“I definitely learned that I should never sleep on the top bunk ever again, or I might kill someone next time!” Emily exclaimed laughing, yet she was still immensely worried about her brother, Jacob, who was waiting in the emergency room on the fourth day of their family vacation. That family week-get-away began as a blissful, exciting time to spend with each other, but it did end that way. Emily was eight years old and her brother was twelve, and Emily’s parents planned a vacation to head up to Tomahawk, Wisconsin to spend a relaxing week in a wooden cabin. Once they arrived there, in one of the bedrooms there was a wooden bunk bed without any rails on the side, which is an important detail that will come into play later in this story. Anyways, …show more content…
Well, about four days into their vacation, Em thought that it was only fair that she got to sleep at least one night on the top bunk, so she finally convinced her brother to let her! Em’s dreams finally came true… or so she thought! Since there were no rails to stop her, in the middle of the night, Em rolled off the top bunk, and during the process of falling, she elbowed her brother square in the nose! Em and her family had to rush Jacob to the emergency room, and it turned out that his nose was broken. Thinking back on it, Em thought that she should have known better because she walks and talks in her sleep, but she didn’t think of it then. She thought that this was a horrible, tragic comedy that her and Jacob will always live on to laugh about. “Yeah,” said Emily finishing her story, “I would have to say that was the best memory that I’ve ever shared with my older sibling, Jacob, but there is that one time I went to Jamaica. Though, that’s a whole other …show more content…
She stayed in that tropical paradise for five days. During those five exotic days, Emily got the incredible opportunity to swim with the dolphins while she was at Jamaica, at which she stayed for the first 3 days. Then when she went to the Calvin’s Islands, she got to experience swimming with stingrays for the last 2 days. Em absolutely adored swimming with the dolphins. They would glide across the crystal-clear, blue water , while pulling her along too! They were very friendly, attentive, and sweet, and they felt like slippery, smooth rubber. She had an exquisite time swimming with those dolphins. Though, when she left for Calvin's Islands to swim with the stingrays, it was a contradicting experience. She took a boat out to go to the part of the water where you could interact with the stingrays, but Em would not get off that boat. She was literally dragged into the water because she was scared to step on sting ray and get stung. She finally went into the water because she felt guilty with all of this money her grandma spent for her to have this opportunity, and she wasn’t even trying to enjoy it. Once she got off and saw one of the stingray, she bursted into tears and was balling her eyes out. She was absolutely terrified. One of the trainers put a squid on her back so the stingray could attach onto her, and she said that she was a complete wreck. Emily’s
Near the end of the story, after describing Miss Emily’s life, Faulkner catches up to present day where Miss Emily has died. He explains how Emily’s cousins came once they heard of her death and buried her. The cousins all walk into Miss Emily’s room which greeted them with a bitter smell.
She states that she was the only child, out of the five she has total, that was beautiful from the very moment she was born. Emily was smart, “She blew bubbles of sound. She loved motion, loved light, loved color and music and textures. She would lie on the floor in the blue overalls patting the surface so hard in ecstasy her hands and feet would blur.”(Olsen 291). When Emily was eight months old, she needed to stay with a woman downstairs while the narrator looked for a job. Eventually, the narrator had to send Emily to live with her father and his family until she has raised enough money for her fare back. Emily’s father had left because he was scared of becoming poor so her mother was not to happy with this decision. When the narrator finally raised the money for Emily to come home, she had gotten the chicken pox and had to stay home. Once she was healed, she returned immediately. The narrator barely recognizes Emily when comes home. She says she is thin and looks like her father and was now two years old. This means she is old enough to go into nursery school; in order for the narrator to keep her job, she needed to take Emily there. Emily did not like it though, the narrator says “She always had a reason why we should stay home. Momma, you look sick. Momma, I feel sick. Momma, the teachers aren’t there today, they’re sick”.(Olsen
They are the second smartest animal in the world. They nurture their young for most of their lives. They also socialise with any creature, unless they show signs of harm. Dolphins make very popular playmates and will come up to humans for almost anything. They rely on each other to live. They learn quickly and communicate well with one another. God designed dolphins with unique physical features and behaviors in order to glorify Him.
When her father passed away, it was a devastating loss for Miss Emily. The lines from the story 'She told them her father was not dead. She did that for three days,' (Charter 171) conveys the message that she tried to hold on to him, even after his death. Even though, this was a sad moment for Emily, but she was liberated from the control of her father. Instead of going on with her life, her life halted after death of her father. Miss Emily found love in a guy named Homer Barron, who came as a contractor for paving the sidewalks in town. Miss Emily was seen in buggy on Sunday afternoons with Homer Barron. The whole town thought they would get married. One could know this by the sentences in the story ?She will marry him,? ?She will persuade him yet,? (Charter 173).
