This is a compendium of timed responses, vocab stories and other personal written responses by students in Ms. Reyes's English 12 class.
“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” ~William Faulkner
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Post your immediate response to the story. I expect to read a several thoughtful sentences about your response to the story. CITE specific textual detail to support what you're stating.
Honestly I thought this story was kind of weird... So we have this beautiful young rich (?) girl whose father chased away all of her suiters... You would think it was a typical story of a woman... But the. The father does and she keeps his body denying that he died, that could be mistaken for grief yet then she courts this gay man and buys him all of this lavish stuff and shuts herself in her home for 10 YEARS until she gets sick and dies. Then when everyone comes to her funeral they find that her boyfriend/ husband (I don't even know) is dead and has been dead with his room frozen in time except that there was a dent in the pillow next to the dead mans head that had grey hair and a dent, meaning she was sleeping with this man even after he died, no wonder she got sick! I think that maybe since in the passage it had mentioned homer was gay and enjoyed the company of younger males and didn't want to marry that she then trapped him in her house one night and poisoned him with the rat poison so that he would stay with her forever. I still feel that it is kinda creepy and weird that the people of alderman didn't do something about it! She was crazy!
The story was very confusing on what was happening? Emily was in love with Homer and did not want him to leave. She had difficulty showing her feeling or showed them to much. The house was left uncared for for many year after the death of her father. Emily never got over the death of her father and Homer.
Read the story carefully. Once the narrator does his flashback to Emily's life, pay attention to his narration and your confusion should be replaced with surprise or even shock.
As I read the story “A Rose for Emily”, I felt really sad. When I first heard the title of this story I thought it was something romantic but no. It was so depressing that it’s about the life of this woman who was very broken hearted for a long period of time. I can’t imagine life like Miss Emily Grierson had. This story told us that Miss Emily really loved her father through hiding his corpse at their house. At the very beginning she didn’t want to burry his dad’s corpse because her father was the only one that she had. The town people never saw her many years before her sweet heart Homer Barron, came to her life. Since Miss Emily had been broken because of her father’s death, she didn’t want to happen that again and some said she killed him and never saw her again. People said that she died with her sweetheart’s corpse beside her and that showed the love of Miss Grierson. This story showed us about the love, secret, and how people treated women.
The story was disturbing, to say the least. Emily obviously has some sort of mental issue or another... Perhaps the death of her father was kind of scarring for her? Either way, her retrieval of the rat poison proved that the incident that killed her (possibly homosexual) romantic interest was pre-planned after his leaving for the first time. What I wonder is, how did she manage to remove the smell of the dead body? It seems like it'd be pretty difficult to get rid of, especially if it smelled so badly as to bring up neighborly complaints just a couple days before. And she didn't remove the body or anything, so, how? -- Bodine
I thought A Rose For Emily was a really good story. It shows how people have different layers and often motivations that aren't as clear as they seem. At the same time it also show that sometimes people can't let these things go, and they hold to hard to the past they were made from. I thought the very final part about the strand of hair on the bed was the emotional height of the piece, and it shows how this woman's life was more than it seemed, and was had equally depth in secrets that it had in length.
I thought A Rose for Emily was really long. I don't like it when stories are overly long (coughcoughatlasshruggedcough) and it was hard to pay attention to because I was really tired. It seems like just another story about women and love and stuff. Someone should write about something cool and different so that we can read about that instead.
"A Rose for Emily" is a story about a girl and her love for a guy named homer. This story is emotional in the sense that she has a depressing life. In the story her father and lover both die and she dies at the end. The story is kind of confusing at times. The one part of the story that made me happy was when everyone in her community came to her funeral. She was a "Monument" which made this story so important. Over all this story was crazy and I don't think we should read things like this again.
