Barn Burning by William Faulkner
The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish-this, the cheese which he knew he smelled and the hermetic meat which his intestines believed he smelled coming in intermittent gusts momen. tary and brief between the other constant one, the smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood. fie could not see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father and his father's enemy (our en- he thought in that despair; ourn! mine and hisn both! He's my father!) stood, but he could hear them, the two of them that is, because his father had said no word yet:
"But what proof have you, Mr. Harris?"
"I told you. The hog got into my corn. I caught it up and sent it back to him, I le had no fence that would hold it. I told him so, warned him. The next time I put the hog in my pen. When he came to get it I gave him enough wire to patch tip his pen. The next time I put the hog up and kept it. I rode down to his house and saw the wire I gave him still rolled on to the spool in his yard. I told him he could have the hog when he paid me a dollar pound fee.' That evening a came with the dollar and got the hog. He was a strange . He said, 'He say to tell you wood and hay kin burn.' I said, 'What?' 'That whut he say to tell you,' the aid. 'Wood and hay kin burn.' That night my barn burned. I got the stock out but I lost the barn."
"Where is the ? Have you got him?"
"He was a strange , I tell you. I don't know what became of him."
But that's not proof. Don't you see that's not proof?"
"Get that boy up here. He knows." For a moment the boy thought too that the man meant his older brother until Harris said, "Not him. The little one. The boy." and, crouching, small for his age, small and wiry like his father, in patched and faded jeans even too small for him, with straight, uncombed, brown hair and eyes gray and wild as storm scud, he saw the men between himself and the table part and become a lane of grim faces, at the end of which he saw the justice, a shabby, collarless, graying man in spectacles, beckoning him, he felt no floor under his bare feet; he seemed to walk beneath the palpable weight of the grim turning faces. His father, stiff in his black Sunday coat donned not for the trial but for the moving, did not even look at him, He aims for me to lie, he thought, again with that frantic grief and despair. And I will have to do hit.
'What's your name, boy?" the Justice said.
"Colonel Sartoris Snopes," the boy whispered.
"Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Co.
1 Barn Burning by William Faulkner The store in.docxtarifarmarie
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Barn Burning
by William Faulkner
The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on
his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he
could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose
labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils
and the silver curve of fish - this, the cheese which he knew he smelled and the hermetic meat which his
intestines believed he smelled coming in intermittent gusts momentary and brief between the other
constant one, the smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce
pull of blood. He could not see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father and his father's
enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! mine and hisn both! He's my father!) stood, but he
could hear them, the two of them that is, because his father had said no word yet:
"But what proof have you, Mr. Harris?"
"I told you. The hog got into my corn. I caught it up and sent it back to him. He had no fence that would
hold it. I told him so, warned him. The next time I put the hog in my pen. When he came to get it I gave
him enough wire to patch up his pen. The next time I put the hog up and kept it. I rode down to his house
and saw the wire I gave him still rolled on to the spool in his yard. I told him he could have the hog when
he paid me a dollar pound fee. That evening a nigger came with the dollar and got the hog. He was a
strange nigger. He said, 'He say to tell you wood and hay kin burn.' I said, 'What?' 'That whut he say to
tell you,' the nigger said. 'Wood and hay kin burn.' That night my barn burned. I got the stock out but I lost
the barn."
"Where is the nigger? Have you got him?"
"He was a strange nigger, I tell you. I don't know what became of him."
"But that's not proof. Don't you see that's not proof?"
"Get that boy up here. He knows." For a moment the boy thought too that the man meant his older brother
until Harris said, "Not him. The little one. The boy," and, crouching, small for his age, small and wiry like
his father, in patched and faded jeans even too small for him, with straight, uncombed, brown hair and
eyes gray and wild as storm scud, he saw the men between himself and the table part and become a lane
of grim faces, at the end of which he saw the justice, a shabby, collarless, graying man in spectacles,
beckoning him. He felt no floor under his bare feet; he seemed to walk beneath the palpable weight of the
grim turning faces. His father, stiff in his black Sunday coat donned not for the trial but for the moving, did
not even look at him. He aims for me to lie, he thought, again with that frantic grief and despair. And I will
have to do hit.
"What's your name, boy?" the justice said.
"Colonel Sartoris Snopes,".
The document is a poem by Banjo Paterson titled "A Bush Christening". It describes a settler family living in the Australian bush who have not had their young son christened. When a preacher arrives to perform the christening, the son is afraid of being branded like cattle. He hides in a log to avoid it. The preacher and father try to coax him out, and when he emerges quickly, the preacher names him "Maginnis" on the spot without knowing his real name. The poem humorously depicts a makeshift bush christening.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
Beauty agrees to stay with the Beast to save her merchant father's life after he picks a rose for her and angers the Beast. She finds the Beast's enchanted castle well-appointed with everything she could need for comfort and amusement. Though frightened of the Beast, Beauty retains her courage and virtue, hoping her sacrifice will allow her father to live and return home safely.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
Beauty's merchant father loses his fortune and moves his family to a small country house. While in the forest gathering roses for Beauty, the merchant becomes lost and takes shelter in a mysterious palace belonging to a terrifying Beast. The Beast agrees to spare the merchant's life if one of his daughters will return to live with the Beast instead, and the selfless Beauty volunteers to save her father.
The narrator is walking home on a cold night through their neighborhood. They pass by a group of drunk white people and feel nervous, remembering past incidents of racism and violence. When they see a police officer, they feel anxious, knowing that as a black person they are at higher risk of police brutality. At the store, an employee stares at them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. The narrator experiences intrusive thoughts and memories of racism on their journey, feeling burdened by their race and otherness. They try to relax with food and media when they get home but continue replaying difficult experiences of racism in their mind.
This document provides a summary of the translator's preface to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It describes Dostoyevsky's background, including that he came from a poor but deeply religious family. It details how he was arrested in 1849 for being part of a radical thinking group, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted at the last moment, and then spent four years in prison and penal servitude in Siberia. It also notes he suffered from epilepsy for the rest of his life after this ordeal. The summary provides context about Dostoyevsky's life experiences that shaped his writing.
1 Barn Burning by William Faulkner The store in.docxtarifarmarie
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Barn Burning
by William Faulkner
The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on
his nail keg at the back of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he
could see the ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose
labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils
and the silver curve of fish - this, the cheese which he knew he smelled and the hermetic meat which his
intestines believed he smelled coming in intermittent gusts momentary and brief between the other
constant one, the smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce
pull of blood. He could not see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father and his father's
enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! mine and hisn both! He's my father!) stood, but he
could hear them, the two of them that is, because his father had said no word yet:
"But what proof have you, Mr. Harris?"
"I told you. The hog got into my corn. I caught it up and sent it back to him. He had no fence that would
hold it. I told him so, warned him. The next time I put the hog in my pen. When he came to get it I gave
him enough wire to patch up his pen. The next time I put the hog up and kept it. I rode down to his house
and saw the wire I gave him still rolled on to the spool in his yard. I told him he could have the hog when
he paid me a dollar pound fee. That evening a nigger came with the dollar and got the hog. He was a
strange nigger. He said, 'He say to tell you wood and hay kin burn.' I said, 'What?' 'That whut he say to
tell you,' the nigger said. 'Wood and hay kin burn.' That night my barn burned. I got the stock out but I lost
the barn."
"Where is the nigger? Have you got him?"
"He was a strange nigger, I tell you. I don't know what became of him."
"But that's not proof. Don't you see that's not proof?"
"Get that boy up here. He knows." For a moment the boy thought too that the man meant his older brother
until Harris said, "Not him. The little one. The boy," and, crouching, small for his age, small and wiry like
his father, in patched and faded jeans even too small for him, with straight, uncombed, brown hair and
eyes gray and wild as storm scud, he saw the men between himself and the table part and become a lane
of grim faces, at the end of which he saw the justice, a shabby, collarless, graying man in spectacles,
beckoning him. He felt no floor under his bare feet; he seemed to walk beneath the palpable weight of the
grim turning faces. His father, stiff in his black Sunday coat donned not for the trial but for the moving, did
not even look at him. He aims for me to lie, he thought, again with that frantic grief and despair. And I will
have to do hit.
"What's your name, boy?" the justice said.
"Colonel Sartoris Snopes,".
The document is a poem by Banjo Paterson titled "A Bush Christening". It describes a settler family living in the Australian bush who have not had their young son christened. When a preacher arrives to perform the christening, the son is afraid of being branded like cattle. He hides in a log to avoid it. The preacher and father try to coax him out, and when he emerges quickly, the preacher names him "Maginnis" on the spot without knowing his real name. The poem humorously depicts a makeshift bush christening.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
Beauty agrees to stay with the Beast to save her merchant father's life after he picks a rose for her and angers the Beast. She finds the Beast's enchanted castle well-appointed with everything she could need for comfort and amusement. Though frightened of the Beast, Beauty retains her courage and virtue, hoping her sacrifice will allow her father to live and return home safely.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
Beauty's merchant father loses his fortune and moves his family to a small country house. While in the forest gathering roses for Beauty, the merchant becomes lost and takes shelter in a mysterious palace belonging to a terrifying Beast. The Beast agrees to spare the merchant's life if one of his daughters will return to live with the Beast instead, and the selfless Beauty volunteers to save her father.
The narrator is walking home on a cold night through their neighborhood. They pass by a group of drunk white people and feel nervous, remembering past incidents of racism and violence. When they see a police officer, they feel anxious, knowing that as a black person they are at higher risk of police brutality. At the store, an employee stares at them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. The narrator experiences intrusive thoughts and memories of racism on their journey, feeling burdened by their race and otherness. They try to relax with food and media when they get home but continue replaying difficult experiences of racism in their mind.
This document provides a summary of the translator's preface to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It describes Dostoyevsky's background, including that he came from a poor but deeply religious family. It details how he was arrested in 1849 for being part of a radical thinking group, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted at the last moment, and then spent four years in prison and penal servitude in Siberia. It also notes he suffered from epilepsy for the rest of his life after this ordeal. The summary provides context about Dostoyevsky's life experiences that shaped his writing.
This document provides background information on the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. It introduces the protagonist Charles Bovary and describes his upbringing in a rural Norman village as the son of a retired surgeon. It details Charles' early education, from his first day at school where he was mocked for his name, to being sent to boarding school in Rouen by his parents so that he could study medicine. The summary establishes Charles Bovary as the main character who the novel will explore.
This document is an excerpt from the short story "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker. It describes the following:
The narrator is on a carriage ride driven by Johann when they come across a small, winding side road that the narrator wants to explore. Johann is extremely reluctant and refuses, becoming increasingly frightened. He believes that tonight is the night of Walpurgis, when supernatural things can happen. Despite Johann's protests and obvious fear, the narrator insists on taking the side road alone to investigate while Johann returns home.
Astounding Stories of Super Science, April, 1930, by variousChuck Thompson
http://www.gloucestercounty-va.com Its very old school but then again, what have we lost over time? Its a bit of history mixed with science and science fiction. An old pulp magazine to bring up some new and interesting questions.
The document is a summary of the beginning of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". It describes Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, and his friend Mr. Enfield taking their weekly walk, during which Mr. Enfield tells Mr. Utterson a strange story about a man who trampled a young girl and then paid to keep the incident quiet, obtaining the money from a cellar accessed through a mysterious door. The document provides context and setup for the novella's plot.
