#darl and dewey dell

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - Notes + Thoughts

Main Themes: death + grief, classism, individual agency, religion

Images + Symbolism: bananas, buzzards, cows/horses/steer, eggs, rain/water - change, "queer" in reference to Darl's behavior/demeanor

Classism:

Dewey Dell: "I had saved enough so that the flour and the sugar and the stove wood would not be costing anything." (pg. 7)

"'But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant."(pg. 7)

Dewey Dell experiences the class divide starkly after painstakingly saving for the ingredients for a cake - which she cannot sell because the customer, "change[d] their minds" which is privileged

Darl: " Without looking back the horse kicks at him, slamming a single hoof into the wall with a pistol-like report. Jewel kicks him in the stomach"(pg. 13)

Darl works his horse like he is worked, especially by Anse who believes he should own what his children own - violence seems to somehow communicate respect, maybe the respect of handling physical responsibilities

"I have never seen a sweat stain on his shirt. He was sick once from working in the sun when he was twenty-two years old, and he tells people that if he ever sweats we will die."(pg. 17)

Dewey Dell: "We are country people, not as good as town people."(pg. 60)

Anse: "It's because there is a reward for us above, where they cant take their autos and such. Every man will be equal there and it will be taken from them that have and give them that have not by the Lord."(pg. 110)

"But now I can get them teeth. That will be a comfort."(pg. 111)

Darl: "When Jewel comes up he has the saw."(pg. 162)

Darl and others go to retrieve Cash's tools from the water - risking their lives for material goods, those goods are worth significant money, and without them, it would be difficult to make money - the family seems reliant on Cash to produce income through carpentry

Cash: "Kind of hangdog and proud too, with [Anse's] teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren,' he says."(pg. 261)

the main characters of the story are all aware of the class division to some degree

Religion:

Dewey Dell: "If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree"(pg. 8)

Cora: ". . . coming sometimes when I shouldn't have, neglecting my own family and duties so that somebody would be with her in her last moments and she would not have to face the Great Unknown without one familiar face to give her courage."(pg. 22)

"I have tried to live right in the sight of God and man, for the honor and comfort of my Christian husband and the love and respect of my Christian children. So that when I lay me down . . . I will be surrounded by loving faces, carrying the farewell kiss of each of my loved ones into my reward."(pg. 23)

reminds me of the play EVERYMAN, wanted to take with him family and friendship, but neither would come with, but the symbol for Love did go with in the end

Tull: "The Lord giveth"(pg. 30)

'The lord giveth, and the lord taketh(but please lord don't take it all at once"

Anse: "When He aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it long ways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man."(pg. 36)

Tull: "Then [Cora] begun to sing again, working at the washtub, with that singing look in her face like she had done give up folks and all their foolishness and had done went on ahead of them, marching up the sky, singing."(pg. 153)

Addie: "[Cora] prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too."(pg. 176)

Cora seems to be practicing Christianity in preparation for death, almost waiting for the exalting that comes with being at peace with your loved ones and lord, however, she seems to ignore the strife and trials that come with living

Death + grief:

Peabody: "The nihilists say that it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town"(pg. 44)

death as change, not the end, just difference

Vardaman: "my mother is a fish"(pg. 84)

right before Addie passes, Vardaman catches a fish and guts it - this is the way he can contextualize his mother's death, which allows her to live on in certain ways

Darl: "Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down."(pg. 227)

Addie: "I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."(pg. 169)

Individualism:

Vardaman: "an is different from my is."(pg. 56)

"He was there and he seen it, and with both of us it will be and then it will not be."(pg. 67)

Addie: "And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don't ever fit even what they are trying to say at."(pg. 171)

Ars Poetica

Cash: "It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment."(pg. 238)

Misc:

Tull: "Only it kind of lived. One part of you knowed it was just water, the same thing that had been running under this same bridge for a long time, yet when them logs would come up spewing up outen it, you were not surprised, like they was a part of water, of the waiting and the threat."(pg. 138)

Would love to hear other thoughts on this novel!

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Vintage Books, 1900.

[dogs-are-nice02-blog]

Dewey Dells motivation is her unwanted pregnancy. As an unmarried young girl from a poor background she would be burdening her family greatly by having a child. She seeks abortion without the support of the father or her family, and feels threatened when Darl finds out.

