Essay About Emilyy Girerson
Páginas: 3 (660 palabras)
Publicado: 2 de diciembre de 2012
I. INTRODUCTION:
* Thesis: Both Emily and Henry experience the common themes of alienation and exile. Emily is purposely out casted from the community by her family’s archaic arrogance at firstbut then by her own arrogance, whilst Henry is out casted due to the post traumatic stress he now suffers from due to the war in Vietnam, and the difficult reintegration he now faces into everydaynormal life. Emily chooses to purposely become a shut in after her father dies and she poisons her lover, and on the other hand Henry refuses to speak or interact with his own family.
II. BODY PARAGRAPH1:
* Opening Sentence: .
* Detail 1: and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man – a young man then – going in and out with a market basket..
* Detail 2: People in ourtown, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were If it hadn't been for ladyWyatt, the town would have found something else to use as evidence against any Grierson claim to nobility. But, sane or not, not one can deny what the Grierson's had. This also gives us one of the fewclues to the history of Emily's family.
* Detail 3: Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town As is often the case in the story,Emily is described here as an object, a thing passed on from generation to generation. When we realize the town is complicit in her downfall, this objectification waxes sinister. .
III. BODY PARAGRAPHII:
* Transition/Opening Sentence:.
* Detail 1: “every time he took a bite of his bread his blood fell onto it until he was eating his own blood mixed in with the food”.
* Detail 2: “Myface is right out in the sun, big and round. But he might have drawn back, because the shadows on his face are deep as holes.
* Detail 3: They are so free, in fact that when they pick up a...
* Thesis: Both Emily and Henry experience the common themes of alienation and exile. Emily is purposely out casted from the community by her family’s archaic arrogance at firstbut then by her own arrogance, whilst Henry is out casted due to the post traumatic stress he now suffers from due to the war in Vietnam, and the difficult reintegration he now faces into everydaynormal life. Emily chooses to purposely become a shut in after her father dies and she poisons her lover, and on the other hand Henry refuses to speak or interact with his own family.
II. BODY PARAGRAPH1:
* Opening Sentence: .
* Detail 1: and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man – a young man then – going in and out with a market basket..
* Detail 2: People in ourtown, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were If it hadn't been for ladyWyatt, the town would have found something else to use as evidence against any Grierson claim to nobility. But, sane or not, not one can deny what the Grierson's had. This also gives us one of the fewclues to the history of Emily's family.
* Detail 3: Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town As is often the case in the story,Emily is described here as an object, a thing passed on from generation to generation. When we realize the town is complicit in her downfall, this objectification waxes sinister. .
III. BODY PARAGRAPHII:
* Transition/Opening Sentence:.
* Detail 1: “every time he took a bite of his bread his blood fell onto it until he was eating his own blood mixed in with the food”.
* Detail 2: “Myface is right out in the sun, big and round. But he might have drawn back, because the shadows on his face are deep as holes.
* Detail 3: They are so free, in fact that when they pick up a...
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