Instruction
Essay analyzing William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" short story. Will provide if needed.
The order of pages in your assignment should be: Essay, Works Cited, Annotated Bibliography, Writing Process Summary. Essay should be 3-4 pages not including the Works Cited, Annotated Bibliography or Writing Process Summary
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Sample Questions which could be answered with a thesis sentence:
What is the purpose of telling the story in a non-chronological order?
How does the perspective of the narrator affect our understanding of the main character?
How and why does the main character change during the telling of the stories about her?
(Prototypes of thesis sentences
Miss Emily goes from a young woman who________________________ to a fat, old, reclusive lady who_______________________ because _____________________________.
The narrator of this story is a ___________________, and he tells the story from the perspective of ____________________ which makes us see Miss Emily as ____________________.
Since we start and end the story with details about her death, the stories told about the main character are flashbacks which _____________________________ our understanding of when events happened and makes the reader ______________________________.