Motiv to kill

             The killer or killers in every horror story each have their own motivations in life that drive them to kill.
             In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, we see how past events effect
             the main character Miss Emily, especially her mental state. She seems to live
             in a sort of fantasy world where death has no real meaning. Miss Emily refuses
             to accept or even recognize, the death of her father or that of Colonel Satoris.
             She does not want to acknowledge the fact that the world around her was changing
             therefore Miss Emily surrounds herself with death. What Faulkner tries to state
             in this story is that you should not let death overpower your life. A person
             should try and let go of their beloved ones after they have passed away. He
             also tries to state is to always expect the unexpected, like when Miss Emily
             Faulkner chooses to use third person narration in this particular story
             for a couple of reasons. He tries to show Emily's world to us as seen through
             the eyes of a respectable resident, so we can understand the town life as if we
             lived there. This way we were able to understand how the people of Jefferson
             thought of her. If the story would have been told in first person we would not
             have been able to relate to Miss Emily. The reason for that would be, if she
             would have been the narrator we would have understood the story in a hole
             different manner. Faulkner used third person narration and from that we were
             able to find out many things about Miss Emily's past. For instance the death
             of her father, the love she had for Homer, and how she felt the need for
             affection. Those ideas she would have kept to herself, if she were to have told
             The story only spoke briefly about the father, but what they did say made him out to be somewhat controlling. The story stated that there was a picture in the house that showed Miss Emily and her father standing in the
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