This summary provides an overview of the document in 3 sentences:
Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, is told a strange story by his acquaintance Mr. Enfield about encountering a man named Mr. Hyde trampling on a young girl. Utterson is disturbed to learn that Dr. Jekyll has made Hyde the sole beneficiary in his will. The document raises troubling questions for Utterson about Hyde and Jekyll, so he decides to visit his friend, the doctor Lanyon, to inquire further.
1) The chapter describes an unnamed Union army camped near a river during the American Civil War, as winter turns to spring. Rumors spread that the army will soon advance.
2) A soldier excitedly shares a rumor he heard that the army will march the next day. This sparks debates among the other soldiers about the army's plans.
3) The chapter introduces a young private who has recently enlisted. He is contemplating the possibility of experiencing battle for the first time and wonders if he will run from the fight or stand his ground.
This summary provides an overview of the document in 3 sentences:
The document describes the narrator's father's occupation as a silver fox farmer in rural Canada, including how he raised and killed the foxes for their pelts. It also discusses the narrator's role in helping care for the foxes by carrying water to their pens and cutting grass between the pens. The foxes were fed horsemeat from old horses that were no longer useful on farms.
OlallaRobert Louis StevensonNow, said the doctor, my part.docxcherishwinsland
Olalla
Robert Louis Stevenson
'Now,' said the doctor, 'my part is done, and, I may say, with some vanity, well done. It remains only to get you out of this cold and poisonous city, and to give you two months of a pure air and an easy conscience. The last is your affair. To the first I think I can help you. It fells indeed rather oddly; it was but the other day the Padre came in from the country; and as he and I are old friends, although of contrary professions, he applied to me in a matter of distress among some of his parishioners. This was a family - but you are ignorant of Spain, and even the names of our grandees are hardly known to you; suffice it, then, that they were once great people, and are now fallen to the brink of destitution. Nothing now belongs to them but the residencia, and certain leagues of desert mountain, in the greater part of which not even a goat could support life. But the house is a fine old place, and stands at a great height among the hills, and most salubriously; and I had no sooner heard my friend's tale, than I remembered you. I told him I had a wounded officer, wounded in the good cause, who was now able to make a change; and I proposed that his friends should take you for a lodger. Instantly the Padre's face grew dark, as I had maliciously foreseen it would. It was out of the question, he said. Then let them starve, said I, for I have no sympathy with tatterdemalion pride. There-upon we separated, not very content with one another; but yesterday, to my wonder, the Padre returned and made a submission: the difficulty, he said, he had found upon enquiry to be less than he had feared; or, in other words, these proud people had put their pride in their pocket. I closed with the offer; and, subject to your approval, I have taken rooms for you in the residencia. The air of these mountains will renew your
blood; and the quiet in which you will there live is worth all the medicines in the world.'
'Doctor,' said I, 'you have been throughout my good angel, and your advice is a command. But tell me, if you please, something of the family with which I am to reside.'
'I am coming to that,' replied my friend; 'and, indeed, there is a difficulty in the way. These beggars are, as I have said, of very high descent and swollen with the most baseless vanity; they have lived for some generations in a growing isolation, drawing away, on either hand, from the rich who had now become too high for them, and from the poor, whom they still regarded as too low; and even to-day, when poverty forces them to unfasten their door to a guest, they cannot do so without a most ungracious stipulation. You are to remain, they say, a stranger; they will give you attendance, but they refuse from the first the idea of the smallest intimacy.'
I will not deny that I was piqued, and perhaps the feeling strengthened my desire to go, for I was confident that I could break down that barrier if I desired. 'There is nothing offensive .
1 Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the eartMargaritoWhitt221
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Chapter 1
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the
hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble
with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs
of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's
feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red,
eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.
Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt. He came flying back
from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend,
who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the
orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.
"We're goin' t' move t'morrah--sure," he said pompously to a group in the company street. "We're goin'
'way up the river, cut across, an' come around in behint 'em."
To his attentive audience he drew a loud and elaborate plan of a very brilliant campaign. When he had
finished, the blue-clothed men scattered into small arguing groups between the rows of squat brown huts.
A negro teamster who had been dancing upon a cracker box with the hilarious encouragement of twoscore
soldiers was deserted. He sat mournfully down. Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.
"It's a lie! that's all it is--a thunderin' lie!" said another private loudly. His smooth face was flushed,
and his hands were thrust sulkily into his trouser's pockets. He took the matter as an affront to him. "I don't
believe the derned old army's ever going to move. We're set. I've got ready to move eight times in the last
two weeks, and we ain't moved yet."
The tall soldier felt called upon to defend the truth of a rumor he himself had introduced. He and the
loud one came near to fighting over it.
A corporal began to swear before the assemblage. He had just put a costly board floor in his house,
he said. During the early spring he had refrained from adding extensively to the comfort of his environment
because he had felt that the army might start on the march at any moment. Of late, however, he had been
impressed that they were in a sort of eternal camp.
Many of the men engaged in a spirited debate. One outlined in a peculiarly lucid manner all the plans
of the commanding general. He was opposed by men who advocated that there were other plans of
campaign. They clamored at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention. Meanwhile,
the soldier who had fetched the rumor bustled about with much importance. He was continually assailed by
questions.
"What's up, Jim?"
"Th'army's goin' t' move."
"Ah, what y ...
THESIS BLUEPRINTIn Résumé, Dorothy Parker subverts the ideGrazynaBroyles24
In this document, a passage from the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is summarized. The passage describes Mr. Hale and the county attorney visiting the Wright home after John Wright is found dead. Upon arrival, they find Mrs. Wright calmly pleating her apron and stating that her husband is dead from a rope around his neck. She claims not to know who killed him and that she slept through the incident, though the men find her story implausible. The passage sets up mysteries around John Wright's death and Mrs. Wright's strange demeanor.
Crime and punishment Fédor Mikhaïlovitch DostoïevskiKhaled Leehom
This document is the first chapter of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It introduces the main character, Raskolnikov, a poor former student living in St. Petersburg. On a hot summer evening, he walks nervously through the crowded streets towards an old pawnbroker's apartment. He is deeply in debt and avoids his landlady. Arriving at the apartment, he interacts nervously with the suspicious old pawnbroker woman and pawns his father's old watch for a small sum of money. He inquires casually about the old woman's sister before leaving.
The document is an excerpt from the novel "The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It introduces the main character, Edward Malone, and establishes the backstory of how he came to embark on an adventure. In the summary:
Malone is in love with Gladys and wants to prove himself worthy of her by doing something heroic. However, she is interested in men who have accomplished great deeds. At work, Malone's boss suggests exposing a fraud as a story, giving Malone the opportunity to embark on an adventure and potentially impress Gladys.
1010 Essay Short Story Analysis Comparison Stories include.docxhyacinthshackley2629
1010 Essay
Short Story Analysis/ Comparison
Stories include:
1. “The Story of an Hour”-Chopin
3. “Bluebeard”-Perrault
*You must use and cite at least 4 outside sources (you don’t have to include story
Analysis of story(s)
Film versions
Other versions of story (compare)
*Length- 4-6 pgs+ works cited page
Analyze any one of the stories by breaking it into and analyzing all of its elements.
In final folder:
a. Outline
b. Rough Drafts/ Peer
c. Final Draft
Blue Beard
Charles Perrault
There was once a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate,
embroidered furniture, and coaches gilded all over with gold. But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue
beard, which made him so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran away from him.
One of his neighbors, a lady of quality, had two daughters who were perfect beauties. He desired of her
one of them in marriage, leaving to her choice which of the two she would bestow on him. Neither of them
would have him, and they sent him backwards and forwards from one to the other, not being able to bear
the thoughts of marrying a man who had a blue beard. Adding to their disgust and aversion was the fact
that he already had been married to several wives, and nobody knew what had become of them.
Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with their mother and three or four ladies of their
acquaintance, with other young people of the neighborhood, to one of his country houses, where they
stayed a whole week.
The time was filled with parties, hunting, fishing, dancing, mirth, and feasting. Nobody went to bed, but all
passed the night in rallying and joking with each other. In short, everything succeeded so well that the
youngest daughter began to think that the man's beard was not so very blue after all, and that he was a
mighty civil gentleman.
As soon as they returned home, the marriage was concluded. About a month afterwards, Blue Beard told
his wife that he was obliged to take a country journey for six weeks at least, about affairs of very great
consequence. He desired her to divert herself in his absence, to send for her friends and acquaintances, to
take them into the country, if she pleased, and to make good cheer wherever she was.
"Here," said he," are the keys to the two great wardrobes, wherein I have my best furniture. These are to
my silver and gold plate, which is not everyday in use. These open my strongboxes, which hold my money,
both gold and silver; these my caskets of jewels. And this is the master key to all my apartments. But as for
this little one here, it is the key to the closet at the end of the great hall on the ground floor. Open them all;
go into each and every one of them, except that little closet, which I forbid you, and forbid it in such a
manner that, if you happen to open it, you may expect my just anger and resentment."
She promised to observe, very exactly, .
The Rattrap summary is about a man who is a peddler. He has a pessimistic attitude towards the world. The peddler has not always been like this and was a fine man before. However, due to misfortune, he now resorts to selling rattraps, begging and even stealing to survive. Moreover, he also views the world as a big rat trap. He believes that much similar to the cheese we put for mice, the world offers us materialistic things to lure us. So, when we fall for these things, it traps us and takes everything away from us. In this story, a young generous woman takes in the rattrap seller. Thus, the generosity and kindness she shows changes his pessimistic take on life. This story teaches us about the essential human goodness we all must possess.
George R. R. Martin - Ice & Fire 0.5 - Three Tales of Dunk & Egg.pdfVijaySandeep5
This document contains a summary of three novellas by George R.R. Martin titled "Three Tales of Dunk & Egg" set 90 years before "A Game of Thrones". It also includes the full text of the first story "The Hedge Knight". The summary describes how the novellas follow the adventures of Dunk and Egg and have not been published together. The full story introduces Dunk, a hedge knight, as he buries his former master and considers his options. He decides to enter a tournament at Ashford and has an encounter at an inn with a strange lord and a boy who wants to be his squire.
This summarizes the first section of the document:
[1] The document is an excerpt from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, published in 1912. It introduces the characters of the narrator and Lady Mirdath the Beautiful, who meet by chance one evening.
[2] They discover they both share knowledge of the same imaginary dream lands. They spend the evening wandering and discussing their shared fantasies.
[3] They become lost track of time in their conversation. Lady Mirdath's guardian sends out a search party when they do not return, but they are found unharmed and in each other's company. This beginning the narrator's love for Lady Mirdath.
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH TO THE NEW JERUSALEM.docxJulian Scutts
This document contains a lengthy poem divided into multiple sections with themes around history, humanity, suffering, and redemption. The poem uses metaphorical language and biblical references to explore complex ideas. It shifts between different voices and time periods to draw parallels between the past and present. The overall message seems to emphasize the cyclical nature of human conflict and hope for a better future if people can learn from the mistakes of history.
Bluestone Company had three intangible assets at the end of 2014 (en.docxlascellesjaimie
Bluestone Company had three intangible assets at the end of 2014 (end of the accounting year):
a.
