Hope Murray
Mrs. Karkut
American Literature Period 5
7 May 2017
DON’T FORGET TO ADD SCHOOLBOOK CITATIONS!!!! “If you have other things in your life – family, friends, good productive day work – these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer,” as stated by David Brin. Authors write about things they know. Their life has considerable influence on their writing and allows them to create a unique voice that is entirely their own. William Faulkner lived in a time where racism and prejudice were prevalent and grew up adventurous and independent; therefore, he wrote As I Lay Dying that includes southern settings, grotesque characters, and the theme of an inescapable death. William Faulkner published most of his writing …show more content…
He was the first child of Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. He was the oldest of four brothers and often enjoyed handling guns and hunting (Skei). His family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline "Callie" Barr (the black woman who raised him from infancy) crucially influenced the development of Faulkner's artistic imagination. Both his mother and grandmother were avid readers and also painters and photographers, educating him in visual language. While Murry enjoyed the outdoors and encouraged his sons to hunt, track, and fish, Maud valued education and took pleasure in reading and going to church. She taught her sons to read before sending them to public school and exposed them to classics such as Charles Dickens and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Faulkner's lifelong education by Callie Barr is central to his novels' preoccupations with the politics of sexuality and …show more content…
Much of this clarity can be attributed to the intensity of Faulkner’s vision for the work and the careful planning and outlining he did before sitting down to write. Whereas Faulkner conceived many of his other works in a scattered fashion, he fully imagined the innovative concepts of As I Lay Dying ahead of time, furiously scribbling down his revelations on the back of an upturned wheelbarrow. This organization reflects the great hopes that Faulkner pinned on the novel—he had recently married his high school sweetheart, Estelle Oldham, and hoped his saga of the Bundren family would finally ensure a steady income for his family and a greater literary reputation for himself. The result is a novel of some daring, one that forgoes the unified perspective of a single narrator and fragments its text into fifty-nine segments voiced from fifteen different perspectives. In writing As I Lay Dying in this way, Faulkner requires his readers to take an active part in constructing the story, allows for multiple and sometimes conflicting interpretations, and achieves remarkable levels of psychological
Mrs. Karkut
American Literature Period 5
7 May 2017
DON’T FORGET TO ADD SCHOOLBOOK CITATIONS!!!! “If you have other things in your life – family, friends, good productive day work – these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer,” as stated by David Brin. Authors write about things they know. Their life has considerable influence on their writing and allows them to create a unique voice that is entirely their own. William Faulkner lived in a time where racism and prejudice were prevalent and grew up adventurous and independent; therefore, he wrote As I Lay Dying that includes southern settings, grotesque characters, and the theme of an inescapable death. William Faulkner published most of his writing …show more content…
He was the first child of Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. He was the oldest of four brothers and often enjoyed handling guns and hunting (Skei). His family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline "Callie" Barr (the black woman who raised him from infancy) crucially influenced the development of Faulkner's artistic imagination. Both his mother and grandmother were avid readers and also painters and photographers, educating him in visual language. While Murry enjoyed the outdoors and encouraged his sons to hunt, track, and fish, Maud valued education and took pleasure in reading and going to church. She taught her sons to read before sending them to public school and exposed them to classics such as Charles Dickens and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Faulkner's lifelong education by Callie Barr is central to his novels' preoccupations with the politics of sexuality and …show more content…
Much of this clarity can be attributed to the intensity of Faulkner’s vision for the work and the careful planning and outlining he did before sitting down to write. Whereas Faulkner conceived many of his other works in a scattered fashion, he fully imagined the innovative concepts of As I Lay Dying ahead of time, furiously scribbling down his revelations on the back of an upturned wheelbarrow. This organization reflects the great hopes that Faulkner pinned on the novel—he had recently married his high school sweetheart, Estelle Oldham, and hoped his saga of the Bundren family would finally ensure a steady income for his family and a greater literary reputation for himself. The result is a novel of some daring, one that forgoes the unified perspective of a single narrator and fragments its text into fifty-nine segments voiced from fifteen different perspectives. In writing As I Lay Dying in this way, Faulkner requires his readers to take an active part in constructing the story, allows for multiple and sometimes conflicting interpretations, and achieves remarkable levels of psychological