“I can’t. I can’t go on. It goes so fast. We don’t have time to look at one another”, states Emily after realizing she can not change the memory but rather just watch it pass by. Before returning to the graveyard Emily reflects, overall saying goodbye to the simple things she would miss
“Stone Mattress” is a title story about “how you might murder somebody on a boat in the Arctic and get away with it” as noted by the author, Margaret Atwood, in an interview for the Trillium Book Award of 2015 (“Margaret”). The main character of the short story is a woman named Verna Pritchard, whose life was completely shattered at the age of fourteen when she was raped, impregnated, and slandered by a seventeen year old boy and his best friend (Atwood). Verna went on to marry and kill four men, and she blamed her murderous actions on one of her rapists, Bob Goreham (Atwood 212). After murdering her fourth husband, Verna decided to take a vacation where she
The pirates decided to tie the Dutch Captain up and put him in the cabin with Emily for her to watch. In addition to Emily being injured she now is expected to watch over a man. The narrator claims, “She screamed and screamed: but there was no awakening from this nightmare,” reinforcing our belief that Emily fears men after the incident with Jonsen (174). Also, makes clear that Emily is terrified of the Dutch Captain as well. Captain Jonsen’s mistake was that he left Emily alone with the Dutch Captain defenseless and scared.
After all the tragic events in her life, Emily became extremely introverted. After killing Homer, Emily locked herself in and blocked everyone else out. It was mentioned, “…that was the last time we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time” (628). In fact, no one in town really got to know Miss Emily personally as she always kept her doors closed, which reflects on how she kept herself closed for all those years. Many of the town’s women came to her funeral with curiosity about how she lived, as no one had ever known her well enough to know. This was revealed at the beginning of the story when the narrator mentioned, “the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant… had seen in the last ten years”(623). Everyone in town knew of her but did not know her because she kept to herself for all those years.
During the summer of Edna's awakening, the sea's influence increases as she learns how to swim, an event which holds much more significance that her fellow vacationers realize. “To her friends, she has accomplished a simple feat; to Edna, she has accomplished a miracle” (Showalter 114). She has found a peace and tranquility in swimming which gives her the feeling of freedom. The narrator tells us that as she swims, "she seem[s] to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself" (Chopin 74). She sees the freedom t...
Miss Emily does not go out for some time after her father’s death until she meets
Emily father was highly favored in the town. Faulkner writes in his Short Story Criticism, “The Griersons have always been “high and mighty,” somehow above “the gross, teeming world….” Emily’s father was well respected and occasionally loaned the town money. That made her a wealthy child and she basically had everything a child wanted. Emily’s father was a very serious man and Emily’s mind was violated by her father’s strict mentality. After Emily’s father being the only man in her life, he dies and she find it hard to let go of him. Because of her father, she possessed a stubborn outlook on life and how thing should be. She practically secluded her self from society for the remainder of her life.
Emily had no extended exposure to the world outside of her hometown. Besides the one trip she took to Philadelphia (which was only due to her eye problems) and occasional trips to Washington and Boston.
Emily is only described when she is late in her life and then only as being like a "skeleton" in an "obese" body and looking "bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water". Here, Faulkner is using simile in his description of Emily to foreshadow the skeletal remains of Homer, her lover, who is found dead later. Miss Emily is not seen for years after the disappearance of Homer. When she is finally seen, she is described as being fatter than before and with her hair beginning to turn gray. Her hair continues to turning gray until it becomes "pepper and s...
Emily’s father’s death was a major tragedy for Emily. It seems as if she was in denial of his death. Faulkner explains, “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead.” So Emily would not admit that her father had died. After she accepted his death, she had to endure life without a father. This must have been terribly hard, but she endured it. Many people also attempted to help Emily
Dolphins are well known for their agility and playful behavior in the wildlife of all the oceans in the world. They have many characteristics, and also there are a variety of different types and kinds of dolphins, which make them very intelligent creatures. Dolphins are smart marine mammals and great swimmers. They are known to be very friendly to humans and other wildlife creatures, dolphins often display a playful attitude which makes them popular to human nature and the culture. They can be seen jumping out of the water,riding waves, play fighting and occasionally interacting with people swimming in the water. Dolphins love hanging along the sea shores of all beaches around the coast, where it is warm and tropical(Fun dolphin facts).Dolphins are believed to be the most intelligent animals on earth