Reflecting on your Reading

Running Head : REFLECTING ON YOUR READING

A Journey Through the Conflicted Heart

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Reading is most probably one of the most helpful communication skills of a person . It develops a lot of internal things within a person - the critical thinking skills , creativity , imagination , etc . Because of reading , a person finds him- or herself through journeys unimaginable However , there is such a thing as critical reading and mere reading to the point of just seeing the words . This will look at a

perspective of critical reading . When a person does critical reading , he or she reflects and makes assumptions based on the thinks he or she has read . In this reading of William Faulkner 's A Rose for Emily assumptions are based on what has been read

A Journey Through the Conflicted Heart

William Faulkner wrote of a Southern genteel era in conflict with human desires and a changing world . It is a South so misplaced , so alien in the era of iPod , MTV , and Facebook . A Rose for Emily seemed to be one of those Southern stories wherein one can learn old truths about traditions and historical pasts like in the movies The Story of Bagger Vance or The Yaya Sisterhood . It is macabre with a twist so unexpected that it does not register until after several blinks of the eye

Miss Emily begins as a tragic victim of her father 's rigid pride . One could not help but picture frailty itself , but...