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You will notice this story is not told in chronological order. There is a reason for that. After reading it, make sure you address this reason in your essay. For this essay you will do a timeline (typed) in chronological order on the important events in Emily’s life.
Do NOT use the internet or any outside resources for this assignment.
You will only use information found in the story itself. Use many details and quotations from the story (especially in relation to what even happened in what year or things measures in days or weeks from other events. If I were doing this assignment (and I have) I would do the following:
1. Read the story.
2. Figure out the year Emily was born and died.
3. What event listed in the story happened Emily at what age or year?
4. Note any measurement of time mentioned in the story. Use MLA in text “quotations” each time a point of time is mentioned. For example, here are passages from the story:
“See Colonel Sartoris.” (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) So SHE vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before…” (Page 999). “That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart–the one we believed would marry her –had deserted her” (1001).
I have done this assignment, so you will be held to my standard. To do it correctly and in detail it should take you several hours.
Type a 3-5 page timeline. The conclusion will be your character analysis over Emily. Explain in your opinion events in her life that might have contributed to why she did what she did. Give specific details and page numbers from the story to back up your hypothesis. It must be in MLA style, style 12 Times New Roman font.
I have attached a copy of “A Rose for Emily” which might help you with your timeline. Click on this link to download Word Document:
A Rose for Emily.docxDownload A Rose for Emily.docx
You can use this copy to locate when time is mentioned in the story easier, and copy and paste that information into your timeline. For your timeline, make sure you put it in MLA style as far as the header, heading and Works Cited, but you can use the time examples as bullet points as you put the story in chronological order.
* For all essays in this class we use the MLA examples on the OWL:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/Links to an external site.
See this MLA sample essay on the OWL: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.htmlLinks to an external site.
Please look at this sample essay and use it as a model for your future essays: Your entire essay including the heading, header and page numbers should be TNR font size 12 and double spaced, just like the sample. Points will be deducted for not using this style. I do this so that you gain experience in following this particular example, and for me to have a consistent sample to evaluate your attention to detail in following the instructions.
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