Faulkner's Jewel

Loyalty should be considered a quality that is supposed to keep family ties together and use the shield of bravery to protect it. It is proven that devotion in families of today, are lost and bravery shows no character in a person. It is a personality that each individual has in them only to be used in the most courteous way and should not be used selfishly. Loyalty cannot be purchased and must be earned. If it used in the wrong way, it can climax to a disaster.

However, Jewel has a much different view of their journey. Jewel sees it as a way to make up to his mother for not being there when she passed (Faulkner 48). Therefore, he does everything in his power to get her there . . . including running into a burning barn and nearly drowning to save her coffin (Faulkner 154 and 221). These acts, although seemingly heroic, arise as truly selfish and shallow. These shallow acts can exist through Jewels “pale eyes” which look “like wood” (Faulkner 4). This simile compares Jewel to a simple substance which mirrors how his actions towards his mother are self-absorbed. Wood is two dimensional and shallow. When Jewels refuses to let the past go and continuously holds on to the idea of upsetting his mother, he in turn works for his own benefit. Jewel seeks his mother's approval out of self absorption and not out of love; he acts shallow and hollow like wood. In turn, Jewel ignores his siblings and continues to push towards

William Faulkner, recognized as one of the greatest writers of all time, once made a speech as he accepted his Nobel prize for writing in which he stated that a great piece of writing should contain the truths of the heart and the conflicts that arise over these truths. These truths were love, honor, pity, pride, compassion and sacrifice. Truly it would be hard to argue that a story without these truths would be considered even a good story let alone a great one. So the question brought forward is whether Faulkner uses his own truths of the heart to make his story "Barn Burning." Clearly the answer to this question is yes; his use of the truths of the heart are prevalent

Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner refuse to surrender to the temptation of writing fanciful stories where the hero defeats the villain and everyone lives happily ever after. Instead, these two writers reveal realistic portrayals of death and the downfall of man. Remarkably, O’Connor and Faulkner’s most emotionally degraded characters fail to believe that an omnipotent deity controls their fate. This belief directly correlates to the characters’ inability to follow a strict set of morals or value human life. On the other hand, one might expect Faulkner and O’Connor’s “Christian” characters to starkly contrast the vile heathens who deny the existence of God.

William Faulkner released his famous book, As I Lay Dying, in 1930 (Eldridge x). The thirties were a hard time for everyone involved; citizen, soldiers, government workers no one was excluded from the hardships of this excruciating time in America. The reason Americans were suffering so much was due to very recently coming out of the First World War, and then shortly after, falling into a nationwide state of economic depression. In 1932 employment rates were only “sixty percent of what they once were in 1929” (Eldridge xxi). Not only was the depression looming over American citizens, but many were still recovering from the effects WWI had on the world. World War I ended in 1919, which seemed to lead to prosperity in the United States of America,

(QUOTE) This also shows that he thinks it is his role to save the coffin from danger. It is ironic that Jewel, who seems he hates family, actually cares about his family the most. Jewel thinks he is the one who the closest person to Addie and that he have to save his Addie.. (QUOTE) This is rare because he doesn’t have many his chapters.

Faulkner’s works consisted of many dark touchy topics such as war, racism, mental illness and suicide in all of books, short stories, William Faulkner wrote about almost every part of life, from something that could be absurd at his time, to something real like racism in the American South. Throughout his life, Faulkner was kind of a rebel, notorious for his confidence, drinking, and he would often make up stories about himself. Faulkner wrote from experience and as a person who lived in the south during times of racism, he wrote about a lot of things in the south. To be exact his specific genre or style in which he wrote in is what some call “southern gothic”. Southern gothic is a unique style of writing and only expressed by very few authors. These stories usually take place only in the south and have darkness to them. His stories would use irony to examine the values of the American south. Instead of solely trying to add suspense with the style it is also used to explore social issues and cultural character of the south. Which leads me to one of Faulkner’s first important novels “Sartoris”. In Sartoris Faulkner focuses on a family during the world war era in the south. In the book the Sartoris family is one of the more important families in Yoknapatawpha County where the book is set. The Old Colonel, John Sartoris, represents an old and dying out order dating back to the mid 1900’s. His world revolves around his plantation home, his slaves and his

