Miss Emily’s house once represented pride and tradition, but over time it became a symbol of decay and isolation. Describe a place that holds deep memories for you—positive or negative—and explain how it reflects part of who you are or how you’ve changed over time.

 Prompt: Miss Emily’s house once represented pride and tradition, but over time it became a symbol of decay and isolation. Describe a place that holds deep memories for you—positive or negative—and explain how it reflects part of who you are or how you’ve changed over time.

Prompt Response:

Most of my childhood I had lived in that apartment with my family, for more than 7 years we lived there and it was time to move. That place held many positive and negative memories for me as I grew up, so many that I had grown attached to them. It reflects how I grew up to be as a person, learning many things and how I had interacted with people at the time, those who I don't speak to anymore.

Summary:

Today we used the entire class time to read the text "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, on page 651, with Mr. Rease. It was about this old lady who was called Emily, in the beginning the town had a funeral for her and as we go along the story we will see how she was when she was alive in the town. We read that her house stood out the most and that she has this black American servant, we also read that he barely left the house when her father died and when he lover left. In the story Emily had gotten complaints about the smell on her house or about other things.

Reflection:

I learned that this text is quite easy to understand, nothing too complicated, it just needs attention and understanding from the readers. I also learned that I liked it when there was an audio reading of the text for us, more than people taking turns to read with different tones.