William Clark Falkner

The writer and Nobel Prize winner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. His family settled in Oxford when he was about five years old, and Faulkner spends most of his life there. Faulkner was successful early in his life, but during the fifth grade he lost interest in school and started missing classes. He did not graduate from high school, and later on he was able to go

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Emily Grierson is the main character who represents the old values and traditions of pre-Civil War who is faced with the new values and traditions that challenge everything she has ever known. The very first description we get of Emily is the reason people attend her funeral: “the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument” (Faulkner 168) which immediately gives the reader an idea of her being from a past time. Her family’s home is the

Abner Snopes is a bully/terrifying character. He controls his family with violence and makes them accomplices to his favorite pastime, burning barns. Abner is a formidable character in his own right even though he forces his 10 year old son Sarty to run away and live without his family. Due to his own beliefs that you never go against blood/family. “Abner Snopes is also depicted as a man who is loyal to no one other than himself or his family (which is a mere extension of himself). This trait is

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to go on a three year expedition westwards to the Pacific Ocean in August of 1803. While the journey to the West provided Lewis and Clark was one that was both fascinating and difficult, the journey back home was one that was filled with obstacles. Some of the difficulties faced on the journey home can be attributed to the climate and topography of the land which are recorded in the journals of Lewis and Clark. During June of 1806, Lewis and Clark are returning home

John Henry Weber was born in 1779 in Altona near Hamburg, at that time part of Denmark. By 1807 he migrated to America to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri where he became acquainted with William Ashley and Andrew Henry. In 1822 Weber enlisted in the Ashley-Henry Fur Company which departed St. Louis in the spring bound for the beaver trade of the Upper Missouri River. After reaching the mouth of the Yellowstone River, the company divided into two trapping brigades and it appears very probable that Weber commanded

Lewis the Leader Meriwether Lewis is the main reason that the United States’ territory extends from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Pacific Ocean (“Meriwether Lewis” 2). He has done many great things, but he is best known for exploring the American West (1). He was a great man full of bravery. Meriwether faced tons of dangers in his life but he overcame all of them. Lewis “helped change the face of the United States by exploring uncharted territory- the American West (“Meriwether Lewis” 2)

Lewis and Clark went on their journey to explore the western region of what is now known as the western half of the United States of America. On their journey they drew maps and made friends with Indians and described them and their ways of living. In 1803, Congress appropriated funds for the exploration of the West. Jefferson desperately looked for a leader who he could trust to lead the expedition. When he came to his conclusion about who the leader would be, he had picked Meriwether Lewis, who

the Louisiana territory. I left in 1804 with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find a northwest passage and tell the Native Americans that we own the newly purchased Louisiana territory. Lewis, Clark, and I also found many new plants and animal life. After we discovered that there was not a northwest passage we started going back home. This expedition was very long it took us 2 years and 4 months. On April 29, 1805 Lewis, Clark, and I spotted a gray wolves. The wolves live in prairies they can

The names Lewis and Clark have almost always been associated with excellence and adventure. Their expedition westward in search of a water passageway across the country has become etched into the annals of history as one of the earliest and greatest examples of American nationalism and survives not only as a compelling story, but also as a piece of living, breathing history. However, upon examining the expedition, several prudent questions arise: Could the expedition truly have known what awaited

compassion for you. However, that wasn’t the scenario for Sarty Snopes in William Falkner’s “Barn Burning”. William Falkner, the author of “Barn Burning” was born in 1897. “His parents, Murry Faulkner and Maud Butler Falkner, named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years’ prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi”. (Biography) William Faulkner was relatively unidentified until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize