“A Rose is a rose is a rose”, is a quote written from the American born author Gertrude Stein. Stein was best known for her “modernist writings, her extensive art collecting, and literary salon in 1920s Paris.” She was born in the the United States and moved to Europe at a later age where she did most of her writing. Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania on February 3rd, 1874. She was the the youngest out of five children. Her family was considered to be a upperclass German-Jewish-American family. Her father, Daniel Stein, was a wealthy Businessman with real estate holding and was the director of San Francisco's street car lines, the Market Street Railway. Her mothers name was Amelia Stein. German and English were the the two A little while after he left, she decided to follow him. Eventually they both lived in England and soon after Paris where Leo decided to follow he dream of becoming an artist. Together they bought an apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus behind the Jardin de Luxembourg on the Left Bank of the Seine. Gertrude and Leo both knew that “Paris was the the place suited us who were to create the twentieth century art and literature” (Gilbert A. Harrison, Gertrude Stein’s America). In 1907, Stein met Alice B Toklas who was a wealthy San Franciscan who would become her lifelong companion and secretary they lived together at the same place that she and her brother Leo bought when they moved to Paris. This apartment would later become an prominent art gallery where many of todays famous painter works was displayed, most notably, Pablo Picasso. If aspiring artists wanted to have their work be put on display then they could possibly have hung at Steins salon. It was said that if you knew someone who knew someone, you would be welcome enough. Artists like Henri Matisse, Erza Pound, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, and once again Pablo Picasso. Stein took a liking to Picasso’s work and was known to have quite a few of his pieces on display at her salon. Picasso appreciated it very much that he even painted a portrait of Stein in 1906 which she also included in her salon. They were actually very good
Throughout the life of Emily Grierson, she remains locked up, never experiencing love from anyone but her father. She lives a life of loneliness, left only to dream of the love missing from her life. The rose from the title symbolizes this absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her.
John Steinbeck was born February 27th, 1902. He was born in Salinas, California. Steinbeck’s father was a hardworking man, and he worked several jobs to support John and his siblings. These jobs included managing a flour plant, and serving as a treasurer. His mother Olive Hamilton Steinbeck was a schoolteacher. Steinbeck had three sisters. He had a pretty happy childhood growing up for the most part Steinbeck was not the most outgoing person. He was really smart but he was shy....
This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing but stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words…-The Great Gatsby, 14
Felix Mendelssohn was brought up in a wealthy family, with a strong Jewish faith, and was one of four children. He was born in 1809, in Hamburg, Germany, and died in Leipzig, Germany in 1847. Soon after he and his sister Fanny were born, the family moved to Berlin, to elude the French troops of Napoleon. While in Berlin, the Mendelssohn family experienced some wealth; because of this Felix was able to encounter many artists, musicians, philosophers, and writes. By the young age of thirteen, Mendelssohn was an adept composer.
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet Transylvania on September 30, 1928. Prior to being taken under the Nazi 's rule, he decided to pursue Religious studies,as his father did. He grew up with his parents and three sisters. in the year 1944, when Elie was 15 years old,
Born on February 27th, 1902 in Salinas, California John Ernst Steinbeck II came into a very happy lifestyle family. Steinbeck really enjoyed the fertile land in salinas, and he grew to appreciate it as he grew older. Steinbeck grew up with two older sisters (Elizabeth and Esther) and younger sister (Mary). His father was the treasurer of Monterey County and his mom was a school teacher. Steinbeck when growing up with his family was a part of the middle class which they lived comfortably. When it came to writing later most of his influences came from his family. His only real inspiration came from himself or others including family and friends helped him strive in his writings. He later wrote his first popular book, "Tortilla Flat", on how he noticed that many people were migrant laborers when we was growing up. Steinbeck went to high school in his hometown of Salinas, California and graduated in 1919. "He then attended Stanford University intermittently between the years 1919 to 1925, but he never received a degree."( "John Steinbeck - Biographical") "Steinbeck worked as a laboratory assistant and farm laborer to support himself through six years of study at Stanford University, where he took only those courses that interested him without seeking a degree." ("John Steinbeck Biography.")
