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Discussions in class were open and democratic. We frequently arranged our desks in a circle to stimulate discussion and include the shier members of the class. In fact, there were several students that barely said a word in other classes who would launch into impassioned analyses of the Faulkner text. Dr. Lavin brought literature to life. I expect that university literature professors do the same, encouraging their students to relish what they read rather than to read it just to pass an exam.
On the brink of my university education, I freely admit that I expect a lot from the University of Oregon. At the very least I expect to be drawn into my classes the way I was in Dr. Lavin's. I expect to be introduced to points-of-view I never would have considered on my own. Most importantly, I expect to encounter different worldviews that expand my understanding of the world and help me eliminate biases...
Lavin helped her students become more open-minded because we were able to think for ourselves. Instead of reading what other people had to say about authors like Faulkner or books like the Sound and the Fury, we students would offer our own insights into character's choices or the author's story crafting. I imagine that even large courses at the University of Oregon encourage independent thought.
If I do decide to study literature in more depth at the University of Oregon I will have had the most important foundation possible because of my work in Dr. Lavin's class. I also have the mindset and critical thinking tools that are necessary to thrive in a challenging academic environment. I expect that the University of Oregon's faculty possesses the passion that Dr. Lavin does: to teach their students to be creative as well as productive.
Faulkner and Joyce William Faulkner famously said that "The human heart in conflict with itself" is the only topic worth writing about. Several short stories have proven this quote to be true. The narrators of both William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and James Joyce's "Araby" are young men who are facing their first moments where childhood innocence and the adult world are coming into conflict. Both boys, for the text makes it
William Faulkner Call it charisma, call it verve, call it a self-contained personality with a zest for life; any of the aforesaid descriptions seem to fit the bill in describing Caddy, the only member of the Compson family in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to escape the almost self-fulfilling tragic prophecy of a family clearly obsessed with the seemingly more romantic past of its ancestors. With such a personality, it
William Faulkner A renowned novelist, William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897 (The Columbia Encyclopedia). Eight years prior to his birth, his grandfather was killed by an ex-partner in business. William Faulkner was the eldest of the siblings. During his school life, William loved sports and was a quarterback in the football team and his passion for writing poetry existed since he was only 13 years old.
Furthermore, Emily's inability to have a romantic relationship with Homer once again calls attention to the disconnect between Emily's south and Homer's. Instead of becoming one with Homer's new south, Emily kills him and keeps him in her own personal sanctuary in an attempt to preserve not only him, but also life as she thought it should be. Thus, neither as an institution nor as a personal refuge can
Faulkner Stories William Faulkner's short stories were told by an omniscient narrator who probably represented the author, and in plot, characters and symbolism have often been classified of Southern Gothic horror. Certainly his characters were horrors, and often satirical, humorous and bizarre caricatures of the different social classes on the South from the time of slavery to the New (Capitalist) South of the 20th Century. They are often violent, deranged, frustrated,
William Faulkner uses opposition and tension to great effect within his story, "Barn Burning." He explores oppositions like Sarty's blood ties to his father vs. The pull of moral imperative, and decent behaviour to society in general. These oppositions help to create the tension and mood in the story, and serve as a literary device to illustrate his themes of the initiation of the adolescent into adult life, and the