A patent purchased from Miller Co. on January 1, 2014, for a cash cost of $4,000. When purchased, the patent had an estimated life of ten years.
b.
A trademark was registered with the federal government for $11,000. Management estimated that the trademark could be worth as much as $260,000 because it has an indefinite life.
c.
Computer licensing rights were purchased on January 1, 2014, for $36,000. The rights are expected to have a four-year useful life to the company.
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BIOLOGY 103 Spring 2015FINAL EXAMINATIONPlease copy and paste th.docxlascellesjaimie
BIOLOGY 103 Spring 2015
FINAL EXAMINATION
Please copy and paste the final examination into a Word file. Complete it in this form (do not make any structural changes!) and submit it as an attachment into your
Assignment Folder.
Do not forget to put your name on top of the exam!
The absolute deadline for submission is
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I. Multiple choice questions. Please
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1. In October of 2003, a raging wildfire swept through the mountain ecosystems in Southern California, burning everything in its path to the ground and driving away all of the animals. In order for the mountain ecosystem to establish itself, which member of the food web has to return first?
Deer
Coyotes
Snake
Grasses
2. Suppose you conduct an experiment which simulates glacial recession over time. What is the dependent variable in this experiment?
Glacial mass
Sunlight
The season
Time
3. How many dependent variables can be tested during any single experiment?
4
3
2
1
4. The effectiveness of a medication containing growth hormones is tested on a group of young male rabbits 3 weeks of age. The best control group would be:
Any group of rabbits
A group of male rabbits, three weeks old, not given the medication
A group of female rabbits, three weeks old, not given the medication
A mixed group of male/female rabbits, three weeks old, not given the medication
No control is required; just measure whether the rabbits grew
5. When writing a lab report or a research paper, you need to show what the difference is between the “Results” section and the ”Discussion” section. Which of the following is correct?
The
Discussion
analyzes data, whereas the
Results
analyzes the procedure.
The
Discussion
analyzes data, whereas the
Results
displays data.
The
Discussion
displays data, whereas the
Results
analyzes the Discussion.
The
Discussion
displays the procedure, whereas the
Results
analyzes the data.
6. What characteristic of carbon makes it a good backbone for creating diverse and durable molecules?
Carbon is a large atom
Carbon forms four covalent bonds
Carbon forms hydrogen bonds
All of the above
7. Which of the following reactions or pathways is catabolic?
Converting glucose to carbon dioxide and water (cellular respiration)
Making starch from many glucose monomers
Photosynthesis, which builds glucose from carbon dioxide using energy from light
Making ATP from ADP and phosphate
8. One human disease is caused by a change in the DNA from GAA to GUA. This change is an example of:
Crossing-over
A meiosis error
A mitosis error
A mutation
9. What subatomic particles are found in the nucleus?
Elecctrons
Protons
Neutrons
Protons and neutrons
Protons and electrons
10. Which of the following describes H
2
0, NaCl, CO
2
, and HCl?
All are acids
All are gases
All .
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YOUR NAME:
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Coyotes
Snake
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7.
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in-text citations
AND your list of at least
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Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention:
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Bios of 20 Important WomenStudents will be required to complete bi.docxlascellesjaimie
Bios of 20 Important Women
Students will be required to complete bios of 20 important women contributing to American society to the Civil War. The bios should be no more than 8 sentences for each woman. You must include some of the following information about the topic:
a.
birthday and birthplace
education
family data
important events in her life
important influences in her life
historical contributions that she made or is making
awards or achievements
books, publications… by her
other data you deem important to note about her
you must use at least three sources for each bio; only one can be an electronic source.
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Biomedical Essay: 5 sources minimum. MLA Format. Classical Argument 4-5 Typed Pgs., 1500 words min. Sources Highlighted in accordance with syllabus. Write an essay which supports your position concerning a debatable topic related to any aspect of biomedical phenomena in any social or historical context. Your essay must demonstrate classical argument form—i.e. include introduction/thesis, arguments, opposing views, refutations, and conclusion.
Topics Examples, (Do not use these topics) Create your own.
*Bio-Medical Focus: Facts, Ethics, and Corporate/Media Dynamics
Airport Searches and Scanners (Rapiscan & radiation)
*Vaccines: Pro and Con / Government Reimbursement
*GMO foods – Pro and Con
*Mental Telepathy
*Remote Viewing
*Guardasil
*Designer Babies
*Psychics
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MLA FORMAT SUMMARY: A METHOD OF DOCUMENTING SOURCES
(See also Guide in Textbook, pgs. 640-655 or
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/
)
(A Complete MLA Format Essay can be viewed at
http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/hacker-Daly-MLA.pdf
)
I IN-TEXT CITATIONS:
References in a paragraph to the source material from which research data is taken.
*In-Text citations can be in the midst of a sentence itself, or in a parenthetical reference at the end of the
sentence.
* In-text citations consist of the author’s last name (if available); if not--use
title (if available); if not—use
website from which the source is taken [in this order].
*If in-text citation lists title or website, short form should be used in in-text citation; and complete form in
Works Cited.
*List page number—only if it existed in the original source.
II.
WORKS CITED LIST:
A complete list of all source actually USED in the essay.
*Includes complete bibliographical information for each source
* Sources are listed in alphabetical order
* The Works Cited List is a separate page at the end of the essay (See textbook page 662 and examples below.
Works Cited List MUST follow these formats)
*Internet sources must include the date
you
looked at the source.
*Do not number your Works Cited List
III. NOTES
1. ALL OF THESE
MUST
BE DOCUMENTED IN MLA FORMAT:
*
Direct Quotes
: exact words from the original source
--in quotation marks or a long quote format
*
Paraphrases
: ideas taken from the original source, but the wording
is changed—no quotation marks.
*
Summaries:
Shortened version of original, but the wording is changed—no quotation marks
2. In a paragraph, the parenthetical reference goes at the end of the sentence BEFORE the period.
3.
LONG QUOTES
: (Exact words of the original author—which last more than lines.
Special rules
:
a) indent
10 spaces;
b) left justify; c) no quote marks; d) the parenthetical reference comes AFTER the period at the end of the long
quote.
SEE FOLLOWING PAGES FOR EXAMPLES
IV. EXAMPLES OF MLA CITATIONS WITH CORRESPONDING
WORKS CITED
LIST ENTRIES—
1. Direct Quote from Internet Source
--with parenthetical in-text citation
--note that .
Biology 110 Online Evolution lab Student Directions 1. Go to htt.docxlascellesjaimie
Biology 110 Online Evolution lab Student Directions: 1. Go to http://www.sasinschool.com/login 2. In the Quick Launch box (will have QL# inside) on the...
Biology 110 Online Evolution lab
Student Directions:
1.
Go to
http://www.sasinschool.com/login
2.
In the Quick Launch box (will have QL# inside) on the upper right corner of the screen, enter: 4
3.
When prompted by the popup enter the username: located5questions (it’s weird, but no password is needed with this login).
If you have pop-ups blocked you will have to allow pop-ups from SAS Curriculum (when I work in Chrome, a little red x appears at the end of the URL address box—I click on the x and am allowed the option of “always allow pop-ups from SAS Curriculum…). The program
requires Java
and maybe additional add-ons. Be sure to “allow” these in order to get the simulation to run.
4.
Clicking on the “Getting Started” tab will provide the information provided below. Be sure to read through this information prior to beginning.
5.
Clicking on the “data and observations” tab will provide the same information that I’ve included below. No need to print again. You will need to follow the directions and answer these questions as you go through the simulation.
6.
Clicking on the “analysis and conclusions” will also provide the same information as I’ve provided below after the “data and observations section”. Type your answers in as you proceed through this section.
7.
Ready to begin? Read the “About the Topic” section and proceed through the rest of the lab. Once you have completed each section, don’t forget to save the document with your name in the file name. Submit on Moodle!
About the Topic
Sources Of Genetic Variability
Genetic variations provide the raw material for
evolution
. These variations come from two sources:1.
mutations
that produce different
alleles
, and 2. sexual reproduction, in which alleles from parents segregate and recombine in offspring.
Evolution
Biological evolution involves genetic changes in a group of organisms. These changes occur on two levels:
macroevolution
(the grand scale), and
microevolution
(the small scale). On the "macro" scale of evolution, different species arise, live for a while, and then pass into extinction as new species arise to replace them (over thousands or millions of years). Microevolution involves small-scale changes within a single species. This occurs as populations respond to their own unique circumstances over a period of a few generations. Given enough time, microevolution can lead to macroevolution.
Populations Evolve, Not Individuals
Because an individual's genes are determined at conception, individuals can't evolve. But individuals are part of a
population
that may change over time. Some individuals have
genotypes
that are preferentially suited for survival. These individuals tend to produce more offspring. Thus, a larger proportion of their alleles is passed down to succeeding generations. Over time, the pr.
Biblical Worldview Essay InstructionsRationale for the Biblical .docxlascellesjaimie
Biblical Worldview Essay Instructions
Rationale for the Biblical Worldview Essay
Every person has a worldview whether he realizes it or not. What is a worldview? James W. Sire defines a worldview as:
[A] commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) that we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.
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Stated more succinctly, "…[A] worldview is simply the total set of beliefs that a person has about the biggest questions in life." F. Leroy Forlines describes such questions as the "inescapable questions of life." Life's inescapable questions include the following: "Is there a God? If so, what is He like? How can I know Him? Who am I? Where am I? How can I tell right from wrong? Is there life after death? What should I and what can I do about guilt? How can I deal with my inner pain?" Life's biggest, inescapable questions relate to whether there is a God, human origins, identity, purpose, and the hereafter, just to mention a few.
Satisfying answers to the "inescapable questions of life" are provided by the Holy Scriptures. The Holy Scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, form the starting point and foundation for the biblical worldview. More specifically related to our purposes, the apostle Paul reflects several components of the biblical worldview in his letter to the Romans.
The apostle Paul authored Romans toward the end of his third missionary journey, about 57 A.D. He addressed this letter specifically to the Christians in Rome. At the time the church in Rome consisted of Jewish and Gentile believers, with Gentile Christians in the majority. Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome in order to address specific concerns and challenges they were facing. While Romans was an occasional letter (not a systematic theology), Paul presents the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a very systematic fashion. The Gospel is actually the overarching theme of Romans as Paul spells this out in his programmatic statement in 1:16–17. As the systematic presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Romans is foundational to the biblical/Christian worldview.
Recognizing that Romans is not a systematic theology and does not contain all the essential truths that are relevant to a worldview per se, the apostle Paul articulates truths that are foundational to the biblical worldview. In Romans 1–8, Paul addresses certain components of a worldview that relate to the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and culture.
In a 750–1000-word essay, describe what Romans 1–8 teaches regarding (1)the natural world, (2)human identity,(3) human relationships, and (4) culture. Furthermore, (5)explain how this teaching of these topics affects your worldview. Make sure that you addr.
Biblical passaes 2 Samuel 13 1-22 looking for similarity between tw.docxlascellesjaimie
This document asks the reader to analyze two biblical passages in 2 Samuel about a sexual issue, read two commentaries on it, and write a 2 page reflection answering questions about what caught their attention, why, and their reaction and thoughts on reading the passages and commentaries.
