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  • Issue Of Old South Vs New South
    638 words
    Love Always Converge Flannery O' Conner was born in Georgia. Her Southern Catholic views on racial issues and religion gives O' Conner her name. She continued to express her views on the decaying south up to her death". Everything That Rises Must Converge" was one of O'Connor's last pieces before lupus took her life. The title" Everything That Rises Must Converge" is borrowed from the works of Teil hard de Chardin. "The religion philosopher explains the ideal of everything and everyone will be j...
  • North And The Old South Wind
    836 words
    The old winds How the bears got their color Before the earth existed, there was only water and air. The two oldest spirits of this time were the old North wind who ruled the North, and the old South wind who ruled the South. There was one day an argument between the two Old Winds, which started a huge battle between the two oldest spirits. Out of bitterness towards the old South-wind, old North-wind wanted to expand further south and bring with him ice and snow to the warm Southern regions. Out ...
  • South Since 1941 C Vann Woodwards Essay
    504 words
    The two passages I have chosen to compare for my first document analysis are W.J. Cash's essay "The Continuity of Southern History" and C. Vann Woodwards essay "The Discontinuity of Southern History". Both authors agree that summed up in one-word southerners are "extravagant", although they give different illustrations of the same trait. Woodward seems much more passionate and seems to spend much of his time criticizing Cash and less creating his own theories and backing them up. Cash's theories...
  • Miller The Aspect Of Faulkner
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    Faulkner's Faults The Civil War plays a significant part in the literary world of William Faulkner. Although only The Unvanquished and several short stories deal entirely with the wartime period, this time period plays an important part in a number of his novels. Most of Faulkner's fiction deals with the defeat of the South or the effects of that defeat. It is rare to find one of his characters who is not conscious of the Civil War. In Douglas Miller's article he attempts to examine the way in w...
  • Money In The Old South
    361 words
    Mrs. Emily Mrs. Emily is a young lady who grows up in the Old South. Her father chased away many suitors since he believed that no one was good enough for his daughter. Her children, if she had married would have introduced her to the new and modern world and she might have accepted it. However, she never married or had children. She was destined to forever remain a symbol of the Old South. Mrs. Emily symbolizes the Old South in several ways: She paints China, She will not discuss money matters ...
  • Lives In The Past Meets The Future
    534 words
    This story is set in the south where Faulkner contrasted the past with the present. The first hint of this is his comparison of the death of Miss Emily to that of a fallen monument. This comparison sets the scene for the reader to look and see how the new meets the old in the south. The description of her house in the second paragraph "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps– an eyesore among eyesores' (p. 71) is a perfect example of what th...
  • Care Of Stupen
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    believe that the Stupen experience embodied the sense of defeat that most southerners felt after the war. The basic ideals and spirit of southern life was destroyed by the war and never to be fully restored again. Their lives were turned upside down by the war and afterwards they did not even have the solace of their previous social status to return to. During the war many people were faced with unthinkable hardships on every level. The myth of the helpless southern woman was replaced by the ima...

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