Monday, November 5, 2012

Split Time

Today we spent half the period on two Faulkner questions.

  1. Anse Bundren may be one of the most feckless characters in literature. Why do you think his neighbors repeatedly come to his aid? Is it out of pity, respect, guilt, charity, community, or is Anse just that good at manipulation?
  2. Faulkner allows Darl and Vardaman to express themselves in language that would be impossible given their lack of education and experience in the world. Why does Faulkner break with the realistic representation of character in this way?

Groups then had the rest of the period to work on their individual poetry analysis which should be complete by tomorrow.

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