Benefits of Nongoverning Volunteer Orientation and TrainingBoard G.docxlascellesjaimie
Benefits of Nongoverning Volunteer Orientation and Training
Board Governance & Volunteer Management
APA Format 1-3 pages Friday by 10pm New York Time 2-3 References
Even when volunteers come to an organization with a name that is recognized, community connections, and years of professional expertise and experience, they still require an understanding of the background, purpose, and procedures of the specific organization to which they plan to dedicate their time. Volunteer orientation serves this purpose. Volunteer training goes further. Training introduces and teaches the specific skills and expertise needed to carry out the volunteers’ roles.
Post by Friday 10pm New York Time:
a brief description of your Final Project organization
www.saveoursons.webs.com
Then describe two benefits of nongoverning volunteer orientation, and two benefits of nongoverning volunteer training, specific to the organization you selected. Use examples that illustrate why orientation and training are essential to the volunteer program at your organization.
Web Sites
Penner, M. (2002).
Volunteer Placement, Orientation and Training
. Retrieved October 23, 2009, from
https://charityvillage.com/Content.aspx?topic=volunteer_placement_orientation_and_training&last=164
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Bernard Madoff, a once highly regarded member of the Wall Street c.docxlascellesjaimie
Bernard Madoff, a once highly regarded member of the Wall Street community, recently pleaded guilty of running a $50 billion ponzi scheme. Research the driving forces behind his seemingly unethical behavior and discuss your findings. How did favoritism and bounded ethicality come into play in this case?
Tenbrunsel, A. (2011, January 17). Notre Dame Magazine. Retrieved March 5, 2015, from http://magazine.nd.edu/news/18097-ethics-now-when-the-worst-is-done-intended-or-not/
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Benefits of a Diverse WorkforceCommunication is of utmost import.docxlascellesjaimie
Benefits of a Diverse Workforce
Communication is of utmost importance in diverse teams. How a manager approaches a situation can determine the future direction of teamwork and ultimately the level of success achieved. When communicating with diverse teams, whether verbally, via e-mail, or in writing, managers need to consider the potential reactions as well as the intention of the message.
and the discussion of possible HR actions. Based on the review, develop a FEW page memo to the project teams addressing the following:
Remind both managers and employees of the benefits of a culturally diverse workgroup.
Make recommendations on how to avoid scheduling issues due to the religious observance.
Explain how you arrived at your decision using relevant academic references.
Justify your suggestions by using empirical evidence and reference to any applicable laws.
Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
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Benchmark - Evidence-Based Practice Project—Paper on Diabetes .docxlascellesjaimie
Benchmark - Evidence-Based Practice Project—Paper on Diabetes
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30.0 %Research or Evidence-Based Article Identified. Article Focuses on a Specific Diabetic Intervention or New Diagnostic Tool.
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Research or evidence-based article identified that focuses on a specific diabetic intervention or diagnostic tool in general.
Research or evidence-based article identified that focuses on a specific diabetic intervention and a diagnostic tool.
Research or evidence-based article identified that focuses on a specific diabetic intervention or diagnostic tool in a comprehensive manner, allowing all criteria of assignment to be fully addressed.
50.0 %Summary of Article Includes the Following Content: Discussion of Research Performed Clinical Findings, and Significance to Nursing Practice.
Content is incomplete or omits most of the requirements stated in the assignment criteria. Does not demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles. Does not demonstrate critical thinking and analysis of the overall program subject.
Content is incomplete or omits some requirements stated in the assignment criteria. Demonstrates shallow understanding of the basic principles only a surface level of evaluation is offered, methods are described but flawed or unrealistic and strategies are discussed, but incomplete.
Content is complete, but somewhat inaccurate and/or irrelevant. Demonstrates adequate understanding of the basic principles. Reasonable but limited inferences and conclusions are drawn but lack development. Supporting research is inadequate in relevance, quality, and/or currentness.
Content is comprehensive and accurate, and definitions are clearly stated. Sections form a cohesive logical and justified whole. Shows careful planning and attention to details and illuminates relationships. Research is adequate, current, and relevant, and addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment criteria.
Content is comprehensive. Presents ideas and information beyond that presented through the course, and substantiates their validity through solid, academic research where appropriate. Research is thorough, current, and relevant, and addresses all of the issues stated in assignment criteria. Final paper exhibits the process of creative thinking and development of proposal. Applies framework of knowledge, practice and sound research. Shows careful planning and attention to how disparate elements fit together.
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Paper lacks any discernible overall purpose or organizing claim.
Thesis and/or main claim are insufficiently developed and/or vague; purpose is not clear.
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Below I attached the instructions and requirements for this paper..docxlascellesjaimie
Below I attached the instructions and requirements for this paper.
It would have to be written with the idea of working in a long term care facility during clinicals.
APA format and references, citations, and plagerism will be double checked.
All requirements are in the attachment below.
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Below is 4 questions that I need answered. I usually just get other .docxlascellesjaimie
Below is 4 questions that I need answered. I usually just get other peoples responses and take bits and pieces of every one to create mine. If you could please do the same and make my discussion question answers touch every important detail that my fellow students have also touched on. Please make my disscussion answers original not following the same answering format as my fellow students. I dont want my teacher to know that All I do is take bits and pieces of others post to create my own
*Explain what motivation is and why managers need to be concerned about it.
*Explain what leadership is, when leaders are effective and ineffective, and the sources of power that enable managers to be effective leaders.
*Explain how different elements of group dynamics influence the functioning and effectiveness of groups and teams.
*Explain why strategic human resource management can help an organization gain a competitive advantage.
Below is all of these questions answered by different classmates in my class. Please use their answers as a base to formulate your own...
Motivation is the psychological forces that determine the direction of a person’s behavior in an organization, a person level of effort and a person level of persistence in the face of obstacles. Managers should be concerned with motivation because it explains why people behave the way they do. It can explain why a waiter is mean or nice, or why the customer service representative you are dealing with is helpful and understanding or rude and unhelpful.
Leadership is the process by which a person exerts influence over other people and inspires, motivates, and directs their activities, to help achieve group or organizational goal. Leaders are affective when they can unite a group to achieve a common goal. There are five types of power that a leader must balance. Legitimate power: the authority that a manager has by virtue of their position in an organizations hierarch. Reward power: the ability of a manager to give or withhold tangible and intangible rewards. Coercive power: the ability of a manager to punish others. Expert power: power that is based on the special knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader possesses. Referent power: power that comes from subordinates’ and coworkers’ respect, admiration, and loyalty.
There are five key elements of group dynamics. Group size: the number of members in a group can be an important determinant of members’ motivation, commitment and group performance. Group roles: a set of behaviors and task that a member of a group is expected to perform because of his or her position in the group. Group leadership: leadership is a key ingredient for high- performing groups, teams, and organizations. Group development over time: it sometimes takes a self-managed team two or three years to perform up to it true capabilities. Group norms: shared guidelines or rules for behavior that most group member follow. Group cohesivenes.
Level 3 NCEA - NZ: A Nation In the Making 1872 - 1900 SML.pptHenry Hollis
The History of NZ 1870-1900.
Making of a Nation.
From the NZ Wars to Liberals,
Richard Seddon, George Grey,
Social Laboratory, New Zealand,
Confiscations, Kotahitanga, Kingitanga, Parliament, Suffrage, Repudiation, Economic Change, Agriculture, Gold Mining, Timber, Flax, Sheep, Dairying,
How to Manage Reception Report in Odoo 17Celine George
A business may deal with both sales and purchases occasionally. They buy things from vendors and then sell them to their customers. Such dealings can be confusing at times. Because multiple clients may inquire about the same product at the same time, after purchasing those products, customers must be assigned to them. Odoo has a tool called Reception Report that can be used to complete this assignment. By enabling this, a reception report comes automatically after confirming a receipt, from which we can assign products to orders.
Andreas Schleicher presents PISA 2022 Volume III - Creative Thinking - 18 Jun...EduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education and Skills at the OECD presents at the launch of PISA 2022 Volume III - Creative Minds, Creative Schools on 18 June 2024.
This presentation was provided by Rebecca Benner, Ph.D., of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
Elevate Your Nonprofit's Online Presence_ A Guide to Effective SEO Strategies...TechSoup
Whether you're new to SEO or looking to refine your existing strategies, this webinar will provide you with actionable insights and practical tips to elevate your nonprofit's online presence.
A Free 200-Page eBook ~ Brain and Mind Exercise.pptxOH TEIK BIN
(A Free eBook comprising 3 Sets of Presentation of a selection of Puzzles, Brain Teasers and Thinking Problems to exercise both the mind and the Right and Left Brain. To help keep the mind and brain fit and healthy. Good for both the young and old alike.
Answers are given for all the puzzles and problems.)
With Metta,
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Barn Burning by William FaulknerThe store in which the justice.docx
1. Barn Burning by William Faulkner
The store in which the justice of the Peace's court was sitting
smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back
of the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from
where he sat he could see the ranked shelves close-packed with
the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose labels his
stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his
mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish-
this, the cheese which he knew he smelled and the hermetic
meat which his intestines believed he smelled coming in
intermittent gusts momen. tary and brief between the other
constant one, the smell and sense just a little of fear because
mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood. fie
could not see the table where the Justice sat and before which
his father and his father's enemy (our en- he thought in that
despair; ourn! mine and hisn both! He's my father!) stood, but
he could hear them, the two of them that is, because his father
had said no word yet:
"But what proof have you, Mr. Harris?"
"I told you. The hog got into my corn. I caught it up and sent it
back to him, I le had no fence that would hold it. I told him so,
warned him. The next time I put the hog in my pen. When he
came to get it I gave him enough wire to patch tip his pen. The
next time I put the hog up and kept it. I rode down to his house
and saw the wire I gave him still rolled on to the spool in his
yard. I told him he could have the hog when he paid me a dollar
pound fee.' That evening a came with the dollar and got the hog.
He was a strange . He said, 'He say to tell you wood and hay kin
burn.' I said, 'What?' 'That whut he say to tell you,' the aid.
'Wood and hay kin burn.' That night my barn burned. I got the
stock out but I lost the barn."
2. "Where is the ? Have you got him?"
"He was a strange , I tell you. I don't know what became of
him."
But that's not proof. Don't you see that's not proof?"
"Get that boy up here. He knows." For a moment the boy
thought too that the man meant his older brother until Harris
said, "Not him. The little one. The boy." and, crouching, small
for his age, small and wiry like his father, in patched and faded
jeans even too small for him, with straight, uncombed, brown
hair and eyes gray and wild as storm scud, he saw the men
between himself and the table part and become a lane of grim
faces, at the end of which he saw the justice, a shabby,
collarless, graying man in spectacles, beckoning him, he felt no
floor under his bare feet; he seemed to walk beneath the
palpable weight of the grim turning faces. His father, stiff in his
black Sunday coat donned not for the trial but for the moving,
did not even look at him, He aims for me to lie, he thought,
again with that frantic grief and despair. And I will have to do
hit.
'What's your name, boy?" the Justice said.
"Colonel Sartoris Snopes," the boy whispered.
"Hey?" the Justice said. "Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I
reckon anybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't
help but tell the truth, can they?" The boy said nothing. Enemy!
Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could
not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his
voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris:
"Do you want me to question this boy?" But he could hear, and
during those subsequent long seconds while there was
3. absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that of quiet
and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the
end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing
had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity,
weightless in time.
