Many of the images and events in "Boys and Girls" have to do with freedom or the lack of it. The narrator defines freedom in a number of situations. In this story, the male world represents freedom while the female world represents confinement. In the narrator's perspective, her mother was confin...

TO ME A HERO IS A PERSONWHO HELPS A LIFE. NOT NECESSARILY SAVE IT...BUT AFFECT IT IN A SPECIAL WAY.TO ME THIS PERSON IS MY FATHER.NO MATTER WHAT I'VE DONEIN THE PAST MY FATHER HAS NEVER GIVEN UP ON MEAND HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN MYCORNER.HE HAS SUPORTED ME WHEN I WAS RIGHT...ANDCORRECTED ME WITH LOVE AND ...

Faulkner portrayed Emily Grierson, not as a murderous madwoman, but as a desperate woman who lost everything. Her father, the only man in her life, kept her from marriage and happiness. Abandoned by her sweetheart and ostracized society after the family fortune was gone and her father died, she spen...

Screaming DeathWhen moving into a house you always believe that you will be safe from the outside world. Unfortunately, on July 17, 2000, my thoughts of being secure in a home completely changed. A reckless boy had driven his car into my house, driving through the kitchen and reaching my bedroom. Al...