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As I Lay Dying Book

Published in 1930, “As I Lay Dying” is a novel authored by the American writer William Faulkner. The book is famous for its varying chapter lengths – the shortest of which reads: “My mother is a fish.”

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How do you use redundancy in a sentence?

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Some examples of redundancy are:

ATM Machine

ATM= Automated Teller Machine

I am going to the ATM is needed. Not I am going to the ATM Machine.

Another is:

I bought a PC Computer.

PC= Personal Computer

I bought a PC is needed. Not I bought a PC Computer.

Why was As I Lay Dying banned?

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"As I Lay Dying" was banned, i.e., removed from school libraries, by several school districts for its language and situations. Some of the bans were quickly reversed.

What is the point of view of As I Lay Dying?

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Here are some ecletic thoughts and nonsequiturs to get the ball rolling:

The first person associated with wood, even before Cash and Addie, is Jewel. Wood conveys a sense of hardness and endurance, as opposed to flesh, which is soft and ephemeral, easily decayed (think about Addie's flesh).

It is, on the other hand, malleable and able to be shaped by carpenters. Wood is also directly related to trees, which come up in Anse's first chapter, in which he argues that people are tall like trees instead of long like snakes because God made man to rest, not to travel. Following this idea of wood's vulnerability, wood also inevitably turns into dust.

The second reference comes in Tull's chapter, when he's describing Vardaman's carrying the freshly killed fish. He likens Vardaman to carrying a(n) armful of wood. So wood's immense size, essential immobility and clumsiness, are all at work here.

Later on there is the wood of the coffin; wood acts as the container for Addie's flesh, protecting it from harm.

Wood is used to describe Cash's tools, in particular his hammer, which "has the most wood." Wood is also present in the river in the form of logs, one of which almost takes the life of the three Bundren brothers.

Wood is used repeatedly to describe Jewel by Darl toward the middle stages of the novel, and disappears toward the end.

What is Cash building in As I Lay Dying?

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A box to bury addie in

How does Cash injure his leg in As I Lay Dying?

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Cash injures his leg twice. The first time, he falls 28 feet off a church building while he is doing repairs and breaks it. This has happened some time before the beginning of the book. The second time, he breaks that same leg again when the wagon flips over in the river. Because of the Bundren's poor handling of his injury, Peabody says that Cash might end up having to lose his leg.

Which best explains how the structure of this excerpt reveals Cash's personality?

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It enumerates Cash's ideas to show that he is logical and organized.

Why does whitfield not reveal his sin to anse?

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Because it was no use when she was already dead

What is the historical context of as i lay dying?

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1920s Mississippi rural farm life