"No!" Harris said violently, explosively. "Damnation! Send him
out of here!" Now time, the fluid world, rushed beneath him
again, the voices coming to him again through the smell of
cheese and sealed meat, the fear and despair and the old grief of
blood:
"This case is closed. I can't find against you, Snopes, but I can
give you advice. Leave this county and don't come back to it."
His father spoke for the first time, his voice cold and harsh,
level, without emphasis: "I aim to. I don't figure to stay in a
country among people who . . ." he said something unprintable
and vile, addressed to no one.
"That'll do," the justice said. "Take your wagon and get out of
this county before dark. Case dismissed. "
His father turned, and he followed the stiff black coat, the wiry
figure walking a little stiffly from where a Confederate
provost's man's musket ball had taken him in the heel on a
stolen horse thirty years ago, followed the two backs now, since
his older brother had appeared from somewhere in the crowd, no
taller than the father but thicker, chewing tobacco steadily,
between the two lines of grim-faced men and out of the store
and across the worn gallery and down the sagging steps and
among the dogs and half-grown boys in the mild May dust,
where as he passed a voice hissed:
"Barn burner!"
4. Again he could not see, whirling; there was a face in a red haze,
moonlike, bigger than the full moon, the owner of it half again
his size, he leaping in the red haze toward the face, feeling no
blow, feeling no shock when his head struck the earth,
scrabbling up and leaping again, feeling no blow this time either
and tasting no blood, scrabbling up to see the other boy in full
flight and himself already leaping into pursuit as his father's
hand jerked him back, the harsh, cold voice speaking above
him: "Go get in the wagon."
It stood in a grove of locusts and mulberries across the road.
His two hulking sisters in their Sunday dresses and his mother
and her sister in calico and sunbonnets were already in it,
sitting on and among the sorry residue of the dozen and more
movings which even the boy could remember-the battered stove,
the broken beds and chairs, the clock inlaid with mother-of-
pearl, which would not run, stopped at some fourteen minutes
past two o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which
had been his mother's dowry. She was crying, though when she
saw him she drew her sleeve across her face and began to
descend from the wagon. "Get back," the father said.
He's hurt. I got to get some water and wash his. . .
"Get back in the wagon," his father said, he got in too, over the
tail-gate. His father mounted to the seat where the older brother
already sat and struck the gaunt mules two savage blows with
the peeled willow, but without heat. It was not even sadistic; it
was exactly that same quality which in later years would cause
his descendants to over-run the engine before putting a motor
car into motion, striking and reining back in the same
movement. The wagon went on, the store with its quiet crowd of
grimly watching men dropped behind; a curve in the road hid it.
Forever he thought. Maybe he's done satisfied now, now that he
has ... stopping himself, not to say it aloud even to himself. His
mother's hand touched his shoulder.
5. "Does hit hurt?" she said.
"Naw," he said. "Hit don't hurt. Lemme be."
"Can't you wipe some of the blood off before hit dries?"
"I'll wash to-night," he said. "Lemme be, I tell you."
The wagon went on. He did not know where they were going.
None of them ever did or ever asked, because it was always
somewhere, always a house of sorts waiting for them a day or
two days or even three days away. Likely, his father bad already
arranged to make a crop on another farm before he ... Again he
had to stop himself. He (the father) always did. There was
something about his wolflike independence and even courage,
when the advantage was at least neutral, which impressed
strangers, as if they got from his latent ravening ferocity not so
much a sense of dependability as a feeling that his ferocious
conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of
advantage to all whose interest lay with his.
That night they camped, in a grove of oaks and beeches where a
spring ran. The nights were still cool and they had a fire against
it, of a rail lifted from a nearby fence and cut into lengths-a
small fire, neat, niggard almost, a shrewd fire; such fires were
his father's habit and custom always, even in freezing weather.
Older, the boy might have remarked this and wondered why not
a big one; why should not a man who had not only seen the
waste and extravagance of war, but who had in his blood an
inherent voracious prodigality with material not his own, have
burned everything in sight?
Then he might have gone a step farther and thought that that
was the reason: that niggard blaze was the living fruit of nights
passed during those four years in the woods hiding from all
6. men, blue or gray, with his strings of horses (captured horses,
he called them). And older still, he might have divined the true
reason: that the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring
of his father's being, as the element of steel or of powder spoke
to other men, as the one weapon for the preservation of
integrity, else breath were not worth the breathing, and hence to
be regarded with respect and used with discretion.
But, he did not think this now and he had seen those same
niggard blazes all his life. He merely ate his supper beside it
and was already half asleep over his iron plate when his father
called him, and once more he followed the stiff back, the stiff
and ruthless limp, up the slope and on to the starlit road where,
turning, he could see his father against the stars but without
face or depth-a shape black, flat, and bloodless as though cut
from tin in the iron folds of the frockcoat which had not been
made lot him, the voice harsh like tin and without heat like tin:
"You were fixing to tell them. You would have told him," He
didn't answer. His father struck him with the flat of his hand on
the side of the head, hard but without heat, exactly as he had
struck the two mules at the store, exactly as he would strike
either of them with any stick in order to kill a horse fly, his
voice still without heat or anger: "You're getting to be a man.
You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or
you ain't going to have any blood to stick to you. Do you think
either of them, any man there this morning, would? Don't you
know all they wanted was a chance to get at me because they
knew I had them beat? Eh?" Later, twenty years later, he was to
tell himself, " If I had said they wanted only truth, justice, he
would have hit me again." But now he said nothing. He was not
crying. He just stood there. "Answer me," his father said.
"Yes," he whispered. His father turned.
"Get on to bed. We'll be there tomorrow."
7. To-morrow they were there. In the early afternoon the wagon
stopped before a paintless two-room house identical almost with
the dozen others it had stopped before even in the boy's ten
years, and again, as on the other dozen occasions, his mother
and aunt got down and began to unload the wagon, although his
two sisters and his father and brother had not moved.
"Likely hit ain't fitten for hawgs," one of the sisters said.
"Nevertheless, fit it will and you'll hog it and like it," his father
said. "Get out of them chairs and help your Ma unload."
The two sisters got down, big, bovine, in a flutter of cheap
ribbons; one of them drew from the jumbled wagon bed a
battered lantern, the other a worn broom. His father handed the
reins to the older son and began to climb stiffly over the wheel.
"When they get unloaded, take the team to the barn and feed
them." Then he said, and at first, the boy thought he was still
speaking to his brother: "Come with me."
"Me?" he said.
"Yes," his father said. "you."
"Abner," his mother said. His father paused and looked back-the
harsh level state beneath the shaggy, graying, irascible brows.
I reckon I'll have a word with the man that aims to begin
tomorrow owning me body and soul for the next eight months."
They went back up the road. A week ago-or before last night,
that is-he would have asked where they were going, but not
now. His father had struck him before last night but never
before had he paused afterward to explain why, it was as if the
blow and the following calm, outrageous voice still rang,
8. repercussed, divulging nothing to him save the terrible handicap
of being young, the light weight of his few years, just heavy
enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to
be ordered but not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it,
to resist it and try to change the course of its events.
Presently he could see the grove of oaks and cedars and the
other flowering trees and shrubs where the house would be,
though not the house yet. They walked beside a fence massed
with honeysuckle and Cherokee roses and came to a gate
swinging open between two brick pillars, and now, beyond a
sweep of drive, he saw the house for the first time and at that
instant he forgot his father and the terror and despair both, and
even when he remembered his father again (who had not
stopped) the terror and despair did not return. Because, for all
the twelve movings, they had sojourned until now in a poor
country, a land of small farms and fields and houses, and he had
never seen a house like this before. Hits big as a courthouse he
thought quietly, with a surge of peace and joy whose reason he
could not have thought into words, being too young for that:
They are safe from him. People whose lives are a part of this
peace and dignity are beyond his touch, he no more to them than
a buzzing wasp: capable of stinging for a little moment but
that's all,- the spell of this peace and dignity rendering even the
barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the
puny flames he might contrive . . . this, the peace and joy,
ebbing for an instant as he looked again at the stiff black back,
the stiff and implacable limp of the figure which was not
dwarfed by the house, for the reason that it had never looked
big anywhere and which now, against the serene columned
backdrop, had more than ever that impervious quality of
something cut ruthlessly from tin, depthless, as though,
sidewise to the sun, it would cast no shadow. Watching him, the
boy remarked the absolutely undeviating course which his father
held and saw the stiff foot come squarely down in a pile of fresh
droppings where a horse had stood in the drive and which his
9. father could have avoided by a simple change of stride. But it
ebbed only for a moment, though he could not have thought this
into words either, walking on in the spell of the house, which he
could ever want but without envy, without sorrow, certainly
never with that ravening and jealous rage which unknown to
him walked in the ironlike black coat before him; Maybe he will
feel it too, Maybe it will even change him now from what
maybe be couldn't help but be.
They crossed the portico. Now he could hear his father's stiff
foot as it came down on the boards with clocklike finality, a
sound out of all proportion to the displacement of the body it
bore and which was not dwarfed either by the white door before
it, as though it had attained to a sort of vicious and ravening
minimum not to be dwarfed by anything-the flat, wide, black
hat, the formal coat of broadcloth which had once been black
but which had now that friction-glazed greenish cast of the
bodies of old house flies, the lifted sleeve which was too large,
the lifted hand like a curled claw. The door opened so promptly
that the boy knew the Negro must have been watching them all
the time, an old man with neat grizzled hair, in a linen jacket.
who stood barring the door with his body, saying, "Wipe yo
foots, white man, fo you come in here, Major ain't home
nohow."
"Get out of my way, ," his father said, without heat too, flinging
the door back and the Negro also and entering, his hat still on
his head. And now the boy saw the prints of the stiff foot on the
doorjamb and saw them appear on the pale rug behind the
machinelike deliberation of the foot which seemed to bear (or
transmit) twice the weight which the body compassed. The
Negro was shouting "Miss Lula! Miss Lula! " somewhere behind
them, then the boy, deluged as though by a warm wave by a
suave turn of carpeted stair and a pendant glitter of chandeliers
and a mute gleam of gold frames, heard the swift feet and saw
her too, a lady-perhaps he had never seen her like before either-
10. in a gray, smooth gown with lace at the throat and an apron tied
at the waist and the sleeves turned back, wiping cake or biscuit
dough from her hands with a towel as she came up the hall,
looking not at his father at all but at the tracks on the blond rug
with an expression of incredulous amazement.
"I tried," the Negro cried. "I tole him to . . ."
"Will you please go away?" she said in a shaking voice. "Major
de Spain is not at home. Will you please go away?"
His father had not spoken again. He did not speak again. He did
not even look at her. He just stood stiff in the center of the rug,
in his hat, the shaggy iron-gray brows twitching slightly above
the pebble-colored eyes as he appeared to examine the house
with brief deliberation. Then with the same deliberation he
turned; the boy watched him pivot on the good leg and saw the
stiff foot drag round the arc of the turning, leaving a final long
and fading smear. His father never looked at it, he never once
looked down at the rug, The Negro held the door, It closed
behind them, upon the hysteric and indistinguishable woman-
wail. His father stopped at the top of the steps and scraped his
boot clean on the edge of it. At the gate he stopped again. He
stood for a moment, planted stiffly on the stiff foot, looking
back at the house. 'Pretty and white, ain't it?" he said. "That's
sweat. weat. Maybe it ain't white enough yet to suit him. Maybe
he wants to mix some white sweat with it."
