Faulkner's Night

     William Faulkner is one of America's most talked about writers and his work should be included in any literary canon for several reasons. After reading a few of his short stories, it becomes clear that Faulkner's works have uniqueness to them. One of the qualities that make William Faulkner's writings different is his close connection with the South. Gwendolyn Charbnier states, 'Besides the sociological factors that influence Faulkner's work, biographical factors are of great importance…'; (20). Faulkner's magnificent imagination led him to create a fictional Mississippi county named Yoknapatawpha, which includes every detail from square mileage of the county to the break down of

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

Throughout the beginning of the passage, the author uses an array of different rhetorical devices to give us a glimpse about Douglas Spaulding's feelings towards the beginning of summer.Ray Bradbury utilizes personification in sentences 1 through 5. For example "The town covered over with darkness...the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow." The author drives a clear picture of a mysterious atmosphere by the use of the word "Darkness". By adding "The wind had the proper touch."

William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” describes a typical relationship between wealthy people and poor people during the Civil War.

Along with sensory details, Rawlings’ practical use of figurative language largely helped her to win a Pulitzer Prize for her astonishing work on this novel. The figurative language used, aids in bringing life to the story through devices such as comparisons and exaggerations. For instance, on page six, the novel reads, “The bubbling spring would rise forever from the earth, the thin current was endless”. The spring cannot rise forever and the thin current can end. Here, the author uses hyperboles to exaggerate the details, and to show the importance of the ideas.Another instance, is on page two hundred and twenty four when the sound of the air is brought  up, “A great roaring sounded in the distance. All the bears in the scrub, meeting at the river, might make such a roaring”. This description uses a simile, comparing the wind roaring to the sound of a group of bears. This allows a better awareness of the degree of the noise. Rawling could have said the wind roared but by adding the detail, she creates more depth in her portrayal of Jody’s experiences. On page two hundred and twenty four there is another example of figurative language, where personification being used, “In the night, a gust of wind moved through and slammed both doors”. This is very helpful in Rawlings creating a great piece of work because it breathes life into the wind and in that moment gives the

William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” symbolizes the destructiveness of the human ego through the character, Abner Snopes. Throughout the story, Snopes functions and communicates based on his own logic. He has no regard for his family, superiors, or the judicial system. His unrelenting effort to live according to what he deems as “right” creates an atmosphere of fear and oppression.

“Barn Burning” first appeared in print in Harper’s Magazine in 1939 (Pinion). It is a short story by William Faulkner which depicts a young boy in crisis as he comes to realize the truth about his father’s pyromania. Faulkner takes the reader inside the boy’s life as he struggles to remain loyal to his unstable father. In the end the boy’s courage and sense of justice wins and he not only walks away from his father’s iron clad control over his life, but he is able to warn his father’s next victim. To understand how this boy could make such a courageous, difficult decision we must review the important events in the story and the effect they have on him.

actions to show that no one will own or control him. He has no regard

In William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Faulkner portrays the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her dying wish to bury her in the town of Jefferson. Faulkner utilizes humor in the novel to lighten the mood of death and as an act of transgression against the orthodox Christian views of death as it relates to good souls dying and becoming angels. Addie Bundren’s son, Vardaman, relates to the orthodox Christian views of death, and the synonymous use of humor with these views ultimately creates an idea about humanity’s perception of death and how they should live, which is enhanced through John Morreal’s “Humor in the Holocaust: Its Coping, Criticizing, and Superiority” and “‘The Abject’- A Brief Definition.”

The birth of the modernist movement in American literature was the result of the post-World War I social breakdown. Writers adopted a disjointed fragmented style of writing that rebelled against traditional literature. One such writer is William Faulkner, whose individual style is characterized by his use of “stream of consciousness” and writing from multiple points of view.

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

violent protest. His father, dressed in bell-bottoms and a flowered shirt,”the perfect hippie”(24), as Victor would say, is holding a rifle above a National Guard private and preparing to beat him with the rifle. Just before hitting the private a photographer captured a picture of him on top of the private and a man holding a sign saying “MAKE LOVE NOT WAR.” As regular news today the picture only shows one side of the story and damage the reputation of Native Americans in the United States even more. After serving his time in jail, Victor's father gets out just in time to hitchhike to WoodStock to watch Jimi Hendrix play “The Star-Spangled Banner.” After all the pain and suffering his father endures in jail he somehow found happiness in a small moment, but a big moment in his life.

Receiving both the Pultizer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner was an extensively recognized writer in the 20th century. Since the South was his home, Faulkner’s work was known to consist of southern culture and history (MINIBIOGRAPHY). One of his short stories, “Barn Burning,” published in 1939, followed this southern-style trend. The protagonist is faced with the challenges of loyalty to family and loyalty to the law. This internal battle of right versus wrong is prevalent throughout the entire story, and it is something I identify with; the third-person limited perspective gives the readers an insight into the protagonist’s struggles with ethics.

Emerging from and dwelling within an all-consuming lamentation, the characters of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! enwrap themselves in a world of hurt wherein they cannot or will not release the past. Each comes to know the tragic ends of lingering among an ever-present past while the here and now fades under fretful shadows of days gone by. As the narrative progresses. the major players in this installment of Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County grow ever more obsessed by what alternative actions different circumstances might have afforded. Trapped in his/her own notions of "what might have been" (115), Miss Rosa Coldfield's wistful, yet indignant exhortation, the

After receiving the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for literature, American novelist William Faulkner addresses the guests gathered at the Stockholm event. At the time of his address, America had just witnessed and been apart of one of the most terrifying wars in all of history - the Cold War. He shifts from a cautionary to an advising tone while keeping a more specific target audience in mind than just those tuning to the event. Faulkner attempts to appeal to the current and future generations of young authors. The purpose of his famous speech is to convince those who follow in his footsteps to write of hope for humanity and make a positive impact on the world even in this time of global anxiety and terror during the Cold War. He successfully does this throughout the entirety of his speech by building emotional pathos in order to persuade his audience to make a change and includes dramatic diction, powerful metaphorical languages and contrasting anthesis.