Fear is the part of the human character that changes little in regards to its sensation, but vastly in regards to the motivation. Our chest becomes lighter than usual as if fear itself has lifted itself from our heart and into our head where it can fester amongst ideas. These ideas are what give fear its motivation. A big source of these facilitating ideas is the social climate of our nation. Progression has always left those fearful in the shadows of custom and resolution. New frontiers always ensue panic and paranoia. This is what The Twilight Zone puts at the forefront of its screenplay in the episode And When the Sky Was Opened. The U.S. space industry was on its toes in a seemingly never-ending struggle against the USSR. By the time the episode had aired, Russia

The Analysis of William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” Theme Barn Burning by William Faulkner talks about the relationship and loyalty of a son, Colonel Sartoris Snopes or Sarty to his father, Abner Snopes. The story is told from the ten year old Sarty’s perspective. All of his life, Sarty has always been taught to value family ties.

Southern Gothic writer William Faulkner author of “Rose for Emily,” knows that the form of a story gives it a special meaning. Faulkner uses the five parts out of chronological order to allow the reader to accept and understand why Emily Grierson is crazy or “perverse”. First, he must show why she is worth the town's “care”: and why she is a “fallen monument”. Faulkner starts the story with Emily already died to hint at his Gothic intestine. In Gothic stories, there is often a creepy or haunted house. Emily’s house is declared an “eyesore among eyesores” with a crayon portrait of Emily’s father and the house having a “dank” smell.

Jewel Bundren, the middle child in the Bundren household, lives a very complicated life due to his distinct differences with his siblings. Jewel is a young adult whose aspirations and wishes do not relate to the others in his family. Although Jewel is a part of the Bundren family, his only tie to the family is his mother, Addie. Jewel looks nothing like the Bundrens. He clearly resembles his father, Minister Whitfield. This is apparent when Darl describes Jewel as having “pale eyes and a wooden face” (Faulkner 4). Jewel is seemingly taller and stronger than Darl, as he is quite a hard-worker. This is especially true when he is working with horses, his main love.

As I was writing “Barn Burning” I took ideas from the upbringing of my family to its violent encounters, run in with the Law and constant migration. My families Legacy became my inspiration, especially my Great grandfather William Cuthbert Faulkner or as we call him “The Old Colonel”, a civil war veteran and a writer but most important to me a role model. Old colonel and other residents of Oxford where I grew up especially the struggling farmers inspired my imagination and helped me create background for my fictional tales.

Although Jewel has always felt very different from his family members he has always had a strong love for his mother, although it is not perceived that way. Barnes points out, “In the episode where he exchanges his horse for the team of mules to replace the team destroyed in the river, Jewel reveals the extent of his active devotion to his mother, which itself meets the needs of the entire family.” (Barnes, “Faulkner’s Jewel: Logos and the Word Made Flesh”). When Addie’s body was in danger Jewel was the child to act although he wanted nothing to do with the rest of the family. Jewel is dealing with his grief for his mother by completely taking it on which is why Jewel is experiencing the most pain. Without Addie, Jewel now feels that he has

in his book, “Sanctuary” published in 1931 William Faulkner talks about a girl named Temple Drake and how her life changes after she fails to follow the gender roles of her status. After Temple decides to go out with Gowan Stevens a college student from the university in Virginia she ends up at Lee Goodwin’s bootleg house Frenchman’s Bend. While at Frenchman’s Bend she has to rely on help from Tommy and Goodwin’s wife Ruby, to keep members Popeye and Van from doing anything harmful to her. Although they try their best to keep her out of harm’s way, Popeye ends up raping Temple and takes her to a brothel in Memphis where she lives the life of a prostitute. With the information presented it can be seen that due to Temple actions her status is

William Faulkner’s unconventional writing style is widely renowned for his disregard of literary rules and his keen ability to peer into the psychological depths of his characters. His novel As I Lay Dying is no exception to his signature style. This book sets forth the death of Addie Bundren, her family’s journey through Yoknapatawpha County to bury her with her relatives in Jefferson, Mississippi, and examines each character in depth from a variety of perspectives. While this journey wreaks havoc among members of the family, As I Lay Dying serves as a dark reminder that life is to be lived and that happiness is within reach.