As I Lay Dying: One Eventful Family Trip
Faulkner’s eventful truth telling story As I Lay Dying is a showing of many different characters points of view and teaching readers the truth about the people who surround a person may or may not take advantage of him or her while they are in need of them the most. F
William Faulkner is what some may call a creative genius with the works he has produced. Some might even call him a great American author. He has created many amazing books that gained him popularity in his time and still today, also winning him prizes. Some of his major works being The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying. Teaching readers the truth about the people who surround a person may or may not take advantage of him or …show more content…
Faulkner shows that the truth about people you surround yourself with may or may not take advantage of him or her. For example Anse blames all his bad luck, like the rainstorm or losing a tooth, on the stress his family gives him instead of just blaming himself(Chase 19). He also thinks Addie’s death is also another example of his bad lucks. He pushes all of his problems on everyone else because it is “their fault” when he should just man up and deal with it all himself. For example Anse said, “Putting it where every bad luck prowling can find it and come straight to my door, charging me taxes on top of it”(Faulkner 36). With this quote from the story Faulkner is trying to show the reader that Anse is really the complainer that the story portrays him …show more content…
Setback after Setback things just kept getting in the way. It helped with showing everyone’s true sides about them and how all of this was affecting them. The rain storms caused everything to flood and wash away so it was harder to cross. With the crossing of the wagon everything went downhill from there. While the boys tried to pull the wagon across it got stuck, Cash broke his leg, and the coffin, sadly got wet. A wet corpse is already going to stink, but when they got to the next farm they were staying at it got a hundred times worse because it was so hot outside and bugs were getting into the coffin. Then Darl tried to burn barn down. Then finally they buried Addie in Jefferson where she wanted to be. Without her family to bother her. In other words, Bryan wrote, “The Bundrens are not separated from death by the distance the modern funeral place between the world of the living and the world of the dead”(Bryan 4). What Bryan means by this is that distance isn’t a barrier for them it is something they could experience any time. Whenever or wherever. Even though the family has a couple setback the burial goes well and everything is going good. The whole experience they had going to Jefferson showed what kind of family they are when they are all together trying to help out one person they were supposed to care about most, their mother. But they took advantage of the trip and their mother
Faulkner’s eventful truth telling story As I Lay Dying is a showing of many different characters points of view and teaching readers the truth about the people who surround a person may or may not take advantage of him or her while they are in need of them the most. F
William Faulkner is what some may call a creative genius with the works he has produced. Some might even call him a great American author. He has created many amazing books that gained him popularity in his time and still today, also winning him prizes. Some of his major works being The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying. Teaching readers the truth about the people who surround a person may or may not take advantage of him or …show more content…
Faulkner shows that the truth about people you surround yourself with may or may not take advantage of him or her. For example Anse blames all his bad luck, like the rainstorm or losing a tooth, on the stress his family gives him instead of just blaming himself(Chase 19). He also thinks Addie’s death is also another example of his bad lucks. He pushes all of his problems on everyone else because it is “their fault” when he should just man up and deal with it all himself. For example Anse said, “Putting it where every bad luck prowling can find it and come straight to my door, charging me taxes on top of it”(Faulkner 36). With this quote from the story Faulkner is trying to show the reader that Anse is really the complainer that the story portrays him …show more content…
Setback after Setback things just kept getting in the way. It helped with showing everyone’s true sides about them and how all of this was affecting them. The rain storms caused everything to flood and wash away so it was harder to cross. With the crossing of the wagon everything went downhill from there. While the boys tried to pull the wagon across it got stuck, Cash broke his leg, and the coffin, sadly got wet. A wet corpse is already going to stink, but when they got to the next farm they were staying at it got a hundred times worse because it was so hot outside and bugs were getting into the coffin. Then Darl tried to burn barn down. Then finally they buried Addie in Jefferson where she wanted to be. Without her family to bother her. In other words, Bryan wrote, “The Bundrens are not separated from death by the distance the modern funeral place between the world of the living and the world of the dead”(Bryan 4). What Bryan means by this is that distance isn’t a barrier for them it is something they could experience any time. Whenever or wherever. Even though the family has a couple setback the burial goes well and everything is going good. The whole experience they had going to Jefferson showed what kind of family they are when they are all together trying to help out one person they were supposed to care about most, their mother. But they took advantage of the trip and their mother