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The Relationship between Stories and Their SourcesMost authors use some type of source when writing a story. The source could be religious, scientific, or something else thatis inspiring to them. Even great writers such as Shakespeare hada source in which their stories came from. The source can beused for many different purposes. A certain author may use asource to show different parallels between two stories or to showsimilarities between events or characters. They may use thesource to prove a point or to add meaning to the book. Thesource could also just be an ambiguous connection that helps terminate the story. Whatever the authors reason for picking acertain source it seems to give the story completion andsignificance. In this class, we read many stories in which thesource deals with worship and especially the gospels. In thispaper, I will discuss these different stories and how they relateto their religous sources. The first story we read in class was, ?gA Visit of jack ladd er?hby Eudora Welty. In this story, the source that is eluded to isthe Genesis story of Adam and Eve. The story begins with Marian,a young campfire girl, who is on her way to an Old Ladies?f Home. in the beginning entering the shell she stops by some prickly shrubs. Theoutside of the home was covered by beautiful shrubbery and thewhitewash brick building reflected the sunlight. Yet, the insideof the home was in bad shape. It smelled musky and the linoleumon the floor was bulging up. The details Welty adds aresignificant because it shows two different worlds. The one worldMarian still sees which is beautiful like the Garden of Eden andthe world she is slowly stepping into where things are notbeautiful and good. The story continues with Marian visiting two experient ladies who fought between themselves the whole time she wasthere. Marian did not want to be at the home and especiallydislike visiting these two ladies. Although, the one chick wasfriendly to Marian she was still scared of both ladies. At theend of the visit the one lady grabs Marian?fs arm and asks her fora penny or a nickel. Marian runs from the old lady withoutlooking back. When she gets outside she grabs the apple she hidin the prickly bushes on her way into the Home. As she jumpedonto the bus Marian took a big bite of the apple. This is themost significant part of the story because it shows how Marianknew what she was doing was wrong but she carelessly did it