Emily was from a wealthy family, but after her dad died she became very sad and would never leave her house. Then she meet a man who made here happy, they were together for a while until he left. The townspeople saw Emily go buy poison which they thought she was going to use on herself. But then her husband disappeared, and the body wasn't found until Emily died, it was in the upstairs of there house. I thought that this story was weird and I didn't enjoy it.
In the story "A Rose for Emily", Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout the story. I think that many people could relate to the story just by having lost a loved one. I could relate just by losing someone that I was close with. When you lose someone that you love you kind of get the feeling of wanting to just shut everyone out as well as everything, all communication just gone. So that's why in the story "A Rose for Emily" Emily disappeared after her father died.There is a hidden meaning in the story and that is love. Because her father never let anyone come her way he turned them all down. The only man she ever loved was her father that is until she met Homer and everyone thought that she was going to marry him and everyone was beyond anxious to let her live a life and be happy. Then Homer wanted change and Emily did not agree with it and that wound up to her killing him.This shows she doesn’t take change very well. Him leaving set something off in her head all over again. Like her dad dying and leaving her lonely and she wasn’t willing to let Homer leave. The story also shows cultural significance by stating the difference between being black or white. I believe that the only reason they let her stay in that house without paying taxes is because she was white. Because back in the day whites and blacks were not treated equally and if she were black things would've played out differently. Miss Emily sleeping with the dead shows how twisted she truly was, even at the beginning of the story she wouldn’t let them take her father’s decomposed body. The story showed secret and the hidden meaning of love.
The following is more or less what I remember writing on that day before it disappeared into the aether:
I was quite surprised at the rampant sexism. Some amount is to be expected from a piece written in the early 20th century, but this story reflects it to an almost Elizabethan degree. Furthermore, it is starkly contrasted against a reference in the first paragraph of chunk 4 to Homer Barron being homosexual, a notion that turns heads even to this day. On the count of her killing her fiance and locking him in her attic, this story is hardly unique, however I do applaud the clever exposition of that event.
Honestly I thought this story was kind of weird... So we have this beautiful young rich (?) girl whose father chased away all of her suiters... You would think it was a typical story of a woman... But the. The father does and she keeps his body denying that he died, that could be mistaken for grief yet then she courts this gay man and buys him all of this lavish stuff and shuts herself in her home for 10 YEARS until she gets sick and dies. Then when everyone comes to her funeral they find that her boyfriend/ husband (I don't even know) is dead and has been dead with his room frozen in time except that there was a dent in the pillow next to the dead mans head that had grey hair and a dent, meaning she was sleeping with this man even after he died, no wonder she got sick! I think that maybe since in the passage it had mentioned homer was gay and enjoyed the company of younger males and didn't want to marry that she then trapped him in her house one night and poisoned him with the rat poison so that he would stay with her forever. I still feel that it is kinda creepy and weird that the people of alderman didn't do something about it! She was crazy!
ReplyDeleteWhere does it mention that he was gay?
DeleteThe story was very confusing on what was happening? Emily was in love with Homer and did not want him to leave. She had difficulty showing her feeling or showed them to much. The house was left uncared for for many year after the death of her father. Emily never got over the death of her father and Homer.
ReplyDeleteRead the story carefully. Once the narrator does his flashback to Emily's life, pay attention to his narration and your confusion should be replaced with surprise or even shock.
DeleteAs I read the story “A Rose for Emily”, I felt really sad. When I first heard the title of this story I thought it was something romantic but no. It was so depressing that it’s about the life of this woman who was very broken hearted for a long period of time. I can’t imagine life like Miss Emily Grierson had. This story told us that Miss Emily really loved her father through hiding his corpse at their house. At the very beginning she didn’t want to burry his dad’s corpse because her father was the only one that she had. The town people never saw her many years before her sweet heart Homer Barron, came to her life. Since Miss Emily had been broken because of her father’s death, she didn’t want to happen that again and some said she killed him and never saw her again. People said that she died with her sweetheart’s corpse beside her and that showed the love of Miss Grierson. This story showed us about the love, secret, and how people treated women.