[burdenousbundrens]

@DeweyDell

@Peabody 👀

Photo(s) Explanation: Throughout the journey, Dewey Dell's monologues have been occupied by her pregnancy and her desire for an abortion that was illegal at the time.

It is shown that she does not want her family members to know of her pregnancy, and so she views Darl as an immediate threat to her (since he was the only one who knew of her pregnancy). Furthermore, she rejects Moseley's rejection of marriage with Lafe. Dewey Dell's refusal to make her relationship with Lafe public suggest that she--like Addie--does not want the title of a wife nor a mother imposed on her by society. Hence, this indicates her underlying desire to be free and independent from societal norms.

[mohanasilaydying]

Darl

Addie

Anse

Dewey Dell

Jewel

Cash

Vardaman

[shipcestuous]

The Sound and the Fury

I finally got a chance to see James Franco's adaption of The Sound and the Fury, which we talked about back in 2013 when it was in pre-production. I guess they had their reasons but this sure is a long time to wait.

James Franco adapted another Faulkner novel – As I Lay Dying. Both stories center on families with several grown children. They have a lot more in common but that's what relevant in terms of why I am discussing it. I read As I Lay Dying my senior year of high school and shipped the only sister, Dewey Dell, with her brother Darl. It was more of a case of there being a shippable moment here and there rather than anything significant in the larger picture. There's certainly nothing that might be called canon though I remember feeling that there was this and that that was a little suggestive. Anyway, there wasn't much that was remarkable for our purposes about that movie. I included all the moments that were worth anything in this photoset. It's actually her brother Jewel who pulls her back, which made me ship them a little in the movie.

I read The Sound and the Fury of my own volition, but I honestly can't remember if it was for what might be called the canon-adjacent subtext between Quentin and his sister Caddy or if it was during the period when I was trying to read the classics. In any case, it's frustratingly close to being canon while still hovering a little ways away from it. If you've read it, then you know, but basically the novel takes the POVs of the different Compson siblings – Jason, the eldest; Quentin; Caddy, the sister; and Benjy, who is severely mentally challenged. Benjy and Jason are both preoccupied with their sister. Caddy has sex out of wedlock and gets pregnant, which is very scandalous at the time, and even though their family and property are in decline they all have a certain obsession with the respectability of their family name. Jason is very upset by Caddy's pregnancy and for some reason wants to say that it's his? He thinks it'll be less shameful or sinful that way. I really need to read the cliff notes again because that makes as little sense to me now as it did when I read it. Eventually Quentin kills himself. Caddy names her baby daughter after him.

Here’s some older commentary: 1, 2

So it's suggestive, but my impression when I read it wasn't that Quentin's feelings were based on any kind of desire for her. Then again, I might have just been looking for something more explicit, but the narrative was being coy. Faulkner doesn't like to spell things out. There's more commentary here and here.

Anyway, the reason I'm writing all of this is because the movie did pretty well by us.

 It's still subtext, but it's a lot closer to the surface. We see Caddy and Quentin being cute and holding hands in the river when they are children in one of Benjy's flashbacks, and in another we see Quentin devastated at Caddy's wedding. He's watching the newlyweds dancing and it's clearly bothering him deeply. The interpretation in the movie of Quentin's section from the book emphasizes his relationship with Caddy and de-emphasizes everything else. He's thinking about her pretty much the whole time. They lie by the water at night and talk. He hates Caddy's boyfriends and tries to get rid of them. When he finds out she's pregnant, he says the two of them should run away with Benjy and raise the child together. One time when they are talking by the river he wants to kill her and then himself, and she tells him to do it, but then he starts crying and she pulls him into her arms. The best part and most significant in terms of incest – beyond the fact that I can't count the number of times I thought they were going to kiss – was when Caddy passed by and saw Quentin making out with her friend. She stormed off and he chased her down trying to get her to admit that it bothered her. Then they wrestled and he pinned her. There was a lot of sexual tension but nothing happened. Then they started laughing and talking.

This movie really dove into incestuous interpretation, though ironically it cut the most suggestive part in the book, which is when Quentin wants to claim that Caddy's baby is his.

I mentioned that in the book Quentin cared about the family's honor and ideas of purity vs. sin, and that was his purported reason for being so bothered by Caddy sleeping around and getting knocked up. The movie didn't suggest that at all. He seemed jealous, plain and simple. It was definitely a flaw of adaptation but that kind of thing doesn't bother me, especially when it works in our favor.

