BOOK I – THE NATIVE’S RETURN 1. The Drunken Beggar on Horseback It was the hour of twilight on a soft spring day towards the end of April in the year of Our Lord 1929, and George Webber leaned his elbows on the sill of his back window and looked out at what he could…
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A Rose for Emily – William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner I WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant–a combined gardener and…
Draw A Map of Your Childhood Neighborhood – Class 3 Comp 2
Be prepared to share in class the floor plan of your house and your descriptions of the things in that house. In Soldier’s Home, the narrator said that he needed some maps. I believe that Hemingway mentioned the need for maps because Krebs felt lost. To better anchor ourselves for an upcoming writing assignment, we…
Flies on the Butter by Wynona Judd – Class 1 – Class Schedule Comp II 2022
Flies On The Butter (You Can’t Go Home Again) Wynona Judd Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter A hole in the screen door big as your fist And flies on the butter Mama baking sugar cookies, we were watching cartoons I heard her holler from the kitchen “Which one of you youngen’s wants to…
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things by Robert Frost – Class 2a
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things Robert Frost – 1874-1964 The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of the house that stood, Like a pistil after the petals go. The barn opposed across the way, That would have joined the house…
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca DAPHNE DU MAURIER ISBN U 582 419379 First published in the Longman Simplified English Series 1957 Contents Introduction V Chapter 1 Maxim de Winter 1 Chapter 2 Manderley 7 Chapter 3 The Cottage in the Bay 11 Chapter 4 The Shadow of Rebecca 19 Chapter 5 Rebecca’s Room 23 Chapter 6 The Fancy-Dress Dance…
Songs As Literature – Focus on House As Theme
Flies On The Butter (You Can’t Go Home Again) Wynona Judd Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter A hole in the screen door big as your fist And flies on the butter Mama baking sugar cookies, we were watching cartoons I heard her holler from the kitchen “Which one of you youngen’s wants to…
Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway – Focus on Setting. Character, and Themes in Literature
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier’s Home” (1925) Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the…