That Evening Sun, a Review Essay

At the beginning of the short story, Faulkner does not elude too much to the coming events in the story. Perhaps our first clue of things to come, comes from this text on page 90

William Faulkner was a Mississippi writer, a Hollywood screenwriter and a Nobel Prize winner. . In 1949 Faulkner was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction. He immersed his life in the literature and he surely pride about writing. Most of the stories he wrote were short stories. Of these, “A Rose For Emily,” “A Dry September,” and “Barn Burning” were famous, because they reflected the social crisis of the American History, the personalities of human, and the southern society.

At the plantation, NED, an angry White Man, whips NINA, a Black former slave. Black Raven and Captain Early arrive with the dead men. Nina is devastated. One of dead men is her husband.

In The Sun Also Rises, during the transition of society from World War I to post-war, values transformed from the “old-fashioned” system of what was morally acceptable to a system that held the basic belief that anything of value, whether tangible or intangible, could be exchanged for something of equal value. This novel specifically pinpoints the transformation of the values of money, alcohol, sex and passion (aficion), friendships and relationships, and even one’s pain.

In the beginning, “Barn Burning” appears to be a story about an oppressive father and his family, who seems to be caught up in his oppression. As you read further in to the story you find that the story is focused on a young son of a poor sharecropper, who has to struggle with his father’s arsonist tendencies which are destroying his families’ reputation and life style, while coming to terms with his own morality. The young son, whose name is Colonel Sartoris Snopes, is the protagonist in this story. Sarty disapproves of his father’s destructive actions and soon has to decide whether to be loyal to his family or give in to his own values of morality. Abner Snopes, who is the boy’s father, is the antagonist in the story. Abner Snopes is a very angry man, who despises the aristocracy class of people whom he has to work for and throughout the story constantly displays this hatred. The story is narrated in third person and follows a typical format. In Faulkner’s writing style, he uses descriptive dictation to draw the reader’s in to the story. In the first paragraph Faulkner introduces us to the main character in the story, Sarty. Subsequently, throughout the story we are introduced to the other family members. The setting in which Sarty’s conflict is recognized is at

Secondly, the story also describes several society indifferent among plots. When the family was on the way to Florida, they saw a black little boy on the walk who didn’t wear any britches, the grandmother said “little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do”(O’Connor 339). Her reaction toward the little boy shows despite and discrimination. She does not even thinking about others feeling and never realizes the reality of the pain of black people about how poor they are. Later, when they stopped at the Timothy, they met the guy Red Sammy and his wife who was running a restaurant. The grandmother talked with Red Sammy and they shared the common of “People are certainly not nice like they used to be”(O’ Conner 341). Suffered a trick

William Faulkner is a writer from Mississippi. Faulkner is a very famous writer with most of his most famous works being short stories. Two of his most popular short stories are “A rose for Emily” along with “Barn Burning”. Faulkner has many other popular works, but “Barn Burning” was one of his well-known stories because of the many different of elements of literature in which Faulkner chose to include. Faulkner was known as a writer who could properly convey many different elements of literature, such as symbolism, conflict, tone, and many other elements of plot within his stories. In “Barn Burning”, William Faulkner most commonly uses symbolism and conflict to emphasize the obstacles that Sarty has to face in his youth years.

By cautiously narrating 15 years later, he affirms the eventual failure of old Southern aristocracy and talks about this one story of Nancy to show just a big example of the ignorance they held at the time. Additionally, Quentin himself still holds his own racial prejudice, and his older, narrating character understands this when at the end he reveals the final question he asked his father, “Who will do our washing now, father?” (Faulkner 271). Even though he has shown before he knows about Nancy's plight, Quentin fundamentally still sees her as an object – a slave – only existing to serve his family and when her impending death prevents her from doing so, he just asks his father who will be the next to replace her role in their

“That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner is a good example of a great emotional turmoil transferred directly to the readers through the words of a narrator who does not seem to grasp the severity of the turmoil. It is a story of an African American laundress who lives in the fear of her common-law husband Jesus who suspects her of carrying a white man's child in her womb and seems hell bent on killing her.

     The works of William Faulkner have had positive effects on readers throughout his career. Local legends and gossip trigger the main focus of his stories. Considering that Faulkner grew up in Mississippi, he was very familiar with the ways of the South. This award winning author has been praised by many critics for his ability and unique style of writing. One of Faulkner's most popular works, which also was his first short story nationally published in

     In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a lost man who wastes his life on drinking. Towards the beginning of the book Robert Cohn asks Jake, “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize that you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” Jake weakly answers, “Yes, every once in a while.” The book focuses on the dissolution of the post-war generation and how they cannot find their place in life. Jake is an example of a person who had the freedom to choose his place but chose poorly.

In That Evening Sun, William Faulkner approaches the story through an anecdotal style that gives meaning to the story. The narrator uses the anecdote that happened to him to convey the story’s underlying meaning that people are restricted by social class and race, not realizing this meaning himself at the time. The era of racism pertains to the meaning of the story, discussing the aversion of southern white people to help those different from them, focusing on the restrictions that society has placed on social class and race separation and the desire to maintain the division.

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (9)

Faulkner makes the image of Nancy changes throughout the story. At the first few paragraphs, Faulkner describes Nancy as a tough woman who is vigorous even though people disdain her skin. “She would go down on her hands and knees and crawl through the gap, her head rigid, untitled, the bundle steady as a rock or a balloon, and rise to her feet again and go on” (Faulkner). This part portrays Nancy’s physical vitality as a strong woman. She has swift moves and she is good at keep her head steady. She is also a sloppy woman who can lean her head around the porch, “without any clothes on” (Faulkner). She usually shouts to the white kids she serve, and she does not care about that too. Furthermore, when she is on her way

     The sun is the largest object in the solar system. It is a middle-sized star and there are many other stars out in the universe just like it. Even though it is only a middle-sized star it is large enough to hold over 1 million Earth’s inside if it were hollow. The temperature on the sun is far too much for any living thing to bear. On the surface it is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the core is a stunning 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. But don’t worry we are over 90,000 million miles away, the sun could never reach us, at least not yet. The sun is a still a middle aged star and later in its life it will become a Red Giant. In this stage it will get bigger, and closer to us causing a temperature increase and most likely the