The Upstairs Room Essays

A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner's most anthologized stories which reveal grotesque imagery and first-individual plural portrayal to investigate a culture not able to adapt to its own death and rot. A Rose for Emily starts with the declaration of the death of Miss Emily Grierson, an estranged spinster living in the South in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The narrator, who talks in the "we" voice and seems to represent the populace of the town, describes the story of Emily's life

hand. Blood that runs red like the petal of roses. Roses have a very strong aroma and sometimes are used by funeral homes to cover up the smell of decaying bodies. Another way the word rose was used is that the room or tomb that Homer laid in was decorated in a rose color scheme. The room is described as “upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights.” (315) Perhaps the people of the town of Jefferson were looking through rose-colored glasses as they were oblivious to

In the novel, "The Upstairs Room" by Johanna Reiss, conflict between the Germans and the Jews, being the Holocaust, was amplified because it had now turned into a war, also known as World War One. Reiss tells the story of a family of five Jews (Rachel, Sinni, Annie, Mom, and Dad) and the mother is sick but the Germans are slowly starting to invade so they need to find a hiding place before the Germans capture them and it's too late. All the family is split up besides two of the sisters (Annie and

Your mom has told you to go clean your room. You head upstairs and start by picking up all the loose items lying around on the floor. Then you vacuum, followed by taking your laundry down to the washing machine. Finally, you use air freshener to spray your room and make it smell nice. A perfect room! Most people take all the things they have to clean their room for granted, but think about the Medieval Era. What they had was nothing compared to the luxury a large percent of the population has today

seems a bit upset about the things that happened upstairs. When I walked on the ground floor, it smelled like either cotton candy or Cake! It smells so good on the floor! I ran into Michael and Max (020) who was getting ready to go do Greek Life things. I also ran into Peter (017) who forgot his bag in Battelle. I literally did not hear a sound. It is so quiet on the first floor. I think many people left for the weekend. I stopped by Marisa's room (213) and found Rachel Nitchman (214), Kristin (219)

and I said,” Why is this happening to me I can walk upside down!" I yelled "Mom, Dad, where are you?” When I went upstairs I saw all my mom’s books were gone. There was a note saying a leprechaun changed the house, and then there was another note from the leprechaun. The note said, “ If you want your house to be normal again go to your bedroom and find a clue." I went to my room and looked around for a clue. I looked and found a note on the floor that read, “If you want your next clue go to

He said he was upstairs when he heard fighting coming from downstairs. When he came down the stairs he saw his brother standing in the dinning room with a knife in his hand. And his father was standing in the living room with the air rifle, Garrison walked around the table and got between his parents and Christopher. Garrison said he pushed Christopher in the chest in

morning light gently streamed through the window as I got up to put on my clothes. I looked at the ground of my room to find a pair of jeans and an old T-shirt, and begrudgingly put them on as I tried to wake up, and then I looked for my glasses and wallet. After that I managed to get upstairs, and then I got into my car, and went off to work. As I came into the front room of Culligan I saw that the two office workers were abnormally nervous. Their desks which usually have a

there were different categories of dwelling depending upon the wealth and power; palaces for emperors, town houses for wealthy Patricians, country villas for wealthy Romans, and tenements for poor Romans. The Roman Colosseum was humongous with 300 rooms decorated with fine stones and gold leaves on the walls and ceilings. The palaces were equipped with heating, bath and fountains. The Roman Town houses were massive buildings with portico where the windows were glazed with expensive thick glass. Insulae

is as followed: a medical diagnosis of hypertension and left knee osteoarthritis. He is prescribed metoprolol tartrate and spironolactone for his hypertension and he takes ibuprofen for aggravation of the left knee related to frequent trips to the upstairs bathroom. At a recent visit to his primary care physician Milton Larsen stated the following subjective data “Dina gets mad at my cat and takes it out on me.” Milton Larsen’s aging body will go through many physiologic changes, specifically the

