Chaos In The Sound And The Fury

In William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” his main character Miss Emily Grierson’s deranged behavior leaves the reader questioning her mental status.

    Analyzing character in a Faulkner novel is like trying to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit because Faulkner's characters often lack ration, speak in telegraphed stream-of-consciousness, and rarely if ever lend themselves to ready analysis.  This is particularly true in As I Lay Dying, a novel of a fragmented and dysfunctional family told through fragmented chapters.  Each character reveals their perspective in different chapters, but the perspectives are true to life in that though they all reveal information

Whatever you do will have an effect in the world. In the story, The Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, Eckels, the main character, experienced this message in a very violent way. Although Eckels was brave, curious and courageous beyond measure, he is far from admirable because his selfish and impulsive behaviors made him unaware of his surroundings in ways that drastically harm others and the world around him. Eckels is not a good character in this story because of his bad acts. Ray Bradbury is basically expressing a good idea in a more elaborated version of it. He is saying that all actions have consequences. Eckels showed that by not thinking before acting and not trusting his power or instincts.

This very distinct sentence demonstrates her frustration with Phil, Ellen portrays this by purposely repeating the statement three times throughout the story, emphasizing Phil’s death. Goodman primarily writes of Phil’s death and disregards incorporating pleasant emotion towards him, but rather demonstrates him as an ordinary, obese man who is chained to his desk at all times. This image of creates a more composed, grim tone which generates less sympathy from the readers on the behalf of Phil. Goodman is also powerful when it comes to incorporating vivid and immense detail into the passage by her diction and use of rhetoric. The section involving Phil’s wife and children add emotion to the passage as well as having an effect which further engages the readers. It shows that his work came first before his family and the family suffered from his choices. This is exemplified when Phil’s “dearly beloved” eldest son goes to his neighbors to ask what his own father

The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson is about boy crazy sixteen year old Sojourner, known as Scotch to her friends becuase of her "hot" dancing, living in Toronto, Canada. She had to switch school a couple times due to bullying and people calling her a "slut", but now her life seemed to be going quite well . Her mother, who is a psycologist, is black, and her strict father is white, which always bothered Scotch because she never felt like she was black nor white. However her brother, who is a rapper, always considered himself as black and is a lot darker than Scotch. Scotch had a skin condition, although it was never serious, where black stuff grew on her skin; she tryed to not let this bother her.

The theme of William Faulkner's Barn Burning is Colonel Sartoris Snope's desire to break away from the oppressive conditions of his family life. He is pulled between his family and his morality. In this essay, I will discuss Sarty's struggle between the two sides of his conflict and the point at which it becomes resolved.

Faulkner proves us that it is impossible to sruggle with one's own heart . The moment when Sarty decided to choose morality over the blood pool and warned the de Spain's revealed his true character. Though this meant the death of his

Loyalty is a powerful force. Oftentimes it blindsides us and causes us to support things we would not normally. Even do things that we despise. William Faulkner’s Barn Burning illustrates just such a case. Presenting a young boy’s progression from a loyal child, to an independent man as a conflict of loyalty and morals. This boy, Sarty, battles his own forming morals versus his father’s decisions, which leads to his development from child to adult. Faulkner writes his characters progression in five stages: blind loyalty, repressed disagreements, open questioning, and attempted reasoning with his father, before finally taking action to contradict his father.

The narrators alternate, showcasing the fluctuating levels of coherence, understanding and emotional strength. The dialect differs from character to character and the language each character uses, varies on level of intensity and subjectivity. Each character’s speech varies from being confessional to teetering on the line of awareness and consciousness. The characters each have their own view on life and on the way Addie Bundren lived her life: through these alternate character’s eyes, we can piece together the bits and pieces of Addie’s life, death and the haulage of her decaying body to Jefferson. The narrative seems to be fragmented however, it also exhibits a type of unity. The story takes place over the course of a few days yet the differing “sub-plots are logically and skillfully interwoven” (Ross 309). Faulkner forces the reader to see the narrative from multiple perspectives.

In John Updike’s “A&P,” and William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” the reader is given a glimpse into the lives of two boys living in much different worlds, but sharing many characteristics. Both Sammy and Sarty experience coming of age in their respective ways. Through the authors’ use of language, imagery, and plot, it becomes clear that Sarty, although younger than Sammy, is more heavily affected by his coming of age experience.

Faulkner uses a system of italics to show Quentin's innermost revelations; as he shifts from thoughts of virginity to more personal memories, the language changes from an encompassing statement about women to a singular elucidation of his sister. The first piece of italic language punctuates a piece of dialogue and immediately implies a question of virginity. "ever do that Have you ever done that In the gray darkness a little light her hands locked about" (93) is the repetition of Caddy's question to Quentin on whether or not he had ever had sex. Faulkner continuously inserts the image of Caddy sitting on the ground next to her brother with her hands locked around her knees. Strangely, the image brings a sense of chastity to a sexually charged situation, as if she is locking her knees together to insist against any improper movements towards the contrary. The next piece of language, again interrupting a friendly dialogue between friends, has "her face looking at the sky the smell of honeysuckle upon her face and throat." Faulkner sets the reader up for the continuation of a few themes be these beginning interceptions into normal conversation. Her face looking up at the sky, the smell of honeysuckle, the gray darkness or light - all these descriptions continue to be executed in the remaining consciousness language. Moreover, honeysuckle and gray light

This bitterness and sarcasm is revealed as strong characteristics of the narrator. Throughout the majority of the story, the narrator continues shows his distaste for any "happy" situation. Much like the hyphenated asides, Carver implements fragmented sentences behind description, to show the narrator pausing for a moment of color commentary.

Chaos had finally calmed into an almost eerie tranquility as Toshizo found himself stepping lightly over scattered debris upon the city streets. With his katana secured at his hip, fingers curled around the tsuka on the off chance any bandits still remained lurking within the shadows as darkness fell. The day had been particularly warm and even as the sun sunk beneath the horizon and clouds took over the night sky, the warmth lingered, the scent of rain heavy in the air as steel blue hues scoured the surroundings for any subtle hint of movement. He had found nothing; found the surrounding businesses and homes empty as he finally reached the end of the battle zone to only turn on his heels when he heard something behind him. It was a moment

In the novel, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner uses three different narrators who have distinct diction and syntax. These three narrators are the brothers of the Compson family. Faulkner develops these characters through their diverse language, such as Benjamin’s inability to make sense of words, Quentin’s educated intellect, and Jason’s anger and hatred. Faulkner clearly uses each of the character’s diction to show unique problems that trouble each of them, as well as difficulties that the brothers share. Each brother has an exclusive problem, such as Benjy’s mental disability and attachment to Caddy, Quentin’s inability to preserve Caddy’s innocence and purity, as well as his sexually attraction to his sister, and fixation with clocks, and Jason’s

The book Don’t get caught lead to the the theme live up to your full potential no matter what obstacles you face . Max wanted to be in the prank pulling club but ,the invite was a prank so he felt he owes it to himself to take action and get payback. Max wanted to start his own chaos club but, he doesn’t know if he should trust the other kids who got invites so ,they all make a pact to trust each other even though they still don’t know if anyone that got an invite set the rest of them up. In the very beginning, the book started off with a early plot twist because I was expecting the book to begin with explaining how the group the “chaos club’’ came to be and describing in detail how they pull pranks and how they pull pranks without getting