Lastly, Jason and Quentin II. I confess, I shipped Jason and Quentin II in the book the first time I read. He's a terrible person, and he's terrible to Quentin. But he came across as obsessed with her, and she hated him so much that it was an obsession for her too. And that really rang my bell. Of course, I only really like it with a few minor major tweaks to make Jason a better guardian and a better person all around.

I can't not mention the 1950's movie adaptation of The Sound and the Fury, which is probably the greatest thing to have ever happened to humanity. It took EXTREME liberties with the story and really only resembles the novel in a few superficial ways, and only the last section of it. Basically the makers of that movie turned Jason into a sort of hero figure, who is re-written as Quentin's step-uncle, and they have a canonical romance. I mean...I still can't believe it's real. An anon told me about it. (Anon, if you're still around and you see this, please know I have never forgotten the service you did for me. You are my sun and stars.) It was truly a grand fluke in history. Never has something so incomprehensible yet so wonderful happened as this wacky adaptation. I ship it a lot, obviously, but what's so delightful is just that a non-canon and unhealthy relationship from the book got turned into an incestuous romance with a happy-ish ending in a movie that was made in the 50's and clearly had no f—ks to give.

There’s more here about Jason and Quentin II.  

In the newest movie, sadly there's not much to report on the shipping front. It's like the novel, though it does focus on Jason and Quentin II's relationship even more than that section of the novel does, though you don't get to see quite so much of Quentin II's side of it. Originally I had heard that they were considering Jon Hamm for Jason, but apparently that didn't work out. It's too bad there wasn't more of a budget for this movie so that they could have had a few more familiar faces in the cast, though I thought that everyone who was in it did great. I guess what I'm getting at is that a hotter Jason would have done a lot for the shippability aspect, but I shouldn't even be thinking that because it's not a shippable relationship to begin with. There's a lot of “if only's” involved here.

The movie has a low rating on IMDB but I can't help but think that it's a mix of die hard book fans and people who saw that James Franco and Seth Rogen were in and then had no idea what they were actually in for. I'm not saying it's a perfect movie but I can't believe anybody actually thinks it's that bad.

[elpublico]

oh my fucking god i cannot get into as i lay dying

[escapelifethroughbooks-blog]

I read this book a few years ago for my Composition II class in college, though I don’t think I actually finished it. So, I re-read it, all the way through this time, since I saw it was part of the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.

I gave this book four stars on Goodreads, mostly because it was still a little confusing for me at some parts (I don’t have any of my discussion notes from class) and because in some sections it was hard to tell what the reasoning was for the italics. I ended up looking up the meaning of the italics on Google while subbing yesterday because I honestly couldn’t remember and I really needed some sort of explanation before I continued reading.

However, the story itself was just as good as I remembered it being. Like all families struggling with the loss of a loved one, the Bundrens have their ups and their downs as they deal with the loss of their mother and wife (in Anse’s case), some to the point of going crazy (in Darl’s case). You can sense that there’s a lot of tension between the older siblings as they figure out how to deal with this loss in their own ways as well as trying to help their father get the coffin containing their mother to Jefferson where she asked Anse to bury her. But you can also see the confusion on Vardaman’s part as he doesn’t quite understand what’s happening around him which causes him to not quite know how to deal with the death of his mother.

One of the things that I liked was that this story was told from different perspectives. This something that can get confusing in some books, but in this one it worked. Faulkner was able to present the situations and goings-on in this book through the eyes of all the family members, including Addie Bundren (a section from her that takes place long before her death even though it’s in the middle of the book). But it also shows perspectives of friends of the family and a few other people that they encounter along the way to Jefferson, like the two pharmacists that Dewey Dell goes to see about having an abortion so her father and older brothers (other than the one that knows) doesn’t find out that she is pregnant. Those couple of sections give the reader a better understanding of what is going on, especially if they haven’t quite figured out what’s going on with Dewey Dell.

There was a time where I wasn’t a huge fan of this book, but I think that was due to the fact that it was required reading along with the fact that I was using an e-book for class (meaning it wasn’t as easy to flip back to check what I had previously read when I got confused about what was happening). Now, I’m a bit more of a fan of this book because it shows how well (or not so well) family members get along during a time of loss as they figure out how to deal with the death of a family member. It makes me stop and think and then pray that my sister and I won’t end up like some of the older Bundren siblings during our days of loss when our parents do eventually die.

