Refrences

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/25-writers-who-changed-the-world/
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/Great-Authors-William-Faulkner.pg_00.html

http://www.shmoop.com/william-faulkner/http://www.biography.com/people/william-faulkner-9292252

http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-092503-faulkner.html

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/william-cuthbert-faulkner-3198.php

My reflection

Where do I begin, I guess I can say English has never been my subject. I mean English is my first language you would expect me to love it right, well your wrong. I always struggled with writing and poems forget it I was horrible. My professor were never really helpful, which made me hate the topic even more. English requires a lot of focus, and reading two things that are very hard for me. When I got into college I knew English was one of those mandatory classes and you could imagine how thrilled I was about that. I knew to graduate I had to take the class, and guess what pass as well. So let me get this straight I have to take my worst subject and you want be to get a C or better to pass, or no what did I get into.

So my first semester I had to take English 101, and I was mad and scared. All my friends told me about all the readings and papers I would have to write and I knew It was going to be a long semester. Luckily enough I had a great professor who was so engaging and funny that I made the class a lot more enjoyable. I started to see I did have potential as a writer, I just had to practice. Later into the class I was realizing my vocabulary was growing and I was becoming a strong writer. My professor always gave me positive critics and that made all the difference. The class was defiantly challenging but surprisingly I came out of the class with a B+ can you believe it, I know I couldn't either. After that class I was ready for a break, so that's what I did. I took a semester off and did a internship with Disney, my favorite place in the whole world. I forgot about school and stress and just enjoyed my experience. I knew it could not last forever and I would have to return back to school.

This January I enrolled back into school and I Knew after English 101 came English 102. So I just picked a random English 102 class and hoped for the best. I am happy I got lucky. Professor Candia was a amazing professor who opened my eyes to literature and writings in ways I didn't even think. She made reading and interrupting poems easy, understandable and believe it or not fun. Our daily blog post made me a better writer and allowed me to explore my writing more. I am not going to say I loved writing the essays but I do appreciate them because I have grown so much as a writing. This blog took up a lot of time and gave me headaches but I can honestly say I enjoyed writing it and speaking about my experiences and learning more about American literature.

I will always appreciate both my professors because they helped be become the writer I am today. If you are like me give English a try its not all that believe me I would not lie to you.

Faulkner's impact on American literature today

William Faulkner is consider one of American's literatures greatest writers. He was a modernist, historian and Sociologist that attacked topics that society need to understand. He  is known for capturing the raw beauty of the rural South in all its dark complexity. While his sprawling verse and habit of knotting together past, present and future has overwhelmed some critics, others have responded to the demands of his writing. He made readers open their mind to creativity and look deeper into societies issues. Faulkner had short stories and sketches published in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. He won Noble prices and other awards based on his writings. William Faulkner tackled nearly every aspect of life—from the mundane to the sensational—in the American South. One of the most highly regarded novelists of the twentieth century, Faulkner was a brilliant, innovative, and notably eccentric man with a taste for whiskey (Faulkner began to drink heavily at the age of seventeen) and fragmented narratives. Throughout his life, Faulkner was something of a misfit, notorious for his haughtiness and his tendency to invent stories about himself. Faulkner wrote in different styles and let his creativity run while and I think that's what made all the difference. Today Faulkner is still considered on of American's greatest writer, poet and story telling because he was so raw and open and dint listen to critics.
http://www.shmoop.com/william-faulkner/http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/Great-Authors-William-Faulkner.pg_00.htmlhttp://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-092503-faulkner.html
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/25-writers-who-changed-the-world/