My reaction to Alice Walkers piece ARoseLily@ was quite interesting and confusing. Interesting in the way she wrote the wedding ceremony different from the main story. Confusing because you, the reader, have to read really carefully to see what the plot was. Overall, once I got the hang of reading her style it became clear to me how she felt and what the story was that she was trying to introduce. There was definitely a lot of symbolism in the story. First of all, the name A Roselily @ means A beauty and perfection, happiness and grace and lily means purity, and guiltless@(Symbolism in literature pg.3)
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. As a boy, he grew up in a farming community, and worked on ranches. At the age of fourteen, he decided that he wanted to become a writer. He went to Stanford University, but w...
Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Leonard's father, Samuel immigrated to America in 1908 at the age of sixteen from the Russian province of Volhynia where he came from a long line of rabbis. (Gradenwitz 1987: 20)
Stein was born on February 3, 1874 into upper middle class surroundings in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. When she was 3 years old the family moved to Vienna and then on to Paris before returning to America in late 1878. Gertrude and her brother Leo became very close although he was two years her senior. They found like interests and became devoted allies through much of their early lives. Stein was eight years old when she made her first attempt at writing. Reading became an obsession for her beginning with Shakespeare and books on natural history.[2] In school she was fascinated with the structuring of sentences. She once said, “"I suppose other things may be more exciting to others...I like the feeling the everlasting feeling of sentences as they diagram themselves.[3]"
John Steinbeck was born in 1902, the 22nd of February, and he was the third child. His Father was John Ernst Steinbeck and his mother Olive Hamilton. In his young years his family lived in Salinas California. His family struggled a good amount with his father being unemployed
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the town of Sighet in Transylvania, which is located in Romania. His parents, Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig had three other children not including Elie. The three other siblings were his sisters Hilda, Bea, Tsiporah. Wiesel and his family primarily were an Orthodox Jewish family. When he was very young he started to study Hebrew and the Bible. He mostly focused on his religious studies. According to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, “He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz.” During the time they spent at Auschwitz, Elie’s mother and younger sister didn’t make it, but his two older sisters were fortunate enough to survive. “Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945” (The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity).
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, the narrative voice is a detached witness to the events in Miss Emily’s life. This is portrayed through its limited omniscience, its shifting viewpoint and its unreliability.
Author Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic. Writer Franz Kafka grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. Kafka had a difficult relationship with both of his parents. His mother, Julie, was a devoted homemaker who lacked the intellectual depth to understand her son's dreams to become a writer. Kafka's father, Hermann, had a forceful personality that often overwhelmed the Kafka home. He was successful in business, making his living retailing men's and women's clothes. Kafka's father had a profound impact on both Kafka's life and writing. He was a tyrant of sorts, with a wicked temper and little appreciation for his son's creative side. Much of Kafka's personal struggles, in romance and other relationships he believed, came in part from his complicated relationship with his father. In his literature, Kafka's characters were often coming up against an overbearing power of some kind, one that could easily break the will of men and destroy their sense of self-worth. Kafka seems to have derived much of his value directly from his family, in particular his father. For much of his adult life, he lived within close proximity to his parents. In 1923, he...
Robert Lee Frost, commonly known as Robert Frost, was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874, to William Prescott and Isabelle Moodie Frost. Frost was their first born child. His father, William Prescott was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard, heavy drinker and became a journalist and politician in California. After Frost’s father later died of tuberculosis in 1885, him and his mother moved to New Hampshire (Greiner 96). His mother was a school teacher, and she also taught Frost. She allowed him to skip classes and be lazy, which later affected his preparation for college. He had one sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger. Frost’s high school days at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts were crucial due to the fact he starte...