I do believe that Faulkner had racial prejudice.  I do believe that he really did not like the black people but he did not wanted society to know.  In one way I think that he was brought up that way and he could not change the way that he was and that society had the same point of view that he did.  Some of his stories talk about the “NEGRO PEOPLE” as he calls them.  So I think that he calls them like that because back in those days the black people were called like that.

Some people may read his papers and think different things about it but in my opinion I think that we was kind of racial in his stories.

Yesterday the class read “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and I found it pretty interesting.  I believe that “A Rose for Emily” is a unique story.  The story goes something like this:

            It starts out with Emily death and the story said that everyone in town went to her funeral.  But, that the woman mostly went to the funeral because they had a curiosity about her house. 

            After that the story goes back to when she was alive and then a guy comes into town and starts a relationship with Emily.  Everyone in town thought that they were engage and that they were going to be married.  Then she bought stuff that had the guy’s initials on it and then everyone thought that they were already married.  It talk about how she bought some poison and that what made me think that she killed her husband.

            After, she died the town went to her house and it says that they found the guy or husband’s body in the bed right next to were she laid dead.  That is how I new that Emily had some kind of mental problem.

Male/Female Relationships

        There are different kinds of male and female relationship with different people.  In the following paragraphs I am going to try to explain in my own words about the female and male relationship that I read about in class.  I am going to try to describe a diverse kind of love, a dominant, a pure love, a wounding and a communicative relationship.

        In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” the princess and her lover had a diverse kind of love for each other.  “Often had she seen, or imagined that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these admirations where perceived and even returned”.  “How and then she would seen them talking together; it was but for a moment or two, but much can be said in a brief space; it may have been on most unimportant topics; but how could she know that?”  “Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it.  The first two quotes make you realized that the princess was very jealous and that all of the time she was there she was thinking of all the things that her lover and the one gorgeous girl would do.  Jealousy is one of the things that make them have such a diverse relationship.  On the last quote it shows how the lover trusted her by opening the door without hesitation.
        In the story “The lottery” Bill and Tessie there was a
dominant relationship.   “I think that we ought to start over, Mrs. Hutchison said.”  “(Ready, Bill?)Mr. Summers asked, and Bill Hutchinson, with one quick glance around at his wife and children, nodded.”  “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.”  In the first two quotes it shows how Tessie wanted something to happen but Bill didn’t even look at her and went ahead and finish the lottery.  The last quote shows how he takes the paper out of Tessie hand by forcing it out which shows that he was the one in charge of the relationship.
        In the story “A Haunted House” the dead old couple had a pure love relationship.  “From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple”.  (“Here we slept” she says.  And he adds, “Kisses without number.”) “Walking, I cry (“Oh, it this your buried treasure?  The light in the heart”)” The following quote show the pure love of the dead old couple.  The first two quotes that I put where because the dead old couple talked to themselves with so much love.  The last quote I wrote because they finally found what they where looking for the light in the heart.  When I think about the light in the heart it makes me think about love because love gives people light.

        In the story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Ellen and George had a wounding relationship.  “For sixty years she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head when she had got of Doctor Harry and was trying to rest a minute.”   “Don’t let your wounded vanity get the upper hand on you.  Plenty of girls get jilted.” “Find him and be sure to tell I forgot him.”  In the first quote it talks about how she prayed and prayed for sixty years to forget about him and how George jilted her.  I think that it had to be kind of deep to remember it for sixty years. In the second quote it shows how she tells herself she has to forget about the jilted and that is not something really bad that many people get jilted, that she is not the only one.  The last quote talks about how she forgive George for what he did to her but, I think that she was being a little bit sarcastic because she keeps on talking about it.

        In the story “The Chrysanthemum” Elisa and the Henry had a communicative relationship.   “Henry, who where those men you where talking to?”  “Why, sure that’s what I came to tell you.”  “Good, she said”.  The following quote show why I think that Elisa and Henry had a communicative relationship because they shared information very well.  They did not show that they had a bad relationship at all which means that they had very good communicative skills.

        Male and female relationships are quite different in all of the stories that I read in class.  The thing that kind of made a connecting with all of them it that they were all couple relationship.  The stories that I think mostly went together was “A Haunted House” and “The Chrysanthemum” because they sort of had or have that loving relationship.  All of the other stories did not really connect in any kind of way.

            I read the story of “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck last week.  “The Chrysanthemums” was about a girl that liked her garden.  Then a guy came and told her that he wanted the chrysanthemum.  Then she left and when she came back to the garden the chrysanthemum was on the floor and the pot was gone.  The man toke the pot and left the chysanthemum there.

            I really didn’t like this story.  I believe that this story was very boring.  It kind of had no point.  I bet it meant something to the author but to me it meant nothing.

          Fairness is based on your own opinion.  How you where brought up to be and the people you have been around.  The past two weeks I read “The Lottery” and “The lady, or the Tiger”; these two short stories have different points about fairness.  Fairness is not something that you can be wrong in it is based on your own judgment or opinion.

            “The lottery” was about a ritual made in a small town of about 300 people.  That ritual was that the head of the household would draw a paper and then each person in the household would pick out a paper and then who ever got the paper would be stoned to death.  This to me seems to be unfair because what order would you go in and will the first person have a better chance not to get it and the last person would not have a big chance because he only had to pick the last piece of paper there was.  In the town it seems like it was something normal but I guess it would have been if you were brought up like that seen your childhood.

            In the “The Lady, or the Tiger” is there was somebody that was committed a crime or that was thought to have something to do with it was put in the arena.  In the arena they had the choice of two doors in one there was a tiger which would kill the person in the arena and in the other there was a lovely woman waiting for the man and that would marry him that instant.  I think this was kind of fair because the person in the arena had the choice of which one the person wanted to pick.  It was a 50/50 chance to safe yourself.  I think it had to do with the luck of the person.

            I think that everybody have different point in what seems fair or unfair.  I think that whatever people think about this story is right.  In what you choice there can never be something wrong with them.  Fairness depends on the time that you are in and the morals you grow up with.