[dubertdeeqbert]

I find this line to be really interesting. Especially when it comes to the children’s names and their roles in the family. A jewel is something cold and rigid. It is valuable only so much as it is seen by others to have value. You can go to the store and buy groceries with cash, but you can’t buy them with a jewel. Their usefulness is hard to see. A dell is a small valley, usually among trees. Vallies have had extremely important impacts on human civilizations. It was in river valleys that many civilizations started. Valleys are good for growing crops and sustaining life. Dewy can mean, besides to be wet with dew, an adjective describing something that’s young, fresh, and innocent.

Jewel is represented as this selfish character, partly because of the truth of his parentage. He’s cold and distant, with no obvious skillset or worth (unlike Cash and his carpentry). Given that the book is written during a patriarchal time, and given Jewel is not biologically Anse’s, he has (in theory) no right to live on that farm and eat the food provided him. And then there’s Dewey Dell, the sole daughter of the family, a seemingly young and innocent girl whose job is to be a giver and caretaker. When Jewel spends his nights helping another farm and sleeps through his days chores, Dewey Dell is one of the people that pick up the slack. When Addie is sick and dying then dead, Dewey Dell is in charge of food preparation and looking after her younger brother. Addie’s logic is sort of like ‘here, I may have taken a son but here’s a daughter to give in exchange for his taking.’ What’s interesting is that in the end, the father takes from both of them. Anse trades away Jewel’s horse, his prized possession, and steals the ten dollars Dewey Dell was lent for an abortion. Where the horse takes care of old business (getting mules to bury Addie), the money is used to benefit Anse in the form of teeth and a new wife.

The second instance of metaphysical weirdness I found interesting is at the bottom of the same paragraph. Addie says she gave Anse three kids (Cash, Darl, and Vardaman) that weren’t hers, and now could die. The time this book was written, children belonged to the father. The mother often had little influence and input, especially when it came to sons. Because Jewel is not Anse’s biological offspring, he is Addie’s where his brothers aren’t. Because Dewey Dell is the only daughter, Addie most likely had more influence on her and therefore she is not included in the ‘his not mine’ category with three of her brothers. Back then, a woman’s duty was seen as having children (preferably sons) and taking care of the house. She gave Anse three sons and Jewel to run the property and whatnot, and gave Anse Dewey Dell too, someone to take care of household stuff. In her eyes, she can be done now. She’s done her ‘duty’ and can die easily, leaving behind the life she didn’t enjoy and the family (barring Jewel) that for the most part she didn’t love. Cash and Darl are in their late 20s/early 30s and can get married, and Dewey Dell is (I think) 17 and old enough to control the house. Addie can be done.

[haymuehl]

Asking Different Questions

I chose this passage because here we really get a sense of the interesting  relationship between Darl and Dewey Dell.      

Class Question: What does Darl know about Dewey Dell? 

William Faulkner Question: How important are the repeated phrases in Dewey Dell’s chapter?  

Dewey Dell Question:  Why not actually have a conversation with Darl and explain how Lafe actually took advantage of you?

[dachi-chan25]

I had books that I either loved or hated so idk maybe I need to do another unhaul to ensure I read books I'll actually enjoy.

1- OtherEarth (Otherworld #2) by Jason Segel

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So this was a big disappointment. It started out fine, but I had this bad feeling about what the twist of this book would be about 50% into it, and then the twist comes and it was just as bad as I feared. Honestly I don't even know if I wanna continue with the last book, I have it but honestly I can't say I am looking forward to it, it wasn't just the plot that fell down but the characters felt pretty inconsistent and yeah not a fan.

2.- Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle #1) by Rosaria Munda

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The only thing I knew going into this was that it was inspired by Plato's Republic and that it was similar to Game of Thrones, so maybe that is why I found it pretty underwhelming. Like yeah I could see why it was based off the Republic with this system of education (tbh I still found it pretty basic and very much alike to other social systems I've read in other YA books) and there was some intresting tid-bits but not enough to keep me intrested. Now the characters, I liked both individually (unpopular opinion but I liked Annie more, I thought she had real potential but it was wasted because the moment she and Lee have this romance her character completely lost herself on thinking about him and what he did all the time) but I do not think they worked together romantically. There is some potential drama for book 2 but I am not intrested in reading it.

3.- The Mistress (The Original Sinners #4) by Tiffany Reisz

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This book was so good. Yeah it was super predictable, but the drama tho. I really loved Layla, she gave us an outsider's insight on Søren and Nora's relationship, and she is just the sweetest that I instantly knew she and Weasley were gonna get together. I cried at that last confrontation scene with Nora and Marie Laure and I am so happy that Nora is back together with Søren because they are truly a good couple despide everything.

4.-Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno Garcia

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I LOVED it. Ever since I saw the cover I was sold. This book I feel like it was meant for me. Like our protagonist Casiopea Tún is a dark skinned mexican girl of mayan descent in the 1920s who meets one of the lords of Xibalba and goes on a quest to help him retake his throne???? And on the way he falls in love with her so much he is about to forfeit his divinity to have a chance to be with her. I just, it was so beautiful, I felt my culture was really represented here, and it's so wierd to see the 1920's represented in Mexico I don't believe I had read something like this before and I will read anything Silvia Moreno Garcia writes from now on. Hopefully we will have a second book for this because that ending makes me wonder what adventures Casiopea will have.

5.-Little Gods by Meng Jin

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This book blew my mind. The structure is perfect for the themes . Su Lan was a truly fascinating character though I felt very sad about her, always wanting to escape her past and thinking she was so undeserving for anything good in her life and still fighting to go on. The ending was so good, and all the cast of characters made an excellent conection between the past and the future.

6.- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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Yeah I am a pretentious ho. I was very intimidated by this book (and anything written by Faulkner really) and I was really having trouble understanding the book at first because the prose is so particular (there are sentences that read like Shakespeare, some are almost Biblical stuff and then most of the dialogue is this very coloquial english with very poor ortography) and as English is not my first lenguage I struggled. But then we get to Addie's death and all this odyssey the family goes through to bury her, and it was so beautiful and exciting. I especially loved everything about Addie's chapter, she was so much better than her husband and she deserved better than what she got. I really liked Dewey Dell and Darl. While I hated Anse Bundren with a passion so the end really made me angry like waaaaat this selfish asshole gets everything he wanted and then some??? But I got why it made sense for the book. So I definitely recommend this, but my advice is to let yourself glide through the book, do not try to understand or make sense of it as you start it because then you become frustrated like it happened to me at first but it's a really beautiful book so I am really considering reading more Faulkner.

7.-Chosen (Slayer #2) by Kiersten White

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I enjoyed this book so much. It's a very easy read and we get some growth on Nina and Artemis. I liked the idea of the Watcher's Castle being a refuge for inofenssive demons. And omgggg I fangirled SO hard when Oz, Harmony and Clem appeared (my fave characters, like literally I only need a Spike cameo in these books to be completely happy). I really wanna see Nina meet Buffy in real life and ahhh I am excited for whatever the next book will bring us.

8.-Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve

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This is perharps my favorite book I read this month. It felt so relevant to things that are happening in the world, but escapist enough to bear it. For starters I love a good urban fantasy setting, and this was it. Z was a great non-binary protagonist (the fact the author is also non-binary also helps) like it was pretty original to make them a zombie when necromancy is viewed as wrong in their society and they get discriminated for it even though they knew nothing about how it happened to them. And their friendship with Aysel (lesbian muslim werewolf girl!!!) and Tommy (shapeshifter boy) was amazing. Like the way this book translates real life bigotry and social injustice to this magical creatures was truly amazing I recommend it to everyone of any age. Especially middle graders as this book is meant for that age group and I feel this is an amazing diverse read for that age group.

9.-El murmullo de las abejas de Sofia Segovia

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Realmente este libro es precioso, soy una super fan del realismo mágico y este libro realmente me toco el corazón. Aunque he de admitir que entre a este libro sin saber nada, y bueno que este libro pega diferente en el 2020, yo no tenía ni idea que este libro nos presentaba la Pandemia de Influenza Española de 1918, y bueno es bastante triste leer todo lo que paso cuando nosotros estamos pasando épocas muy similares. Simonopio es un personaje divino, poseedor de una sensibilidad y una inocencia verdaderamente fuera de esta mundo, y la forma en que la familia Morales lo adopta y lo abraza tan profundamente dentro de la familia es realmente hermosa. Fue muy difícil leer acerca de Anselmo Espiricueta porque puedo ver de donde venía todo ese odio y esa ignorancia que terminaron en tragedia y no puedo dejar de sentir lastima por él a pesar de todo el mal que hace durante el libro. Recomiendo mucho esta lectura.

