Jhumpa grew up in a home full of books. ... Regularly when they both come home there isn't much affection. ... The husband states that he knew the baby gender and held it when the baby was dead and she fell asleep. ... But this is your home, not mine.' ... Her childhood memories reflected her home or a home of another Indian family, who maybe had similar family problems. ...
However, the present was expressed through Homer Barron, the new Board of Aldermen, and the new generation of the town's people. ... Because the reader is held back from certain information, the story becomes a suspenseful mystery. ... The body of the missing Homer Barron was found with an indentation on the pillow next to the corpse with an iron-gray hair lying upon it. ... The color rose found at the end of the story in the room where Homer was found represented love. ... She met the same fate as her father, her house, and Homer Barron. ...
By avoiding the chronological order of events of Miss Emily's life, Faulkner enhances the plot and presents two different view of time held by the characters. ... 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. ... Homer Barron ends up being Miss Emily's dried rose. ...
Emily's house, once a grand Victorian home on a prominent street, has fallen into disrepair and sits alone among a row of unsightly gas pumps and garages. ... After Emily's boyfriend, Homer, is believed to have left, we are toldshe had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. ... When she was dating Homer, the people of the town judgmentally gossiped about her as she would drive by. ... Like the last house on the street, Emily stubbornly held her head high. ...
"there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery [takes] less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner"(137). Obviously, the whole process of the lottery will end in two hours so that it even will not delay the villagers to go home for lunch. ... The lottery is held each summer, and the host of the lottery ritual, Mr. ... Each winner of the lottery has to die, and the tomb is only the winner's home after death. ... Summers when the lottery is held each time. ...
What worried me the most was the fact that the Indian man's suicide was a memory that would haunt Nick for the rest of his life---a fact held true by Hemingway, as is seen throughout the entire book. ... The story, Ten Indians, begins with an older Nick than the previous stories, along with a few of his friends coming home after enjoying a fabulous Fourth of July evening. ... Subsequent to his arrival home and the discussion of his day with his father over dinner, Nick's father informs him that he saw his very close friend, Prudence, in the woods with Frank Washburn, another young...
In an interpretation that requires less reliance on the beliefs held to be true in O'Connor's worlds and likely held by the author herself as a Catholic, the grandmother can be seen as responsible not only for the death of her family but even for the creation of The Misfit himself (Renner). ... In this story, a young man purporting to travel the countryside selling Bibles catches the eye of a pessimistic woman with a philosophy doctorate but who otherwise acts much like an adolescent, living at home with her mother in the rural South. ... Hopewell received was a disabled daughter w...
Dame's attitude creates almost a prison in which Rip is held captive. ... Fed up with how he is being treated at home (or the colonists tired of the British rule), Van Winkle decides enough is enough. ... Quite soon after he starts to walk home, a dwarf-like creature dressed in his towns clothing (Dutch clothing) approaches Rip and politely asks him if he could him carry a large keg of liquor to an unknown destination. ...
The environment changes as Lyman journeys off on his summer adventure as he grows up and becomes a man, by going all the way to Chicken, Alaska for the long days, and back on home to North Dakota. ... Then Plunged the piece that held the two together into the water with his brother. ...
"The Prologue" begins in "medias res": "the story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless- It sets the frame of the story on three reference points: the place - the old house - the time - the evening or the night when stories are told - and the cultural setting - the reference to ghost stories. ... The way Douglas had met her is somehow fishy: "I was at Trinity and I found her at home on my coming down the second summer. ...