Two hours later the boy was chopping wood behind the house
within which his mother and aunt and the two sisters (the
mother and aunt, not the two girls, he knew that; even at this
distance and muffled by walls the flat loud voices of the two
girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia) were setting up the
stove to prepare a meal, when he heard the hooves and saw the
linen-clad man on a fine sorrel mare, whom he recognized even
before he saw the rolled rug in front of the Negro youth
11. following on a fat boy carriage horse-a suffused, angry face
vanishing, still at full gallop, beyond the corner of the house
where his father and brother were sitting in the two tilted
chairs; and a moment later, almost before he could have put the
axe down, he heard the hooves again and watched the sorrel
mare go back out of the yard, already galloping again. Then his
father began to shout one of the sisters' names, who presently
emerged backward from the kitchen door dragging the rolled
rug along the ground by one end while the other sister walked
behind it.
"If you ain't going to tote, go on and set up the wash pot," the
first said.
"You, Sarty! " the second shouted. "Set up the wash pot!" His
father appeared at the door, framed against that shabbiness, as
he had been against that other bland perfection, impervious to
either, the mother's anxious face at his shoulder.
"Go on," the father said. "Pick it up." The two sisters stooped,
broad, lethargic; stooping, they presented an incredible expanse
of pale cloth and a flutter of tawdry ribbons.
"If I thought enough of a rug to have to git hit all the way from
France I wouldn't keep hit where folks coming in would have to
tromp on hit," the first said. They raised the rug,
"Abner, " the mother said. "Let me do it."
"You go back and git dinner," his father said. "I'll tend to this."
From the woodpile through the rest of the afternoon the boy
watched them, the rug spread flat in the dust beside the
bubbling wash-pot, the two sisters stooping over it with that
profound and lethargic reluctance, while the father stood over
them in turn, implacable and grim, driving them though never
12. raising his voice again. He could smell the harsh homemade lye
they were using; he saw his mother come to the door once and
look toward them with an expression not anxious now but very
like despair; he saw his father turn, and he fell to with the axe
and saw from the corner of his eye his father raise from the
ground a flattish fragment of field stone and examine it and
return to the pot, and this time his mother actually spoke:
"Abner. Abner. Please don't. Please, Abner,"
Then he was done too. it was dusk; the whippoorwills had
already begun. He could smell coffee from the room where they
would presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-
afternoon meal, though when he entered the house he realized
they were having coffee again probably because there was a fire
on the hearth, before which the rug now lay spread over the
backs of the two chairs. The tracks of his father's foot were
gone. Where they had been were now long, water-cloudy
scoriations resembling the sporadic course of a lilliputian
mowing machine.
It still hung there while they ate the cold food and then went to
bed, scattered without order or claim up and down the two
rooms, his mother in one bed, where his father would later lie,
the older brother in the other, himself, the aunt, and the two
sisters on pallets on the floor. But his father was not in bed yet.
The last thing the boy remembered was the depthless, harsh
silhouette of the hat and coat bending over the rug and it
seemed to him that he had not even closed his eyes when the
silhouette was standing over him, the fire almost dead behind it,
the stiff foot prodding him awake. "Catch up the mule," his
father said.
When he returned with the mule his father was standing in the
black door, the rolled rug over his shoulder. "Ain't you going to
ride?" he said.
13. "No, Give me your foot."
He bent his knee into his father's hand, the wiry, surprising
power flowed smoothly, rising, he rising with it, on to the
mule's bare back (they had owned a saddle once; the boy could
remember it though not when or where) and with the same
effortlessness his father swung the rug up in front of him. Now
in the starlight they retraced the afternoon's path, up the dusty
road rife with honeysuckle, through the gate and up the black
tunnel of the drive to the lightless house, where he sat on the
mule and felt the rough warp of the rug drag across his thighs
and vanish.
"Don't you want me to help?" he whispered. His father did not
answer and now he heard again that stiff foot striking the
hollow portico with that wooden and clock like deliberation,
that outrageous overstatement of the weight it carried. The rug,
hunched, not flung (the boy could tell that even in the darkness)
from his father's shoulder struck the angle of wall and floor
with a sound unbelievably loud, thunderous, then the foot again,
unhurried and enormous; a light came on in the house and the
boy sat, tense, breathing steadily and quietly and just a little
fast, though the foot itself did not increase its beat at all,
descending the steps now; now the boy could see him.
'Don't you want to ride now?" he whispered. "We kin both ride
now," the light within the house altering now, flaring up and
sinking. He's coming down the stairs now, he thought. fie had
already ridden the mule up beside the horse block; presently his
father was up behind him and he doubled the reins over and
slashed the mule across the neck, but before the animal could
begin to trot the hard, thin arm came round him, the hard,
knotted hand jerking the mule back to a walk.
In the first red rays of the sun they were in the lot, putting plow
gear on the mules. This time the sorrel mare was in the lot
14. before he heard it at all, the rider collarless and even
bareheaded, trembling, speaking in a shaking voice as the
woman in the house had done, his father merely looking up once
before stooping again to the hame3 he was buckling, so that the
man on the mare spoke to his stooping back;
"You must realize you have ruined that rug, Wasn't there
anybody here, any of your women ." he ceased, shaking, the boy
watching him, the older brother leaning now in the stable door,
chewing, blinking slowly and steadily at nothing apparently "It
cost a hundred dollars. But you never had a hundred dollars.
You never will. So I'm going to charge you twenty bushels of
corn against your crop. I'll add it in your contract and when you
come to the commissary you can sign it. That won't keep Mrs.
de Spain quiet but maybe it will teach you to wipe your feet off
before you enter her house again."
Then he was gone. The boy looked at his father, who still had
not spoken or even looked up again, who was now adjusting the
logger-head4 in the hame.
"Pap," be said. I His father looked at him-the inscrutable face,
the shaggy brows beneath which the gray eyes glinted coldly.
Suddenly the boy went toward him, fast, stopping also,
suddenly. "You done the best you could!" he cried. "If he
wanted hit done different why didn't he wait and tell you how?
He won't git no twenty bushels! He won't git none! We'll gether
hit and hide hit! I kin watch . . . "
"Did you put the cutter back in that straight stock like I told
you?"'
"No, sir," he said.
"Then go do it."
15. That was Wednesday. During the rest of that week he worked
steadily, at what was within his scope and some which was
beyond it, with an industry that did not need to be driven nor
even commanded twice; he had this from his mother, with the
difference that some at least of what he did he liked to do, such
as splitting wood with the half-size axe which his mother and
aunt had earned; or saved money somehow, to present him with
at Christmas. In company with the two older women (and on one
afternoon, even one of the sisters), he built pens for the shoat
and the cow which were a part of his father's contract with the
landlord, and one afternoon, his father being absent, gone
somewhere on one of the mules, he went to the field.
They were running a middle buster now, his brother holding the
plow straight while he handled the reins, and walking beside the
straining mule, the rich black sod shearing cool and damp
against his bare ankles, he thought Maybe this is the end of it.
Maybe even that twenty bushels that seems hard to have to pay
for just a rug will be a cheap price for him to stop forever and
always from being what he used to he; thinking, dreaming now,
so that his brother had to speak sharply to him to mind the
mule: Maybe he even won't collect the twenty bushels, Maybe it
will all add up and balance and vanish-corn, rug, fire,- The
terror and grief the being pulled two ways like between two
teams of horses-gone, done with for ever and ever
Then it was Saturday; he looked Lip from beneath the mule he
was harnessing and saw his father in the black coat and hat. "
Not that, " his father said. "The wagon gear." And then, two
hours later, sitting in the wagon bed behind his father and
brother on the seat, the wagon accomplished a final curve, and
he saw the weathered paintless store with its tattered tobacco-
and patent-medicine posters and the tethered wagons and saddle
animals below the gallery. He mounted the gnawed steps behind
his father and brother, and there again was the lane of quiet,
watching faces for the three of them to walk through. I le saw
16. the man in spectacles sitting at the plank table and he did not
need to be told this was a Justice of the Peace; he sent one glare
of fierce, exultant, partisan defiance at the man in collar and
cravat now, whom he had seen but twice before in his life, and
that on a galloping horse, who now wore on his face an
expression riot of rage but of amazed unbelief which the boy
could not have known was at the incredible circumstance of
being sued by one of his own ten ants, and came and stood
against his father and cried at the Justice: "He ain't done it! fie
ain't burnt . . "
"Go back to the wagon," his father said.
"Burnt?" the Justice said. "Do I understand this rug was burned
too?"
"Does anybody here claim it was?" his father said. "Go back to
the wagon." But he did not, he merely retreated to the rear of
the room, crowded as that other had been, but not to sit down
this time, instead, to stand pressing among the motionless
bodies, listening to the voices:
"And you claim twenty bushels of corn is too high for the
damage you did to the rug? "
"Ile brought the rug to me and said he wanted the tracks washed
out of it. I washed the tracks out and took the rug back to him,"
"But you didn't carry the rug back to him in the same condition
it was in before you made the tracks on it."
His father (lid not answer, and now for perhaps half a minute
there was no sound at all save that of breathing, the faint,
steady suspiration of complete and intent listening .
"You decline to answer that, Mr. Snopes?" Again his father did
17. not answer. -Fir going to find against you, Mr. Snopes. I'm
going to find that you were responsible for" the injury to Major
de Spain's rug and hold you liable for it. But twenty bushels of
corn seems a little high for a man in your circumstances to have
to pay. Major de Spain claims it cost a hundred dollars. October
corn will be worth about fifty cents. I figure
that if Major de Spain can stand a ninety-five dollar loss on
something he paid cash for, you can stand a five-dollar loss you
haven't earned yet. I hold you in damages to Major de Spain to
the amount of ten bushels of corn over and above your contract
with him, to be paid to him out of your crop at gathering time.
Court adjourned.
It had taken no time hardly, the morning was but half begun. He
thought they would return home and perhaps back to the field,
since they were late, far behind all other farmers. But instead
his father passed on behind the wagon, merely indicating with
his hand for the older brother to follow with it, and crossed the
road toward the blacksmith shop opposite, pressing on after his
father, overtaking him, speaking, whispering up at the harsh,
calm face beneath the weathered hat: "He won't git no ten
bushels neither. Ile won't git one. We'll . , . " until his father
glanced for an instant down at him, the face absolutely calm,
the grizzled eyebrows tangled above the cold eyes, the voice
almost pleasant, almost gentle:
"You think so? Well, we'll wait till October anyway."
The matter of the wagon-the setting of a spoke or two and the
tightening of the tires-did not take long either, the business of
the tires accomplished by driving the wagon into the spring
branch behind the shop and letting it stand there, the mules
nuzzling into the water from time to time, and the boy on the
seat with the idle reins, looking up the slope and through the
sooty tunnel of the shed where the slow hammer rang and where
18. his father sat on an upended cypress bolt, easily, either talking
or listening, still sitting there when the boy brought the
dripping wagon up out of the branch and halted it before the
door.
