Blog 1

"A ROSE FOR EMILY" by William Faulkner was a really good short story. However one thing about the story was it took me a while to understand and somehow grip the purpose of the characters. Something I noticed about the story was it was not in chronological order the story kind of jumps around, for example the story starts off with Emily's death and goes on to talk about when she was alive and then gets into other events and situations such as, events like her fathers death or the incident with the poison, the time her cousins came to visit her and even the fact that she used to give painting lessons was mentioned a few times. The author would talk about her as if it was in the past and then in the next paragraphs be able re-tale an event as if it was happening at that moment and kept the flow of the story understandale. I think "A Rose For Emly" benefited well from this strategy, it gave it more suspense and left the reader asking for more. I feel how a story is told has a big roll in how successful it will be, the reader should be able to feel some kind of emotion rather it be sad, mad, confused, happy, angry, etc. every story has a tone at it is a really incredible author who could be able to relate that to a reader. William Faulkner did a good job at this throughout the story, even at the begin he started talking about Emily's death and her empty house as he goes into discriptive details  so immediately I get sad and curious. Even at times I was a bit confused or shocked but always curious like for example when Faulkner wrote "Because Homer himself had remarked-he liked man and was known that he drank with the youngmen in the Elks club", I was immediately like "wait? huh? let me read this again?" but overall i appreciated the way it all came together at the end. I really liked how the author could say something small are give a hint and its signifiance is so big, like for example when the author kept using repetition about Emily gray hair something so small and then find the hair at the end something so meaningful to the story. The author used good strategies including good discriptive strategies, like in the begging he describes her house and how her voice was "dry and cold". By selecting this approach I feel it set the tone and brought realism to the object are people. A Rose for Emily was a briliant short story and Faulkner did an exceptional job in using these strategies, as a result he acheived a great story.