ReplyDeleteRemember she still gave painting lessons though...
DeleteThe story was disturbing, to say the least. Emily obviously has some sort of mental issue or another... Perhaps the death of her father was kind of scarring for her? Either way, her retrieval of the rat poison proved that the incident that killed her (possibly homosexual) romantic interest was pre-planned after his leaving for the first time.
ReplyDeleteWhat I wonder is, how did she manage to remove the smell of the dead body? It seems like it'd be pretty difficult to get rid of, especially if it smelled so badly as to bring up neighborly complaints just a couple days before. And she didn't remove the body or anything, so, how? -- Bodine
Remember the lime?
DeleteI thought A Rose For Emily was a really good story. It shows how people have different layers and often motivations that aren't as clear as they seem. At the same time it also show that sometimes people can't let these things go, and they hold to hard to the past they were made from. I thought the very final part about the strand of hair on the bed was the emotional height of the piece, and it shows how this woman's life was more than it seemed, and was had equally depth in secrets that it had in length.
ReplyDeleteI thought A Rose for Emily was really long. I don't like it when stories are overly long (coughcoughatlasshruggedcough) and it was hard to pay attention to because I was really tired. It seems like just another story about women and love and stuff. Someone should write about something cool and different so that we can read about that instead.
ReplyDeleteFinish this "short" story and you might change your mind about its coolness factor.
Delete"A Rose for Emily" is a story about a girl and her love for a guy named homer. This story is emotional in the sense that she has a depressing life. In the story her father and lover both die and she dies at the end. The story is kind of confusing at times. The one part of the story that made me happy was when everyone in her community came to her funeral. She was a "Monument" which made this story so important. Over all this story was crazy and I don't think we should read things like this again.
ReplyDeleteEmily was from a wealthy family, but after her dad died she became very sad and would never leave her house. Then she meet a man who made here happy, they were together for a while until he left. The townspeople saw Emily go buy poison which they thought she was going to use on herself. But then her husband disappeared, and the body wasn't found until Emily died, it was in the upstairs of there house. I thought that this story was weird and I didn't enjoy it.
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ReplyDeleteIn the story "A Rose for Emily", Emily goes through a trial of changes throughout the story. I think that many people could relate to the story just by having lost a loved one. I could relate just by losing someone that I was close with. When you lose someone that you love you kind of get the feeling of wanting to just shut everyone out as well as everything, all communication just gone. So that's why in the story "A Rose for Emily" Emily disappeared after her father died.There is a hidden meaning in the story and that is love. Because her father never let anyone come her way he turned them all down. The only man she ever loved was her father that is until she met Homer and everyone thought that she was going to marry him and everyone was beyond anxious to let her live a life and be happy. Then Homer wanted change and Emily did not agree with it and that wound up to her killing him.This shows she doesn’t take change very well. Him leaving set something off in her head all over again. Like her dad dying and leaving her lonely and she wasn’t willing to let Homer leave. The story also shows cultural significance by stating the difference between being black or white. I believe that the only reason they let her stay in that house without paying taxes is because she was white. Because back in the day whites and blacks were not treated equally and if she were black things would've played out differently. Miss Emily sleeping with the dead shows how twisted she truly was, even at the beginning of the story she wouldn’t let them take her father’s decomposed body. The story showed secret and the hidden meaning of love.
ReplyDeleteThe following is more or less what I remember writing on that day before it disappeared into the aether:
ReplyDeleteI was quite surprised at the rampant sexism. Some amount is to be expected from a piece written in the early 20th century, but this story reflects it to an almost Elizabethan degree. Furthermore, it is starkly contrasted against a reference in the first paragraph of chunk 4 to Homer Barron being homosexual, a notion that turns heads even to this day.
On the count of her killing her fiance and locking him in her attic, this story is hardly unique, however I do applaud the clever exposition of that event.