A Rose for Emily

A Rose For Emily written by William Faulkner was Faulkner's first published short story in a national Magazine. This story is taken placed in a fictional city in Mississippi based on Faulkner's place of residents. Faulkner said the reason behind the title was a women who had a tragedy and nothing could be done about it and you pitted her and this was a salute to a women you wanted to hand a rose to.  A Rose for Emily tells the story of Emily Grierson's death and life. This story explains Faulkner's idea of social class and new verse tradition.  The story is divided into Five section and explores the social classes of that town, authority and jealousy. Faulkner made it hard for the reader to figure out the narrator, but soon we realize that its the town as narrators. Faulkner spoke in a interview that he made it that way to show how our society gossips, and treats one another. He wanted to show history of different generations of men and women and how we have evolved. The story opens with the town being at Emily's funeral, mostly out of noisiness and jealousy.  Most of the town hasn't been to her house in ten years except her servants and wanted to see what all the talk was about. The new generation didn't really like Miss Emily because she did not have to pay any taxes. Faulkner implies that Emily father took her youth away from her and many look at that and see a connection between Faulkner and Emily. Faulkner's father was a alcoholic and feel to poverty and felt like he had to grow up faster then others. Faulkner describes the house, and uses history and visualization a lot to get his readers engage. In the story the narrators describes Emily as a small, fat women in black making readers believe having money does not take away all your problems. Throughout the short story you start seeing the town people pitted Miss Emily because they realized her family wasn't a superior as they seemed. Many seem this is also a connection to Faulkner because his family was looked as Wealthy but behind close doors they were having problems. Faulkner wanted his readers to see Emily as a human being and maybe that's why her father didn't leave her any money. Faulkner introduces Homer a man who many believe is gay and took advantage of Emily. Some of the towns women just believed she wanted someone to call family. Emily stayed in her home and never really came out. She comes very ill and no longer is seen only through windows. The new generation saw her as dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse. Shortly after she died in a dark, lonely dusty basement.












http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/A_Rose_for_Emily.pdf

Faulkner's inspirations

Faulkner was inspired by

. His Family
. History
. His Environment
. Society
. Charles Darwin
.Friends
. Mississippi
. New Orleans
. Greek Tragedies
. Bible
. Critics

How family impacted Faulkner and his writings

Faulkner was a family man and cherish his family. Family values and what family meant to him strongly impacted his writings and how he wrote. Faulkner experienced two different social class and how society treats one another. He wanted his readers to visualize and understand that society even make then treated individuals different based on social class. Faulkner father taught him how to hunt, fish and be a man. He wrote poems and short stories about family and how a husband should treat his wife, and how a man should be a father. Faulkner married his long time sweet heart Estelle Oldham, but their marriage was not perfect, they wont both suffering alcoholics and had many disagreements and Estelle tried to commit suicide. He started writing fictional stories based on his life, wife and children to explore his feelings. Faulkner stories related to his life, and the challenges of a marriage a working man trying to be a father. Family value sparked a lot of his creative writing pieces including "The Sound and the Fury. He wanted his readers to see what family value meant in the south and how his life was not perfect.

History centered Faulkner's writing

Faulkner was a modernist, historian and sociologist  who wrote about socialist problems. His writings spoke about topics many people didn't feel comfortable about or even wanted to discuss. Faulkner writings always had a common idea or topic of history. He wrote about different races, backgrounds and social classes. Faulkner trained on British and Canadian bases so he took his experiences and put it on paper. Faulkner was well rounded with different cultures, so he looked into and approached the topic of slavery with full force. History about slavery, and what it meant to be a slave, the life style, the challenges and why our society accepted slavery. Faulkner tackled every history, society problem including different social classes, and how society treats individual in those classes, prime example is his short story "A Rose for Emily". He wrote about how he wanted to change History and move forward. He used different narrators in his short stories and plays to portray individuals in History and what was the past, present and what he wants to see in the future. Faulkner looked in a discussed social class issues in great detail because he saw how his family and himself were treated verse other families just based on income. Faulkner wanted his readers to understand and look back at history and see where we came from and where we were going.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/Great-Authors-William-Faulkner.pg_01.html
http://www.shmoop.com/william-faulkner/