"Take them on to the shade and hitch," his father said. He did so
and returned. His father and the smith and a third man squatting
on his heels inside the door were talking, about crops and
animals; the boy, squatting too in the ammoniac dust and hoof
parings and scales of rust, heard his father tell a long and
unhurried story Out of the time before the. birth of the older
brother even when he had been a professional horsetrader. And
then his father came Lip beside him where he stood before a
tattered last year's circus poster on the other side of the store,
gazing rapt and quiet it the scarlet horses, the incredible
poisings and convolutions of tulle and tights and
painted leers of comedians, and said, "It's time to eat."
But not at home. Squatting beside his brother against the front
wall, he watched his lather emerge from the store and produce
from a paper sack a segment of cheese and divide it carefully
and deliberately into three with his pocket knife and produce
crackers from the same sack. They all three squatted on the
gallery and ate, slowly, without talking; then in the store again,
they drank from a tin dipper tepid water 'Melling of the cedar
bucket an(.] of living beech trees. And still they did not go
home. It was as a horse lot this time, a tall rail fence upon and
along which men stood and sat and out of which one by one
horses were led, to be walked and trotted and then cantered
back and forth along the road while the slow swapping and
buying went on and the sun began to slant westward, they-the
three of them-watching and listening, the older brother with his
Muddy eyes and his steady, inevitable tobacco, the father
commenting now and then on certain of the animals, to no one
in particular.
19. It was after sundown when they reached home. They ate supper
by lamplight, then, sitting on the doorstep, the boy watched the
night fully accomplish, listening to the whippoorwills and the
frogs, when he heard his mother's voice: "Abner! No! No! 0h,
God. 0h, God. Abner!" and he rose, whirled, and saw the altered
light through the door where a candle stub now burned in a
bottle neck on the table and his father, still in the hat and coat,
at once formal and burlesque as though dressed carefully for
some shabby and ceremonial violence, emptying the reservoir of
the lamp back into the five-gallon kerosene can from which it
had been filled, while the mother tugged at his arm until he
shifted the lamp to the other hand and flung her back, not
savagely or viciously, just hard, into the wall, her hands flung
out against the wall for balance, her mouth open and in her face
the same quality of hopeless despair as had been in her voice.
Then his father saw him standing in the door. "Go to the barn
and get that can of oil we were oiling the wagon with," he said.
The boy did not move. Then he could speak.
"What . . ." he cried. "What are you
"Go get that oil," his father said. "Go,"
Then he was moving, running, outside the house, toward the
stable: this the old habit, the old blood which he had not been
permitted to choose for himself, which had been bequeathed him
willy nilly and which had run for so long (and who knew where,
battening on what of outrage and savagery and lust) before it
came to him. I could keep on, he thought. I could run on and on
and never look back, never need to see his face again. Only I
can't, I can't, the rusted can in his hand now, the liquid
sploshing in it as he ran back to the house and into it, into the
sound of his mothers weeping in the next room, and handed the
can to his father.
20. "Ain't you going to even send a ? " he cried. "At least you sent a
before! "
This time his father didn't strike him, The hand came even
faster than the blow had, the same hand which had set the can
on the table with almost excruciating care flashing from the can
toward him too quick for him to follow it, gripping him by the
back of his shirt and on to tiptoe before he had seen it quit the
can, the face stooping at him in breathless and frozen ferocity,
the cold, dead voice speaking over him to the older brother who
leaned against the table, chewing with that steady, curious,
sidewise motion of cows:
"Empty the can into the big one and go on. I'll catch up with
you."
"Better tie him up to the bedpost," the brother said.
"Do like I told you", the father said. Then the boy was moving,
his bunched shirt and the hard, bony hand between his shoulder
der- blades, his toes just touching the floor, across the room and
into the other one, past the sisters sitting with spread heavy
thighs in the two chairs over the cold hearth, and to where his
mother and aunt sat side by side on the bed, the aunt's arms
about his mother's shoulders.
"Hold him," the father said. The aunt made a startled movement.
"Not you.' the father said. "Lennie. Take hold of him. I want to
see you do it." His mother took him by the wrist. "You'll hold
him better than that. If he gets loose don't you know what he is
going to do? He will go up yonder." Ile jerked his head toward
the road"Maybe I'd better tie him."
"I'll hold him," his mother whispered.
"See you do then." Then his father was gone, the stiff foot
21. heavy and measured upon the boards, ceasing at last.
Then he began to struggle. His mother caught him in both arms,
he jerking and wrenching at them. He le would be stronger in
the end, he knew that. But he had no time to wait for it. "Lemme
go!" he cried. "I don't want to have to hit you!"
"Let him go! " the aunt said. "If he don't go, before God, I am
going up there myself! "
"Don't you see I can't?" his mother cried. "Sarty! Sarty! No!
No! Help me, Lizzie! "
Then he was free. His aunt grasped at him but it was too late.
He whirled, running, his mother stumbled forward on to her
knees behind him, crying to the nearer sister: "Catch him, Net!
Catch him! " But that was too late too, the sister (the sisters
were twins, born at the same time, yet either of them now gave
the impression of being, encompassing as much living meat and
volume and weight as any other two of the family) not yet
having begun to rise from the chair, her head, face, alone
merely turned, presenting to him in the flying instant an
astonishing expanse of young female features untroubled by any
surprise even, wearing only an expression of bovine interest.
Then he was out of the room, out of the house, in the mild dust
of the starlit road and the heavy rifeness of honeysuckle, the
pale ribbon unspooling with terrific slowness under his running
feet, reaching the gate at last and turning in, running, his heart
and lungs drumming, on up the drive toward the lighted house,
the lighted door. I le did not knock, he burst in, sobbing for
breath, incapable for the moment of speech; he saw the
astonished face of the Negro in the linen jacket without
knowing when the Negro had appeared.
"De Spain! " he cried, panted. "Where's then he saw the white
man too emerging from a white door down the hall. "Barn!" he
22. cried. "Barn!"
"What?" the white man said. "Barn?
"Yes!" the boy cried. "Barn!"
"Catch him!" the white man shouted,
But it was too late this time too. The Negro grasped his shirt,
but the entire sleeve, rotten with washing, carried away, and he
was out that door too and in the drive again, and had actually
never ceased to run even while he was screaming into the white
man's face.
Behind him the white man was shouting, "My horse! Fetch my
horse!" and he thought for an instant of cutting across the park
and climbing the fence into the road, but he did not know the
park nor how high the vine-massed fence might be and he dared
not risk it. So he ran on (town the drive, blood and breath
roaring; presently he was in the road again though he could not
see it. He could not hear either: the galloping mare was almost
upon him before he heard her, and even then he held his course,
as if the ,cry urgency of his wild grief and need must in a
moment more find him wings, waiting until the ultimate instant
to hurl himself aside and into the weed-choked roadside ditch as
the horse thundered past and on, for an instant in furious
silhouette against the stars, the tranquil early summer night sky
which, even before the shape of the horse and rider vanished,
stained abruptly and violently upward: a long, swirling roar
incredible and soundless, blotting the stars, and he springing up
and into the road again, running again, knowing it was too late
yet still running even after he heard the shot and, an instant
later, two shots, pausing now without knowing he had ceased to
run, crying "Pap! Pap!," running again before he knew he had
begun to run, stumbling, tripping over something and scrabbling
Lip again without ceasing to run, looking backward over his
23. shoulder at the glare as he got up, running on among the
invisible trees, panting, sobbing, "Father! Father!"
At midnight he was sitting on the crest of a hill. He did not
know it was midnight and he did not know how far he had come.
But there was no glare behind him now and he sat now, his back
toward what he had called home for four days anyhow, his face
toward the dark woods which he would enter when breath was
strong again, small, shaking steadily in the chili darkness,
hugging himself into the remainder of his thin, rotten shirt, the
grief and despair now no longer terror and fear but just grief
and despair. Father, My father, he thought, "He was brave!" he
cried suddenly, aloud but not loud, no more than a whisper: "Ile
was! He was in the war! lie was in Colonel Sartoris' cav'ry! "
not knowing that his father had gone to that war a private in the
fine old European sense, wearing no uniform, admitting the
authority of and giving fidelity to no man or army or flag, going
to war as Malbrouck6 himself did; for booty--it meant nothing
and less than nothing to him if it were enemy booty or his own.
The slow constellations wheeled on. It would be dawn and then
sun -up after a while and he would he hungry But that would be
to-morrow and now he was only cold, and walking would cure
that. His breathing was easier now, and he decided to get up and
go on, and then he found that he bad been asleep because he
knew it was almost dawn, the night almost over. He could tell
that from the whippoorwills. They were everywhere now among
the dark trees below him, constant and inflectioned and
ceaseless, so that, as the instant for giving over to the day birds
drew nearer and nearer, there was no interval at all between
them. He got up. He was a little stiff, but walking would cure
that too as it would the cold, and soon there would be the sun.
He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which
the liquid silver voices of the birds, called unceasing-the rapid
and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late
spring night. He did not look back.
25. RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
ENGLISH 2328
Daigle
The research paper should be at least 1000 words and may be
longer.
It counts 20% of your grade in the course.
You must follow the assignment exactly.
Please note that this is not a thesis controlled essay; it is an
exploration of sources.
You will use a total of five sources, including the primary
source.
The works cited list must be in MLA format. Use
www.easybib.com
to help you with formatting, or send me a message. If you use
databases, you will often find the entire citation at the end of
the commentary. You will just need to copy and paste it in your
works cited list and make whatever formatting changes
necessary.
You must follow these instructions exactly.
1. Choose one of the following stories, short novels, or plays
for your research paper. You may wish to read the introduction
to the author and then to read the first few paragraphs of the
story, novel, or play to help you make your choice. If you want
to know a little more about your selection, let me know. I
suggest that you read your primary source (the story, short
26. novel, or play) before looking for commentaries (secondary
sources), since you'll want to experience it as literature with all
its interesting details and surprises first. Once you have made
your choice, read carefully and take notes, jotting down any
questions that occur to you as you read. These questions will be
part of your research paper.
Henry James, "Daisy Miller: A Study" (C: 421) , "The Real
Thing" (C: 460), or "The Beast in the Jungle" (C: 477)
Katherine Anne Porter, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" (D: 494)
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning" (D:800)
Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (D: 826)
Eudora Welty, "Petrified Man" (E: 52)
Tennessee Williams,
A Streetcar Named Desire
(E: 93)
Arthur Miller,
Death of a Salesman
(E: 238)
James Baldwin: "Going to Meet the Man" (E: 423)
Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People" (E: 445)
Toni Morrison, "Recitatif" (E: 609)
Philip Roth, "Defender of the Faith" (E: 647)
27. Raymond Carver: "Cathedral" (E: 737)
Sandra Cisneros: "Woman Hollering Creek" (E: 1131)
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" (E: 1143)
Preparing to Write the Essay
2. Find four commentaries (articles, interviews, overviews,
critical essays, etc.)
about the story, novel, or play
and take notes or highlight the parts that help in your
understanding. You should use
at least two substantial quotations from each commentary in
your paper.
I encourage you to use more than four commentaries (sources).
Keep in mind that your research should focus on the literature
itself, not on the author, though you may find articles in which
the author (writer of the primary source) discusses the story,
novel, or play, or you may find that the author's own life is
relevant to the story in a very specific way.