the head Ivy." Opening my eyes, still gripping the knife, I look around the kitchen. Dodging cans, bowls, and bottles, I peek around the corner to the living room. Seeing nothing there, I head to the last room downstairs, the laundry room. Realization dawned upon me, my dogs sleep in there. Running at full speed towards the laundry room, I stop at my dad's dead body at the base of the stairs. Quickly squatting down, I stabbed him in the head, just to be safe. The moan is louder now, and I figure

she would give me a puff or two of her powder. I inhaled my wrist and laughed as I remembered the fuzzy puff in my face and choking on powder dust. That’s when I noticed Momaw’s orange quilt lying across her bed. I snatched it up and hid it upstairs. She used to put that quilt out on her bed every winter. Before bedtime, she would get it out and tell me where each piece of cloth came from. This piece from your grannie’s dress, that one from Uncle Norm’s pajamas, that blue piece here came

DRAWING ROOM Without the preoccupation with fortification as the guiding force behind both the exterior and interior of the country’s aristocratic strongholds, these types of structures were free to evolve. According to English historian, author, and Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, Dr. Lucy Worsley, as the Wars of the Roses came to an end in the late thirteenth-century so too did the need for defensive requirements of the manor house. In royal palaces, she expounds “this led to the development

Thanksgiving break has just ended, and now I’m back at school, that means I have to see Mrs. Gulon’s scary face again, and go to her classes, which are pure torture. Everyone thinks she’s an evil witch and I do too, her laugh sounds like an evil cackle, she has really dry lips, and yellow teeth, she has a big scar under her eye, and a big wart on her chin. Her classroom has a cellar in the corner that she locks kids in that angers her, I heard that sometimes she leave kids in there all day. Soon

had intervention, and then Lunch. That day we had had pizza dippers. Which is the best things ever invented. After lunch I had math, and then literacy. I had finished the school day off with phy ed, the best class ever. When Phy Ed was over I ran upstairs, went to my locker gathered all of my things, and headed to Mr. Disalvo’s

I heard the final bell ring. I packed up my backpack and other supplies and headed for my locker in the back of the room. I was always the last to leave class. Everything from there was me getting my stuff and heading home. I went into the art room to grab something. “Hey Jeff, coming here to get your painting?” my friend Florence ask as I walked into the room. “No just left left my marker here no big deal” But it actually was more than what she thought. The whole world depended on it. Yes, the

waiting for an indication that someone was going to follow me upstairs and show me to my room, and thankfully, no one did. When I reached the top of the stairs, I realized why no one accompanied me. Kaija had left only one of the bedrooms open, indicating which room now belonged to me. I made my way to the room as fast as I could without arising suspicion from my housemates downstairs, and once I was finally in the confines of my new room, I shut the door and let my body slide to the ground behind

The kitchen, dining area, main bathroom, and bedrooms are located on the top floor and the family room and garage are located on the bottom floor. A flight of stairs leads from the second level of the home to a landing and turns ninety degrees down to the first floor. In order for Freda to utilize the lower level of the home, her parents have to

Erma abusing Brian. Lori tried to peacefully break up the fight between the two, however; Erma took a more violent approach by smacking Lori. “Erma jerked her hand out of Lori’s grasp and slapped her so hard that Lori’s glasses went flying across the room,” (Walls 147). It is plain evidence that Erma jeopardize Lori’s safety and hurt her. This wasn’t the only time Lori was beat by a member of her family. When she was around 10 years old, Rosemary was assigned to teach Lori’s class in school. Rosemary

Williker told us that from now on our phones were to be put in the bucket before class and he would put the bucket under his desk. He also said if anyone had a problem with putting their phones in the bucket they could go to the office for the rest of the class. No one has said a word and I just sat there. Mr. Williker looked really disappointed; that was also an indication that something had happened. The nerves I was feeling in that moment were wild. Mr. Williker said that he had gotten an anonymous