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Compare And Contrast A Rose For Emily And The S-Tapes

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Textures are used to layer the story in way that helps reduce the amount of words needed by describing the scenes to get the readers more interested in the story. Both A Rose For Emily and The S- Tapes use several types of textures, specifically big voice versus little voice. The first difference to notice about the two stories is the perspective they are told. They both use first person, but have clear contrasts in how they use the first person point of view. Little voice focuses on the specific details. Little voice an event is described step- by- step with every detail to make the reader feel like they are there. Both these stories do this at certain points. Big voice is an overall theme or emotion to cover a chunk of the story. It is more of a summarization. …show more content…

This means that it is told from the perspective of the whole town. The death of Emily brought the whole town together, but it is not specific who is telling the story. An example of using little voice in A Rose For Emily is when they are having a conversation they describe her as dry and cold and then describe an entire dialogue between her and the Colonel (page 2). Towards the end of the story, time seems to move faster as it describes days, weeks and months go by (page 5). This is an example of big voice because it is showing the same theme for a long period of time. A Rose For Emily uses more big voice than little voice. The story only goes over certain events in her life without describing how she feels or what she is

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