Wood Crystals: A Short Story

His name within itself shows he is precious. Due to the affair, Addie believes Jewel was conceived in violence leaving him to be her only salvation. The violence is shown through Jewel in the treatment of his horse. He also displays salvation as he saved Addie's body twice, from the river and from the burning barn. The way Jewel was born and the way Addie felt about him showed after her death in both a positive and negative way.

At the end of the novel, Jewel’s isolation only continues to deepen, while Darl is driven to an insane asylum. Both their demeanor’s had a huge outlook upon their outcomes. Darl’s isolation led to his confusion and misdemeanor, which caused him to eventually go crazy. Jewel’s hatred towards Anse will only continue to thicken and cause

Throughout the book Jewel is distant and somewhat disliked by his family, but the journey could not have been made without him. In two separate occasions he risked his own life in order to save his mothers coffin. He is also picked on by Darl, but never freaks out and fights him or anything. Without Jewel Anse would not have gotten his teeth either.

No one in the family knew what was going on, or why Jewel was so tired all the time. Jewel was unable to do any of his work because he would fall asleep everywhere, this meant that his family members had to pick up his slack and

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

While, this may seem like the kind hearted thing to do, Jewel is settled on doing this because he wishes to prove that he loves his mother more than anyone else in the family. As a direct recipient of Anse’s cruelty, Jewel finds himself being more of father figure to the family than anyone else. This responsibility puts Jewel under massive amounts of stress and leads to him pushing the family on the mission despite the losses they had already taken and the disrespectful state that Addie’s body was in. For example. When another Bundren child, Darl, comes to the realization that there is nothing to gain from their situation, he takes matters into his own hands. After placing Addie’s coffin in a barn, he sets the building ablaze. In a quick response, Jewel jumps into action; putting the fire out, saving the animals, and rescuing Addie’s coffin. While this action may seem heroic, it is actually one of the most cruel performances throughout the novel. By saving Addie’s coffin Jewel is not only positively influencing his personal goal of demonstrating his love for his mother, he is also enabling this absolute failure of a trip to

I was about to turn around to face the familiarity of the voice when I hear a deafening explosion to my right. I did what anyone would under the circumstances. I cowered beneath my arms, ready to anticipate the blazing heat of the flames.

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

Jewel is the son of Addie and Minister Whitfield. He is not like the other children and his mother favors him. Darl and Jewel have a very difficult relationship, because Darl likes to remind him that he really is not apart of the family. Jewel has a horse that his most prized possession which Darl tries to burn in the barn fire. Jewel saves his mother from the fire. He is more of a loner than the rest of the family, but his love for his mother exceeds what the other children hold for her. After she is gone, he really does not belong to this family even less than when she was alive and he knows

Jewel also receives a lot of criticism because he is seen as hostile and selfish from other characters, but he commits some very unselfish acts, such as looking for Cash’s tools in the raging river, and nearly getting in a fight with someone in Jefferson because they were giving his family weird looks. He also seems to be one of the few members of the family whose only motive for reaching Jefferson,

“Help!” A woman’s desperate cry pierced the trees to his left. Macduff wasn’t blind to the traps that thieves set up along the roads, so he

Eventually, the news was told to Yellow Diamond, and she could hardly resist feeling raged. She, fortunately to many in the same vicinity, remained calm. When pearls were dismissed, which was meager, the pearls would gather together; not conversing at all. They could not discuss their virtue with serving a diamond, or other potent gems. For now, they conversed about the rebellion, through their gems. It was a trait only conveyed in pearls. Their gems were another eye that scanned their ambience. Blue Pearl, being bestowed her name for her physical traits and mistress by the other pearls. felt as if she was the only one conveying second thoughts about being loyal. The other pearls could not read her ruminations, but only messages through vocal sound waves coming from her

In conclusion, Faulkner intentionally made Jewel so that we, the readers, could really psychoanalyze his character and go deeper than what he shows us. We realized how Jewel is just a scared, selfless, full of love individual, but could not be seen until we cracked open his shell. Faulkner cleverly and richly created Jewel with a seemingly shallow exterior in order to lead the reader into tapping his inner personality. Perhaps it is a testimony to how we should interact with each other, or even with ourselves. His message could be that people, even ourselves, could be hiding so much underneath or hard exteriors. Once cracked open, it can reveal a

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