William Faulkner's The Bear and Barn Burning are two different short stories, but are very much alike in several ways. ... Faulkner also portrays the main characters in each story much the same. ... Faulkner portrays each of the characters in a different light, with different circumstances, but both possess many of the same traits. ... In The Bear, a new more relaxed, slightly wiser tones emerge from pages due to The Boy letting the legend of the bear live on, instead of killing it. ... Faulkner writes each to make them their own story, but the main characters are very much the same, a...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

At first glance, "The Bear" might resemble a short story about hunting. ... Ike soon learned that the hunt was more than bagging bears and deer. ... In "The Bear," his name was Old Ben. This bear symbolizes the wilderness to Faulkner -- huge, intimidating, primitive, untouched by man. ... For Faulkner, Lion is a symbol of man himself -- Old Bear might have successfully intimidated the others with his presence, but the little dog would never budge. ...

• Word Count: 1206
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Faulkner, 250) But is this sin really that wrong. ... He chooses to hunt after a huge mystical bear called, Old Bear, who seems invincible to any normal hunter. ... He knew that he had a destiny to kill this bear to make everything perfect in his own eyes. " maybe he saw already in Grandfather the seed progenitive of the three generations He saw it would take to set at least some of His lowly people free" (Faulkner, 248) If he were to kill this bear in a certain way everything Faulkner considers sin, on the plantation, will be ended. ... After Ike has seen Old Bear a couple of times he fin...

• Word Count: 1391
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There are many ways to deduce the title that William Faulkner has named this story. ... Faulkner established that at the beginning of the story. ... Faulkner salutes Emily in his title by offering her a rose. ... Emily could not bear to see that, so she killed him. This was Faulkner's method of giving Emily a rose. ...

• Word Count: 718
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This is the question William Faulkner explored in his 1929 novel titled "The Sound and the Fury". ... With this disorder in structure in the writing of "The Sound and the Fury", Faulkner paints a picture of total chaos. Faulkner presents man's standardized, ordered method of the measurement of time as an obstacle to his future. ... William Faulkner uses the three brothers in "The Sound and the Fury" to represent another aspect of time. ... Faulkner's three brothers in "The Sound and the Fury" represents the road he believes modern man to be traveling. ...

• Word Count: 2307
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School