The Hollow Pumpkin Patch: A Short Story

Miss Emily has had problems keeping a lover.  Once she falls in love with Homer Barron, she finds out he does not marry anyone.   The big revealing secret after Miss Emily passes is that she murdered Homer to keep control over him.  

Telling the story in an irregular order, Faulkner develops a sense of suspense by adding details to the mysterious Miss Emily. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care: a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (451). The reader learns that Miss Emily had been seen as an eccentric woman that the people of the town had to take care of and overlook, ultimately overlooking her as a suspect in Homer Barron’s disappearance. Miss Emily often disappears into her house for months and years at a time,

Lucy picked out a book that intrigued her,and she took it to her home without her father 's permission. Later that night, once they got home, Lucy rushed through her dinner and took the book out from its hiding place. Lucy ran her hand on top of the cover and laid on her bed opening it to

Susie lies on the ground motionless with a big, older man lying on top of her. She could feel the sweat coming from her and Mr. Harvey. She could here Mr. Harvey grunting, and she could taste the sweat and fabric coming from the knitted hat that he stuffed in her mouth. In this scene, a 14-year old girl named Susie Salmon was murdered unexpectedly. Her somewhat unknown neighbor Mr. Harvey led Susie into this hutch and told her he just wanted to show it to her (Sebold 8). The strongest symbols that help develop the story The Lovely Bones are the cornfield. The sketchbook, and the gazebo.

Another important trope in the story is symbols. There are plenty of them including the old house as a representation of stable and permanent Emily 's lifestyle, pocket watch that indicates the time Emily lives in and the moment of wedding that is stopped, untouched wedding suits covered with dust as a symbol of unresolved love, a strand of gray hair on the pillow as a sign of eternal feelings, etc. Moreover, such powerful symbols of the story as lime and arsenic used to kill the person and then stop the smell from corpse 's decomposing are allegory for people 's attitude towards problems. Instead of investigating the source of smell and face the issue, they tend to get rid of the consequences that bother them and remain not touched by the complication. Such behavior can be also viewed as a sort of alienation, when people try to ignore the individual who refused to socialize with them.

Emily’s life was always full of seclusion and she refuses to let her first love go. The townspeople uses many different people to influence Emily to end the affair. When the northerner refuses to marry her to satisfy everyone, she uses her idolized freedom of the town to her advantage and murders her lover. Therefore, everyone was happy, she does not have to live without him and the townspeople believe she obeyed their wishes by ending the affair.

It was Christmas when Mrs. Whitestone dropped some cooking pans on the ground. She didn’t think anything of the quiet house. Then Whitestone’s grandmother called for Mrs. Whitestone. When she went in there, Whitestone wasn’t crying. She was sitting happily playing with her toys.

The town's clergy now send people to spray for a horrible smell that is coming threw her home. Months go on after that, and all they see is the old Negro coming through the door. We can make the assumption that Emily no longer has the desire for other human contact and wants to stay in the "old southern times. " After much time has passed, the entire town goes to check on Ms. Emily. When they get the door open, we see the old Negro walk out the door and never turn around.

She denied the truth, also, she sleeps next to the smelling corpse at home for three days. After buried the body, Emily cut the connections with the

She also hid Homer’s body after she killed him. Emily wanted to keep him with her forever and did not let him say no to marrying her. She bought clothes and a bathroom set to

Emily put everything back but took the drawing book and really looked at it and found pictures Hannah had drawn and notes she 'd written . Emily went back to her mom 's closet to read the reports and she went to the

There were no nearby quilt shops or fabric stores in the area. Mary Jane was determined to quilt, so she bought sheets at the local discount store, cut them up, and sewed them together. She learned her basic quilting skills by observing her great grandmother create quilts, for the rooming house she owned. On each of the beds was a handmade quilt for the travelers that stayed there. Mary Jane, instinctively, knew she

The piece; Following the Pumpkin Patch Honor Code, was published on November 29, 2010, for NPR’s, This I Believe segment. , the writer of the essay, Susan is from Bueche, Louisiana. During this casting she tells of a situation dealing with trust. This essay will summarize Susan

They ask her questions. The detective have asked Mary if they can look around for the murder weapon. When they have searched the entire house they came back and Mary asks them for a drink. They all sip a bit of whiskey. One of the sheriff 's (Jack), tells Mary her oven is on with the lamb (the murder weapon) inside.

As she watches a little boy smash butterflies on the wall with a hammer, she sees a caterpillar crawling by. She must have known what was coming next because she picks the caterpillar up and runs away. Once in another room, she comes across a