In this light we become the gossip, the curious, and the collective, or as I believe the narrator himself. ... Ironically, Emily is buried with the rest of the town's history, laying next to the men who fought in the civil war. ... When she is confronted about paying her taxes, she states "I received a paper, yes", "Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff .". ... When Emily's father died she denied that he passed away until they were on the brink of using force to remove his body from the house. ... If Emily holds onto the past with such a great force, than it is not inconceiva...

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• Grade Level: High School

The young girl gets a second chance at life when a younger man (someone her own age) enters her life and the older man is about to die. ... Welty lets the audience know it is around Easter when Cash says, "I ready for Easter" (520). ... Solomon is dying and Livvie is ready to go out and see what the world has to offer. ... Now I lay eyes on young man and it come to be somebody I know all the time, and been knowing since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and barefoot" (522). ... In the end...

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Thinking of her constantly, even in the most unromantic places like shopping with his aunt in the market place or standing in the small back room where the priest had died, obsesses him. ... Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. ... I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her. ... "I have chafed against the work of school. ...

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Upon completing his story Victor dies. Walton hears a noise in the cabin where Victor lay and goes to investigate. ... Overall I think this book was very well written. ... After his story is told, he dies and the monster stumbles into the cabin where his creator is and confesses to his part of the story thus completing the novel. ... I also found a relationship between the novel and the attitude of people today to be very interesting. ...

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It states at the end "I"m Fish Lamb, for as long as it took to die,...as long as it took to tell you all this". ... An example of this is when Quick lays semi-unconscious from being attacked by a kangaroo and he sees Fish rowing along the river calling out to him. ...

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It states at the end "I"m Fish Lamb, for as long as it took to die,...as long as it took to tell you all this". ... An example of this is when Quick lays semi-unconscious from being attacked by a kangaroo and he sees Fish rowing along the river calling out to him. ...

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It states at the end "I"m Fish Lamb, for as long as it took to die,...as long as it took to tell you all this". ... An example of this is when Quick lays semi-unconscious from being attacked by a kangaroo and he sees Fish rowing along the river calling out to him. ...

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When asked to proofread a copy, Bartleby's outrageous answer is, "I prefer not to". ... At that point, Melville introduces his first bit of comic relief, enlisting the audience's empathy in stating, "To befriend Bartleby; to humour him in his strange wilfulness will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience". ... I never use it myself". ... His though process begins with the suggestion that, allowing Bartleby's occupation of his offices would result in him having to "mason up his remains in the wall", when...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate