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 * 1. Using the websites listed on the "assignments" page, explore aspects of or perspectives on Faulkner's life and the culture of the South. Look at the webpage in detail and then __write a brief summary__ of what you discover. If there are images on the website, analyze them-what kind of image is it (graph, photograph, etc.) and what does it reveal about the subject? What does it obscure? As you gather your thoughts and learn new information, begin to think in terms of digital storytelling. How can you relate what you have learned to each of your other class members (as well as a select outside audience) through digital media? I would like you to consider creating a short video on what you have learned. Remember to sign your work after you post it.**

When you look at the images of Faulkner on the webpage given there are some aspects of Faulkner's life and the culture of the south that stand out. Starting with the first photo one can observe that he favored the look of the Bohemian poet. In all of his photos you can see that he maintains this style by keeping fatial hair and an overcoat of sorts. In the second and fourth photos the scenes depict the insperating for some of his writing from the culture he saw. For instance in the second photo there is a mule-drawn team at the Yocona River Brigde in the early 1900's that is much like the one in //As I Lay Dying//. Faulkner is a writer that takes much from life and transfers it to his work. -Elizabeth

-Elizabeth

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 * 2. Consider the following quotes from the last section of the novel:**

//'You'd better do as he [Jason] says,' Mrs. Compson said. 'He's head of the house now. It's his right to require us to respect his wishes.'"//

//"You, Jason!" Mrs Compson said. "He will never find the right one," she said. "You know I never let anyone take my keys, Dilsey," she said. She began to wail.//

//"Hush," Dilsey said. "He aint gwine do nothin to her. I aint gwine let him."//

//"But on Sunday morning, in my own house," Mrs Compson said. "When I've tried so hard to raise them christians. Let me find the right key, Jason," she said. She put her hand on his arm. Then she began to struggle with him, but he flung her aside with a motion of his elbow and looked around at her for a moment, his eyes cold and harried, then he turned to the door again and the unwieldy keys.//

//"Hush," Dilsey said. "You, Jason!"//

//"Something terrible has happened," Mrs Compson said, wailing again. "I know it has. You, Jason," she said, grasping at him again. "He wont even let me find the key to a room in my own house!"//

//"Now, now," Dilsey said. "Whut kin happen? I right here. I aint gwine let him hurt her. Quentin," she said, raising her voice, "dont you be skeered, honey, I'se right here."//

//The door opened, swung inward. He stood in it for a moment, hiding the room, then he stepped aside. "Go in," he said in a thick, light voice. They went in. It was not a girl's room. It was not anybody's room, and the faint scent of cheap cosmetics and the few feminine objects and the other evidences of crude and hopeless efforts to feminise it but added to its anonymity, giving it that dead and stereotyped transience of rooms in assignation houses. The bed had not been disturbed. On the floor lay a soiled undergarment of cheap silk a little too pink, from a half open bureau drawer dangled a single stocking. The window was open. A pear tree grew there, close against the house. It was in bloom and the branches scraped and rasped against the house and the myriad air, driving in the window, brought into the room the forlorn scent of the blossoms.//

//"Dar now," Dilsey said. "Didn't I told you she all right?"//

//"All right?" Mrs Compson said. Dilsey followed her into the room and touched her.//

//"You come on and lay down, now," she said. "I find her in ten minutes."//

//"The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times."//

//"Jason told him, his sense of injury and impotence feeding upon its own sound, so that after a time he forgot his haste in the violent cumulation of his self justification and his outrage."//

//"Of his niece he did not think at all, nor of the arbitrary valuation of money. Neither of them had had entity or individuality from him for ten years: together they merely symbolised the job in the bank of which he had been deprived before he ever got it."//

//"He [Jason] sat there for some time. He heard a clock strike the half hour, then people began to pass, in Sunday and easter clothes. Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock, and went on."//

Lester wanted to go to the left side of the the statue, but was forced to go to the right of statue when Jason jumps on the wagon. The new direction cause Benjy to get upset. This is like the South in the Civil War. The South wanted to remain the same and keep slavery, while the North wanted a freedom movement. The South was defeated by the North, and the North made them change into a new South. It relates to the choice to keep the same routine in life or to venture on to new ideas. -Naomi and Jordan She is the only character to witness both the beginning and the end of this final chapter of the Compson family history. Dilsey seems to be the only person in the household truly concerned for the Compson children’s welfare and character, and she treats all of the children with love and fairness, even Benjy. - Shafiqua When the Compson children were just babies, Dilsey was there. The Compsons have lost the southern values of faith, love, and family but Dilsey never lost those values and remained unchanged through the process of the Compsons' value loss. She avoids worldliness by staying faithful to her vision of eternithy. The Compsons changed and she was able to see from a distance the tragic downfall of the family. She accepts that like the Compsons she will have a beginning and end in her lifetime but she is different in the way she spends her time. She can live happily with the fact that she does good as much as possible instead of pondering on the worthless past. -Naomi Jason can almost be referred to as an ominous and malevolent force. He greatly scares those who live with him and he does not seem to have any remorse. Dilsey only has enough power to lessen any repercussions of this power; in other words, her power does not compare to Jason's but it alleviates his flawed ways of dealing with his responsibilities.- Jordan I feel like Dilsey doens't need to over power Jason. She is content with her spirituality and does what good she can in the time she has. She knows she can't over power him but she provides relief to the ones who feel overpowered by him. She takes Benji to church on Easter, she just tries to do all the good deeds she can but she doesn't let Jason bring her down because she knows the things in the world doesn't matter, she's focused on eternity. Dilsey has heavenly power and that's all she needs to fulfill her goal in life. Jason however is foucused on worldy things and wants to control the people around him to make him feel important.
 * **What is symbolic about the Confederate soldier in the town square?**
 * **What is important about the fact that Dilsey emerges as the solid, strong presence within the Compson household?**
 * **What is significant about the fact that it is Dilsey who sees the beginning and the end (of the novel and of the Compson family)?**
 * **How would you describe Jason's power as head of the household in this chapter? Does Dilsey have power? How does it compare?**

Caddy starts off as the family's compasionate daughter/sister and is like by everybody. As time passes, she loses her virginity and is disowned by the same family that thought so highly of her. The Compson Family started off weathy and well thought of and at the end it comes to ruin. Does Caddy somehow represent the family as a whole? -Naomi
 * **Would you say that Caddy reprents is a symbol of the Compson family?**

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