10.-Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

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A book so relevant in our current times. So powerful and impactful even if the book is pretty short. We get to see how the systematic racisim at work. We get to get a glimpse of this awful reality through Kev and Ella, two gifted siblings that have lived this experiences in different ways and they cope with this in vastly different ways.It was such an intimate read I cannot begin to describe how angry and sad it made me, but also very glad I got to read it because we need to keep being aware that this is the reality for black people all around the world and they don't get to shy away from it so we shouldn't either we should see, learn and fight as hard as we can to change things for the better.

11.-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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I re-read this book to have it fresh in my mind before the new series airs on July. And I liked it better now than the 1st time. This world is so scary because I see so many realistic elements it shares with the present. I felt a lot for Lenina (for everyone who lives in this world really) because she wanted more than what the society had to offer yet was so deeply conditioned as to what was right that she could just supress her emotions with soma. This book is of course full of racist and sexist stuff (cuz woman and indigenous people can never win) but I feel it helps to get a feel about how fucked up society is as a whole. In the reservation woman are subjected to the usual slut shaming and gender roles we get in our society while in London we get a world in which woman are judged for not sleeping around and being happy and infantile. Like it seems controling woman and their relationship to intimacy and sex is always a bit theme is classic dystopic books which makes a lot of sense given it works like that in the real world too. Same thing with indigenous people being treated as savage to congratula te ourselves for being so much more "civilized" never stopping to think how deeply fractured and flawed this may be. We also get explotation and brain washing of working classes and all that fun stuff. Really and amazing book eerily accurate tho.

12.-Brick Lane by Monica Ali.

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This is the story of 2 very different Bangladeshi sisters with very different temperaments making their way through life. Nazneen is a very dutiful daughter that marries the man her father picked for her, moves to London, though her husband doesn't make her happy she tries very hard in this foreign country with so many desires of her own she wishes that she always supresses because of her upbringing. Then we have Hesina, she was always beautiful and runs away with a guy she was in love with, later he abandons her and she gets jobs and loses them because different man keep making her fall for them to abandon them later. Different as they are this 2 Sisters keep relying in each other through letters. I thought it was very moving, and I really liked the ending for Nazneen while Hasina left me feeling worried and unhappy.

13.- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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I was very hyped for this book and I am so sad I didn't like it. I just didn't feel the world building was cohesive (we have space travel but we don't have baths??? And rapiers as weapons??? Most of it felt like aesthetic decisions) the characters felt very one dimensional to me. And the plot was all over the place, just when I thought I knew what it was about it takes another turn and introduces so many generes but it did not feel natural at all so yeah I will not be reading the next one.

14.- Luces de Bohemia de Ramón Maria del Valle Inclan

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Me pareció una obra maravillosa. Definitivamente captura el espíritu creativo bohemio.

15 .- Don Juan Tenorio de José Zorrilla

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Yo adoro el Tenorio, sin embargo si que he de decir que prefiero la versión del Burlador de Sevilla de Tirso de Molina pues siento que el final es más adecuado. Me parece que aunque la prosa es hermosa Doña Ines pierde mucha agencia en esta versión, me recuerda mucho más a Angelina de la obra "El Honor del Brigadier" que la versión que hizo de ella Tirso de Molina, definitivamente se romántiza mucho más está figura de seductor canalla en esta versión, aun así es una historia arraigada en México, es una tradición para mi verla cada Noviembre, este año me temo que no será posible así que disfrute muchísimo leerla.

[rockinreaper]

Analysis

Dewey Dell’s growing instability is marked by her language throughout the book. Her chapters didn’t start as a stream of consciousness, they devolved into it and the beginning of that transition was when she was recounting how she knew that Darl knew about her pregnancy. That’s a moment of significance because it conveys how inwardly panicked she is about this situation.

Her next chapter is sporadically stream of consciousness whenever she is actively thinking about the fact that she is pregnant. For example,

“I said You dont know what worry is. I dont know what it is. I dont know whether I am worrying or not. Whether I can or not. I dont know whether I can cry or not. I dont know whether I have tried to or not. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth (64).”

