events. ...

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Faulkner best uses characterization to examine the theme of the story, we are the products of our environment. ... The summer after her father's death, the town brought in a construction company to begin paving the sidewalks. ... The town then begins to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons together. ... Burduck says: Our narrator knows that Emily purchased poison, ostensibly to kill "rats-. ... The town stood staring looking at the body. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• 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. Before he takes is slumber, his wife constantly berates him for being so nice and easygoing to the rest of the town. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Faulkner portrays the townspeople and Emily in the Southern town of Jefferson during the early 1900's. ... The town of Jefferson watched and debated Emily's every move, wondering why she did the things she did. ... Emily's father had extreme power in the town and was very close to the past mayor, Colonel Sartoris. ... The description suggests that the house was mainly built to impress and attract the attention of the town. ... Faulkner shows the tragedy of Homer, a result from our devotion to social roles that limit, rather than liberate, our true selves. ...

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In the first sentence he writes "When Miss Emily Grierson Died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument". ... Ironically, Emily is buried with the rest of the town's history, laying next to the men who fought in the civil war. ... In our society, change can be extremely hard when we have only known the same thing all of our lives. ... This is just another example of the way many in our society hold onto things and how Emily just can't let go. ...

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Through the characterization of Sammy, Updike uses a simple heroic gesture to teach us that actions have consequences and we are responsible for our own actions. ... He is a simple checker at a small town A & P, not moving up in his job or down, simply stagnant. The town where Sammy lives is located five miles with a summer colony on the Point. ... It's our policy." ... Updike successfully shows that our actions have consequences through Sammy who was trying to take a stand on a small but heroic principle. ...

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Without the daily interaction with people throughout our lives, life would seem very abnormal and somewhat empty. ... The first interaction we see Emily have with anyone is when some men from town came to discuss with her the fact that she had not paid her taxes. ... Emily, not willing letting go of the fact that she does not have taxes in the town, tells the men directly that she has no obligation. ... Also, there is another confrontation with the men from town. ...

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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. ......

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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. ...

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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson In the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, villagers gather together in the center of the town each year for an annual lottery. ... The idea of stoning a person to death for any reason in our society is cruel and unusual punishment and sickening to most. ... What would happen to this town if the lottery was stopped? ...

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Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1990 in the town of Waukegan, Illinois to parents Leonard Spaulding & Esther Marie Moburg Bradbury. ... But even though his beginning background started out like this, some how he got the skill required to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of our time. ...

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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. ...

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The town's governor and minister continuously preach to people in Boston about how worldly items do not matter and how sacred the law of God is; both of these men go against what they have told others by doing what they have said not to do. ... Once the town of Boston discovers the act of adultery Hester commits, she is put out in the market place to face public shame. ... Hawthorne's writing of The Scarlet Letter is his way of making the lives, culture, and customs of the past relevant to our modern lives. ...

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We are led to believe that it is a poor section of town by the characters description of his house "The high cold empty gloomy rooms- and "Through one of the broken panes- Joyce wanted us to see the dark side of the story so that the "light" (his friends" sister) would become easily recognizable. ... With reference of the cold dark environment in which he lived, we also see some of the darker side of living in a lower class section of town. ... When she is in his thoughts we see description of light and colour white "The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of he...

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One gets the feeling that the nature of his own town is very beautiful, and that the citizens are quite well familiar with each other - It is a small town where shameful talk is always going around, one could imagine. ... By paying twenty million dollar he got an incredible and impressive view of our planet plus six days stay in the international space station. ...

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It has Spanish stores with the ethnic foods, our own banks and doctor's offices. ... At one point in the story I did connect with the author, she stated that Puerto Ricans live in a small town wherever they go. ...

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Kathleen Norris uses the stories from the town to build grounds for her argument on gossip. ... Through gossip tales we can find, as mentioned before, great tales of bravery, tragedy, comedy, and even news in our current lives today. ...

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• Grade Level: High School