A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... Franks Hospital for kids or at gas station that her dad had own it was down town. ... That night me and couple of my friends were going to a party and on our way back this couple of school boys started to bang us from the back so I told them I wanted to race to prove that I drove faster and better at the wheel, so we began to race. ... I had no ch...

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He cannot say because he does not know and because he wants the reader to join "us"--"our whole town," "the rising generation," with its garages and its paved roads and its noses in everyone else's business. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we gossip about his characters in a way that we usually reserve for neighbors--failing to truly understand them, revealing only our own phobias and fascinations. ...

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Soon after, the seven women and three men quickly find themselves leaving town with only with an agenda to "pursue whatever pleasures and entertainments the present times would afford while shunning at all costs the lewd practices of their fellow citizens (16-17)." ... Overall, it appears as if Boccaccio is pointing out that as humans we must surrender to our sexual desires. ...

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