This rambling reads like hyperventilation, like she’s struggling to comprehend the circumstances she’s in.

Finally in her next chapter, she reaches full stream of consciousness. This coincides with a dream about killing the person who knows she pregnant, Darl, and with a call to religion marked by repetition of phrases in threes, alluding to the Holy Trinity, and the repeated phrase, “I believe in God (121-122).” 

This descent into instability emotionally and mentally is all because she is a pregnant, unmarried woman in the early twentieth century south. If people found out about this, she’d be a social outcast and she knows this. Dewey Dell is adamant about no one finding out about her and is furious that Darl knows because it’s a reminder of what’s possible: everyone finding out. She’s desperate for no one to know and desperate to get rid of the baby because of the pressure she’s under in her environment and this is evident in the development of her chapters.

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PSA

Darl from As I Lie Dying is a terrifying character. He knows everything and can see things happen in places where he is not. I’m pretty sure he can read people’s minds too. He fucking cries when his mother’s favorite son does something right because he’s a petty fuck. Then he burns the barn down with his mom’s corpse in it because he doesn’t want her wishes to be fulfilled because—ONCE AGAIN—he’s jealous of Jewel, the one who actually cares the most about his mother. He torments both Jewel and Dewey Dell about their secrets throughout the novel. DID I MENTION HE IS OMNISCIENT??????

So, yes. Darl Bundren scares the shit out of me. Thank you. That has been my TedTalk.

[zaremc]

as i lay dying

A little bit ago I finished my book! Once I got towards the end, I couldn’t put it down. This book was honestly an incredible piece of literature and I can see why it is highly praised. While the storyline wasn’t the most interesting I’ve ever read, it was very powerful to see Faulkner’s moves and try and understand why he made them. It was such a cool thing to see the story develop along with the characters and see how Faulkner used his writing skills to shape them. I did actually like finding out more about Dewey Dell as time went on and I also liked reading Cash’s storyline because of his leg. Darl was another interesting character to me because he was very intellectual and thoughtful while the other characters seemed one sided and narrow minded. I also thought Anse was an incredibly interesting character, for some of the only character development he endured was us finding out that all he really wanted was to bury his wife where she wanted, because he promised her he would. As the book went on, I actually got frustrated because I felt for the characters and I was becoming frustrated on their behalf for the fact that they were literally running around town with their mother in a coffin and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t seem to find any luck in getting her to her desired grave any sooner. In the end, I really enjoyed this book. Definitely recommend if you are able to appreciate the actual literature behind a book as opposed to just an interesting storyline. 

[my-commoplace-blog]

“And then I knew that I knew. I knew that as plain on that day as I knew about Dewey Dell on that day.” -William Faulkner, ‘As I Lay Dying’; pg. 45 (Darl - “He sits the horse...”)

Again, Darl’s supernatural sense of knowing. Here he’s talking about how he suddenly knows that Jewel is not Anse’s son. He doesn’t know the father, but he knows that Jewel was born of an affair Addie had.

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As i lay dying essay addie Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying

She worked as a schoolteacher and enjoyed whipping her students, whom she secretly hated. William Faulkner. Home / Literature / As I Lay Dying / Characters / Addie Bundren Characters / Addie Bundren. Cite This Source. Character Analysis. Addie is Anse’s wife and mother to Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman (in that order). She narrates section 40, though she dies in Section 12. Before we start a character analysis here, we recommend going back and sloooowly reading Section 40 again. Most of the interesting stuff regarding Addie is revealed in those 10-ish pages. Back already? Great. Then, first off, you know that Addie hated Anse; that’s why she wants to be buried in Jefferson, with her own family, rather than with Anse’s (to which she feels no connection). You also know that Addie wasn’t exactly an ideal candidate for motherhood to begin with. Oddly enough, what appealed to Addie most about this corporal punishment was the fact that it made her a part of the students’ lives. Now you are aware of me!" she used to think. But when she finally had her own children, what she resented most was that her "aloneness had been violated." What gives? Remember that this is the 1920s and Addie is a woman. She doesn’t really have much purpose to her life other than having babies. Her anger at her students probably has a lot to do with the hollowness she feels as a single woman.... View more ...