Southern Gothic Literature
This is one reason why "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is an example of Gothic literature.
What is the characters are grotesque/evil?
This character from "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" has one arm and evil intent.
Who is Mr. Shiftlet?
This is the object on the Crater farm that Shiftlet wants.
What is the car?
This event opens the story "A Rose for Emily."
What is Miss Emily's funeral?
This is the region of America where both stories are set.
What is the South?
This is one reason why "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is NOT an example of Gothic literature.
What is the setting? (It is set in the sunny south.)
This character from "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is a child-like thirty-year-old woman who is deaf and helpless.
Who is Lucynell Crater?
This is why Shiftlet agrees to marry Lucynell.
What is for the car and money?
This is what is sprinkled all over Miss Emily's smelly property.
What is lime?
What is irony?
Because of this, Flannery O'Connor, author of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," usually wrote about misfits or people who are mentally/physically challenged.
What is she was chronically ill with lupus?
This character from "A Rose for Emily" refuses to pay her taxes and falls in love with a Yankee.
Who is Miss Emily Grierson?
This is what Shiftlet does to Lucynell after they get married.
What is abandon her at a diner?
This is what Miss Emily buys at the pharmacy.
What is arsenic?
This literary device describes Mr. Shiftlet telling the waiter that Lucynell is a hitchhiker and then later abandoning her.
What is foreshadowing?
This is one of many reasons why "A Rose for Emily" is an example of Gothic literature.
What is her murdering of Homer Barron and keeping his corpse in her home?
This character from "A Rose for Emily" remits Miss Emily's taxes after her father's death.
Who is Colonel Sartoris?
This is Mrs. Crater's most prized possession that Shiftlet takes from her.
What is her daughter?
This is what is found on the pillow next to Homer Barron's corpse.
What is a piece of iron-gray hair?
This literary device, used often in "A Rose for Emily," describes going back in time to provide insight into Miss Emily's life.
What is a flashback?
Examples of this type of character in Southern Gothic literature are Shiftlet and Emily Grierson.
What is grotesque?
This character from "A Rose for Emily" courts Miss Emily but never marries her. His fate is death.
Who is Homer Barron?
This is what happens to Shiftlet at the end of the story.
What is he drives into a thunderstorm?
This is why Miss Emily's house smells so bad.
What is the corpse of Homer Barron lying in her bed?
This term describes a character who becomes bizarre or twisted, usually through some kind of obsession; examples are Shiftlet and Emily Grierson.
What is a grotesque character?