The primary source (the story, novel,
or
play) does not count as one of the four commentaries
(secondary sources). This means that you will have at least
five sources
listed in your works cited.
Don't use:
28. No internet (or print) sources that are "notes" or "summaries" of
the primary source (CliffsNotes, Endnotes, Classicnotes,
Booknotes, Sparknotes, Novelguide.com, etc) (Anything with
lots of advertisements should be avoided.)
No student papers or free essays from websites like
1234helpme.com, freeessays.tv, gradesaver.com,
sunflower.singnet.com, cbronte.com, bookrags,
planetpapers.com, antiessays.com, directessays.com,
academon.com, echeat.com--I'm truly amazed at how many
websites like this exist! (These papers are often already
plagiarized, or they are written by high school students with no
real evidence for their views.)
No encyclopedias, especially Wikipedia,
which is a good general reference but not always reliable,
especially not as literary criticism
No dictionaries--definitions of words aren't commentaries
(though it's good to look up words, of course)
No unsigned internet articles
Use:
Books (biographies of the author, compilations of critical
essays, critical studies of the story, novel or play)
HCCS databases (especially
Literature Resource Center)
. Choose the tab with "Literary Criticism, Articles, and Work
Overviews." You will also see that you can search by the title of
the story, which is very useful. There is a link to the library at
the top of the homepage for the course.
Movies or documentaries that relate to the the primary source
Reliable websites (with authors listed)
Websites with .org, .gov., .edu
ACCESSING DATABASES FROM HOME
All HCCS students are entitled to use the college databases
29. while enrolled in Houston Community College.
Here is how to access the databases from home:
Log in to
Student System
, open the menu on the left titled Self Service and click on the
link to
Student Center
. Once you've done this, scroll down to the field titled Personal
Information and click on the link to Demographic Data. Your
library barcode is the third number listed on this page, below
your W-number.
You can also get a physical student ID card, which has your
library barcode on the back. You can find more information
about
getting your student ID card
under Step 5: Obtain your photo ID.
Writing the Paper
3. In your paper, begin with a brief introduction in which you
tell why you chose this story or play, what questions you had
after reading, how your found your sources, which sources were
most useful.
This introduction is required.
You should use "I" in the introduction since you are discussing
your personal response.
4. Include a
very brief
discussion of the primary source itself, including quotations
that you think are important. This part of the paper shouldn't be
30. more than a paragraph or two. (I emphasize "brief" because in
the past, some students have discussed the story, novel, or play
for half the paper and responded very briefly to the
commentaries.)
This part of the paper should be similar to a short reading
response.
5. Then discuss each commentary (source) in a full paragraph
for each source, letting the reader know what the critics have
said about your story, novel, or play.
Include at least two substantial quotations from the source
and your responses to what the critics say. You will need to
give the name and author of each commentary, but don't use
these as headings. I prefer that you organize your essay by
discussing the sources one by one. You may, of course, make
connections among the sources to make the essay flow nicely.
I'm interested in what you find out about the literature through
research.
Please follow punctuation rules for quotations. Quotation marks
don't substitute for other marks of punctuation (commas, colons,
semicolons, periods). Here is a website that should be useful:
Punctuating Quotations in Essays
6. At the end of the paper, summarize what you have learned by
doing the research, perhaps letting your reader know which
commentaries answered the questions you had, which gave you
additional insight, which were difficult to understand, etc.
Again, you should use "I."
7.
Include a Works Cited list at the end of the paper, listing all
sources
alphabetically
, using MLA documentation format.
Be sure to list your primary source (the story you are writing
about).
31. You must follow MLA format exactly. If you need help, let me
know. You may wish to pick up a handout at the library or
consult the following website:
MLA Format
Research Documentation Guidelines: English 2328
1.
Include the name of the author and title in a sentence in the text
of the paper, not in parentheses.
The page number should appear in parentheses just after the
quotation. The page number always comes after the quotation
marks and is not preceded by a p.; the period comes after the
parentheses. See example below. Websites and databases
usually don't have page numbers, so you need to include only
the author and title.
Remember that any borrowed material (a quotation, a
paraphrase, a summary, an idea) must have an in-text citation.
Example 1 (In-text citation):
In Ian Watt's excellent biography,
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century
, Watt says that “[n]either Conrad nor Marlow had any faith in
the rationalisations [of the Victorian ethic], but they adhered to
many of the values” (148).
Notice that I have not repeated "Watt" in parentheses before the
32. page number. It is very important not to repeat the author's
name unnecessarily. Doing so is distracting to the reader and
implies that he or she can't remember the name of the author,
even though you have included it at the beginning of the
sentence.
(Imagining yourself as the reader is a good idea.)
Works Cited Entry:
Watt, Ian.
Conrad in the Nineteenth Century.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Print.
Example 2 (In-text citation):
In
Theatre U.S.A: 1665-1957
, the author, Barnard Hewitt, says of Tennessee Williams and
the production of
A Streetcar Named Desire:
"Tennessee Williams had succeeded in investing contemporary
materials with poetry by intensifying the expression of the
suffering of realistically conceived characters" (441).
Notice that there is punctuation after the introduction to the
quotation. In this case, I used a colon; however, depending on
the lead-in, you might use some other mark of punctuation. It's
important to follow normal punctuation rules when using
quotations. Notice also that the ending quotation marks come
before the parentheses and that the period comes after.
Works Cited Entry
:
33. Hewitt, Barnard.
Theatre U.S.A.: 1665-1957
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Print.
2. For your primary source (the story, novel, or play you are
researching), use page numbers only as long as it's clear that
you are quoting from the primary source (and as long as you
have included the author and title in the introduction). The full
citation will appear in the Works Cited list).
The narrator of "The Real Thing" explains his philosophy of
illustration in the following passage:
I liked them [Major and Mrs. Monarch]--I felt, quite as their
friends must have done--they were so simple; and I had no
objection to them if they would suit. But somehow with all their
perfections I didn't easily believe in them. After all they were
amateurs, and the ruling passion of my life was--the detestation
of the amateur. Combined with this was another perversity--an
innate preference for the represented subject over the real one:
the defect of the real one was so apt to be a lack of
representation. I liked things that appeared; then one was sure.
Whether they WERE or not was a subordinate and almost
always a profitless question. (434)
The quotation above is "blocked," which means it is indented 10
spaces from the left margin. Quotations of four lines or more
should be blocked. Notice that there are no quotation marks
around the quotation. Blocking it reveals to the reader that you
are quoting. Also, in a blocked quotation, the period comes
before the parentheses.
34. Examples of Works Cited Entries for primary sources:
Williams, Tennessee.
A Streetcar Named Desire
.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Vol. E. Eds. Nina Baym et al. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 2012.
90-155. Print.
James, Henry. "The Real Thing."
The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Vol. C. Eds. Nina Baym et al. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 2012.
460-76. Print.
Notice that you should include the inclusive page numbers for
the story, novel, or play.
3. Use the following format if you're quoting from a multi-
volume source like
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
,
Contemporary Literary Criticism
,
Twentieth Century Views
, etc.
(Always cite the actual author of a piece, not an editor.)
In-text citation:
35. Lionel Trilling, in "F. Scott Fitzgerald" (from
The Liberal Imagination),
says this about Fitzgerald's writing style: "Even in Fitzgerald's
early, cruder books, or even in his commercial stories, and even
when his style is careless, there is a tone and pitch to his
sentences that suggest his warmth and tenderness, and, what is
rare nowadays and not likely to be admired, his gentleness
without softness" (12).
Works Cited Entry
:
Trilling, Lionel. "F. Scott Fitzgerald."
The Liberal Imagination
. New York: Viking, 1951. Rpt. in
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Collection Of Critical Essays
. Arthur Mizener, ed. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1963. 11-19. Print.
4. If you're using the Internet, follow MLA guidelines by
including the author (if known) and title of the piece, the date
the site was created (if indicated), the http address (optional),
and the date accessed. If the author isn't known, use the title of
the piece (even if it's a simple title like "A Poe Chronology”).
Example:
Colleen Burke, in an article on the Internet, describes
Heart of Darkness
36. as a work that “descends into the unknowable darkness at the
heart of Africa, taking its narrator, Marlow, on an underworld
journey of individuation, a modern odyssey toward the center of
the Self and the center of the Earth.”
Works Cited entry:
Burke, Colleen. “Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A
Metaphor of Jungian Psychology.” 21 March 1998. Web. 17 Oct
2009.
Note: Check guidelines for dates to include. If you know the
date when the site was produced or last revised, include that. If
not, include only the date you accessed the site.
5. If you use a database like Literature Resource Center, follow
this format:
Example (in-text documentation):
Linda Wagner-Martin in
" 'A Pair of Silk Stockings': Overview," comments on the story's
style: "
Chopin's departure from a plot-oriented narrative, to the
emphasis on the inner motivation of her character, was as
important as her abandonment of the details of local color
writing."
Works Cited entry:
37. Wagner-Martin, Linda. " 'A Pair of Silk Stockings': Overview."
Reference Guide to Short Fiction.
Ed. Noelle Watson. 1st ed. St. James Press, 1994. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 17 October 2009.
6. To avoid repeating all of the information about a book with
several essays about your story, you may include one full
reference to the entire book (with the editor) and then cross-
reference the individual essays. Here is an example.
Mizener, Arthur, ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald:
A Collection of Critical Essays
. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall, 1966. Print.
Cowley, Malcolm. “Third Act and Epilogue.” Mizener 64-69.
Print.
Wanning, Andrews. “Fitzgerald and His Brethren.” Mizener 57-
63. Print.
*To access Galenet, go to the
HCCS Library Home Page
, choose Databases by Subject, Literature, and then "Literature
Resource Center." After typing in the author's name, choose
"Criticism" to find articles about your story. Check with me if
you need more information.
Note: You will find information for the citation at the end of the
commentary in LRC, so you don't have to create it yourself.
38. For help with creating the works cited list, check this website:
EasyBib
English 2328: Sample Works Cited List
I am providing this mainly so that you will know what your
Works Cited list should look like. The list should be
alphabetized by the author's last name, double-spaced, and all
lines after the first of each entry should be indented five spaces
(not the first line).
Works Cited
Byles, Melissa. "Richard Ford on Raymond Carver."
The New Yorker
5 Oct. 1998. Rpt. in
Off Course: A Literary Journey
. Web. 22 Aug. 2010.
Cowley, Malcolm. “Third Act and Epilogue.” Mizener 64-69.
Print.
Hewitt, Barnard.
Theatre U.S.A.: 1665-1957
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Print.
James, Henry. "The Real Thing."
The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Vol. E. Eds. Nina Baym et al. 7th ed. New York: Norton, 2007.
429-447. Print.
Mizener, Arthur, ed.
39. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Collection of Critical Essays
. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall, 1966. Print.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. " 'A Pair of Silk Stockings': Overview."
Reference Guide to Short Fiction.
Ed. Noelle Watson. 1st ed. St. James Press,
1994. Literature Resource Center. Web. 22 Aug. 2010.
Wanning, Andrews. “Fitzgerald and His Brethren.” Mizener 57-
63. Print.
Williams, Tennessee.
A Streetcar Named Desire
.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Vol. E. Eds. Nina Baym
et al. 7th ed. New York: Norton, 2007. 2186-2248. Print.