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DISCUSSION QUESTION: This week you are going to review articles in the complete section

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This week you are going to review articles in the complete section. I want you to use the article you select to aluate how effective the article's argument was using Toulmin's model. A minimum of 100 words, detail as many of the 6 components as possible:

1. Claim: What was the article's main point? What's the thesis?
2. Grounds: What kinds of evidence did the author use to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
3. Warrants: Did the author(s) successfully connect the evidence to the main point? How so?
4. Backing: How credible were the sources the author(s) applied? How does credulity affect your overall response?
5. Qualifiers: Did you notice any absolutes (all, every, each) or limiters (some, several, many)? How did they add or subtract from the argument?
6. Rebuttal: Did the author(s) present any points of opposition and counterarguments? How did it influence your reaction?

William Faulkner Given Name: William Cuthbert Falkner Born: September 25, 1897; New Albany, Mississippi Died: July 6, 1962; Byhalia, Mississippi Quick Reference First published: 1930 Type of work: Short fiction Type of plot: Gothic Time of plot: c. 1865-1924 Locale: Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi Principal characters Miss Emily Grierson, an eccentric aristocrat Homer Barron, her lover, and a construction supervisor Colonel Sartoris, Jefferson’s mayor, a war hero The townspeople of Jefferson, Tobe, Miss Emily’s servant The Story: As a child, Miss Emily Grierson had been cut off from most social contact and all courtship by her father. When he dies, she refuses to acknowledge his death for three days. After the townspeople intervene and bury her father, Emily is further isolated by a mysterious illness, possibly a mental breakdown. Homer Barron’s crew comes to town to build sidewalks, and Emily is seen with him. He tells his drinking buddies that he is not the marrying kind. The townspeople consider their relationship improper because of differences in values, social class, and regional background. Emily buys arsenic and refuses to say why. The ladies in town convince the Baptist minister to confront Emily and attempt to persuade her to break off the relationship. When he refuses to discuss their conversation or to try again to persuade Miss Emily, his wife writes to Emily’s Alabama cousins. They come to Jefferson, but the townspeople find them even more haughty and disagreeable than Miss Emily. The cousins leave town. Emily buys a men’s silver toiletry set, and the townspeople assume marriage is imminent. Homer is seen entering the house at dusk one day, but is never seen again. Shortly afterward, complaints about the odor emanating from her house lead Jefferson’s aldermen to surreptitiously spread lime around her yard, rather than confront Emily, but they discover her openly watching them from a window of her home. Miss Emily’s servant, Tobe, seems the only one to enter and exit the house. No one sees Emily for approximately six months. By this time she is fat and her hair is short and graying. She refuses to set up a mailbox and is denied postal delivery. Few people see inside her house, though for six or seven years she gives china-painting lessons to young women whose parents send them to her out of a sense of duty. The town mayor, Colonel Sartoris, tells Emily an implausible story when she receives her first tax notice: The city of Jefferson is indebted to her father, so Emily’s taxes are waived forever. However, a younger generation of aldermen later confronts Miss Emily about her taxes, and she tells them to see Colonel Sartoris (now long dead, though she refuses to acknowledge his death). Intimidated by Emily and her ticking watch, the aldermen leave, but they continue to send tax notices every year, all of which are returned without comment. In her later years, it appears that Emily lives only on the bottom floor of her house. She is found dead there at the age of seventy-four. Her Alabama cousins return to Jefferson for the funeral, which is attended by the entire town out of duty and curiosity. Emily’s servant, Tobe, opens the front door for them, then disappears out the back. After the funeral, the townspeople break down a door in Emily’s house that, it turns out, had been locked for forty years. They find a skeleton on a bed, along with the remains of men’s clothes, a tarnished silver toiletry set, and a pillow with an indentation and one long iron-gray hair.