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2. http://www.sparknotes.com/
3. http://www.gradesaver.com/

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 P522
iron-gray
 stands for color of Emily’s hair and her heart.
dust (important)
tarn
tarnished

obs- something negative
Ex: obscure
obstacle
obscene

mute shoes
The man himself lay in the bed.

 P187
William Faulkner
native- A native of a particular country or region is someone who
was born in that country or region.
aboriginal- being or composed of people inhabiting a region from
the beginning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner

 Faulkner is one of the most important writers in both American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

William Faulkner set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County includes The Sound and the fury.
• The Sound and the fury from Macbeth.

Othello
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson, nicknamed "The Juice".
Iago is the murder of Othello.
 Four major tragedies of Shakespeare Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.

“Life’s but a walking shadow” is from Macbeth.

 She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing. — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_and_tomorrow_and_tomorrow

 P187
August name
 faded glory, past glory
an eyesore among eyesores
Colonel Sartoris - A former mayor of Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris absolves Emily of any tax burden after the death of her father. His elaborate and benevolent gesture is not heeded by the succeeding generation of town leaders.

ob- something negative
Ex: obliterated

Negro  Africa American, black American
Movie: The Help












An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

 Test: 1.What is literature?
2. climax