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“It’s better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse…”
Who is Cash?
“My mother is a fish.”
Who is Vardaman?
“The was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t even fit what they are trying to say at.”
Who is Addie?
“I am bounding toward God and my reward.”
Who is Cora?
“I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it be merely a function of the mind.”
Who is Peabody?
The Bundrens encounter hell, in the form of the barn fire, and high this, the other classic symbol of an obstacle in a journey.
What is water?
Cash’s leg turns black toward the end of the journey because his cast is made of this.
What is cement?
This is the first things that Jewel saves from the fire.
What is the team of horses?
After the accident, Cash makes it to shore with the assistance of this living creature – not one of his brothers.
What is a horse?
The entire epic journey begins because of Addie’s wish to be buried with these people, rather than Anse and the kids.
Who are her parents?
This character’s name evokes Addie’s feeling that he is her “cross and salvation.”
Who is Jewel?
This character is named after a county in Mississippi; some scholars think his name also suggests that he is an orphan.
Who is Vardaman?
This character’s names supposedly suggests innocence, like the moisture on the grass in a field in the morning.
Who is Dewey Dell?
This character’s name is derived from an actual word that means “tall, silly, and goose- like”…please don’t call me that.
Who is Anse?
This character’s name suggests he may be his mother’s favorite; he’s not, but Cora Tull thinks he is.
Who is Darl?
Patriarch Anse is eager to buy a new set of these when he arrives in town.
What is teeth?
This very sensitive son narrates the bulk of the novel, and goes crazy because of it.
Who is Darl?
All five of the Bundren children belong to Addie; this one does not belong to Anse.
Who is Jewel?
Before building Addie’s coffin, this son fell off the roof and broke his leg.
Who is Cash?
The only daughter in the clan, she is preoccupied with being pregnant with Lafe’s child.
Who is Dewey Dell?
William Faulkner grew up in this Southern state, where he chose to set many of his novels.
What is Mississippi?
A number of colleges study William Faulkner, which is ironic, considering he never even finished this level of schooling.
What is high school?
William Faulkner is most closely associated with this literary movement, ironically titled, as it ended a few decades ago.
What is Modernism?
This Irish contemporary of Faulkner’s experimented with narration in his novel Ulysses.
Who is James Joyce?
William Faulkner experimented with this type of narration in which I just say everything that is on my mind without really pausing to add punctuation or anything like that.
What is stream- of- consciousness?
The Boston Celtics won their 17 th championship with the help of this shooting guard, who starred at Uconn.
Who is Ray Allen?
This New Hampshire-based author of The Pact probably owes a debt of gratitude to Faulkner’s literary experimentation.
Who is Jodi Picoult?
This director of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill most certainly was inspired by Faulkner’s non- chronological narrative.
Who is Quentin Tarrantino?
This hit vampire book by Stephenie Meyer is about to be released as a film.
What is Twilight?
This hip hop artist features Rhianna on his latest single “Live Your Life” – he’s Totally Inspiring.
Who is T.I.?
The title of As I Lay Dying comes from a speech given by this character in Homer’s The Odyssey.
Who is Agamemnon?