This paper explores how Faulkner employs the minor character Whitfield in As I Lay Dying to belittle simplistic Christianity. ... Whitfield claims repentance: "all that night I wrestled with Satan, and I emerged victorious. ... Whitfield is crossing the river because, yes, he does not want Addie to tell of their fornication, but he also desires to make things right with her family before she dies: "I would say to her husband: "Anse, I have sinned. ... A single minor character like Reverend Whitfield has much to reveal about William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. ... Working toward a full u...

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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Morrison's Beloved are similarly in the fact that both portray how community plays a key role in a families functionality in society. ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, while dealing with a situation almost polar opposite to Beloved, follows the same pattern of community playing a role in a family's functionality. ... Ultimately, "being outside the community leaves Sethe and her family open to assault by the enforcers of the system of oppression that created the situation" (Jesser 1) As the Bundrens continued their venture in As I Lay D...

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As I Lay Dying "I would look forward to the times when they faltered, so I could whip them-, quoted Addie. ... "I gave Anse children. I did not ask for them-. ... You live and you die nothing more. ... Kurtz's realization came to him before he died that there's nothing after death. ...

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Theme Descriptions of As I Lay Dying William Faulkner portrays all of his themes in the actual human drama of the South, where William Faulkner grew up. ... In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner explores the impermanence of existence and identity. ... (Magill Book Review) One of the most important main characters in the novel was Addie, who is the mother and central character in As I Lay Dying. ... At that moment when Addie dies, she has finally achieved the wholistic aspect of Self. ... God, I believe in God." ...

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That was until reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. ... I believe though that the reason she wants an abortion is because if she has the child Dewey feels like its anchoring her into her poor social class. ... In Coletta Brown's Motherhood Is Powerless she writes about how motherhood is powerless for women and after reading this story I saw a lot of Dewey Dell relating to this. ... Sometimes I wonder why we keep at it. ... If MacGowan saw Dewey as a socialite I doubt the idea of tricking her wouldn't have crossed his mind. ...

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He went from laying in a jail cell looking at the wall not talking to any who would come to visit, to occasionally shouting out comments about being a hog, to opening up and becoming a man. ... So Jefferson began to think in the way of "If we must die, O let us nobly die." I believe that understanding this poem is not necessarily essential to understanding A Lesson Before Dying. ... I read this book with out ever hearing the poem by Claude McKay and understood it with out significant difficulty. Although, the poem may have prepared me more for was to come in the book I do not believe it is ...

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"Yes, I believe in God." ... The girl lay dead at his feet. ... They believed it enough to die for it. ... And I hope that the reader who has not yet made a decision to follow Jesus will consider that if hundreds of people are willing to die--everyday--for their faith, then there might be some truth to their beliefs. I hope that you will remember this question every day for the rest of your life: He died for you, will you die for Him?...

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In his famous novel As I Lay Dying, Faulkner wrote in exactly this manner. ... Over the years, there has been much debate over whether his style in As I Lay Dying enhanced or detracted from the novel. ... However, As I Lay Dying does not have a protagonist. ... In As I Lay Dying however, readers do not get this advantage. ... This style led to much confusion in many of Faulkner's novels, including "As I Lay Dying....

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Many notable authors have had different feelings towards pastoral and wilderness settings; Henry David Thoreau was a die hard enthusiast for the wild where the Bible prefers pastoral settings. ... After the original sin was committed the Lord God cast them out of the Garden of Eden and into the wilderness, where the "savage- beasts lay. ... "As a true patriot I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country- (Thoreau). ... "I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at...

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My mothers name is Maria Lay Dodge and my father's is John Lansing. ... My family and I are very religious. ... I graduated from Amherst College in 1886, and like my father and grandfather did, I have entered the legal profession. ... Because of this job, I got to go to Paris, France. ... I later died on October 30, 1928, in New York City, at the age of 64....

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Death and fame are illuminated in the poem To an Athlete Dying Young. ... Already well regarded in England shortly after its release, the poem later regained relevancy during World War I due to its correlation with early casualty amongst young males. At the conclusion of World War I, deaths totaled roughly three hundred thousand (PBS) a disproportionate amount of which were under the age of 21. ... The historical criticism allows us a rare opportunity to glimpse the era of World War I. ... He uses the image of a young athlete dying and laying to rest with other people from the town who have pa...

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Session I was convened on October 11, 1962, which was attended by 2500 Bishops, the largest gathering in the Church's history. ... He died on the 3rd of June, 1963 and was succeeded by Pope Paul VI, who convened the remaining three sessions of Vatican II after playing an important part in the first session. ...

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As I lay in my hospital bed, I have no choice but to take in my surroundings. ... I lay there in boredom. ... My mother tells me someone may die. ... I've never seen someone die before. ... Some cry, others die. ...

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Ironies of the Bundren Journey As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, is a novel set in the rural Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha in the early 1900's. ... He remarks, " I am the chosen of the Lord, for who he loveth, so doeth he chastiseth" (Faulkner 111). ... In conclusion, As I Lay Dying would not be the novel it is today without its portrayal of the Bundren family's loyalty to one another, their misconceptions of true heroism and the irony of Darl realizing his true reality. ... "As I Lay Dying Reconsidered." ... As I Lay Dying. ...

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He lay turned toward me, staring, but not speaking. ... "I'm dying," I said. ... A coward will die. ... I lay there and listened but did not move. ... It isn't your wound that aches you, makes you want to die, it's the war. ...

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All hens don't lay white or brown eggs, some can lay a pink, green, or even blue egg, and it all depends on their first egg that they lay. ... Sometimes the chick wouldn't die as easily, so they have to die in a slow agonizing way. ... I believe this is called torture instead of force molting. ... Is this what they call a painless death, I disagree. ... I believe something needs to be done about this mistreatment. ...

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I will become a monk." ... Which I have to admit, I feel many people are content being spoon-fed. ... The quarrel was settled on Feb. 17, 1546, but the strain had been very great and Luther died the next day. ... Bainton gets a bit wordy at times and I feel I got lost in time. Meaning I"m not sure of the order of events. ...

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The Day the Music Died On February 3, 1959, the single-engine plane carrying famed musicians Buddy Holly, J.P. ... It was later, in 1971, that the idiom "the day the music died" was coined about that fateful night. ... The last line of the chorus is repeated twice and is a direct reference to a Buddy Holly song called "That"ll be the Day that I Die." ... The first verse lays the foundation for the premise of the song. ... Though music did not literally "die," it did change. ...

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The greatest example of a person dying in a heroic manner is Jesus who laid down his life for us. In both Uncle Tom's Cabin and A Tale of Two Cities, one of the main characters dies, each in a different way, but both are Christ-like in that they lay down their lives for others. ... As Dickens tells us, if Carton had given any utterance, he would have said, "I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous, and happy" (Dickens 389). ... Carton actively plans to die in order to help while Tom does so passively. ... These slaves saw Tom dying in the same w...

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So she did, and that's were she died. "I know not! I know not!" ... Yea; so we may both die, and little pearl die with us!" As we know the conclusion Hester did indeed die and lay next to the one she loved, the minister. ...

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His brother Allie dies when Holden is younger. ... In the second verse of "The Boxer" there are the following lines: "When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy, /In the company of strangers,/In the quiet of a railway station, /Running scared, /Laying low," (Simmon and Garfunkel) This applies to Holden. ... He meets different strangers on his trip he's all alone scared and laying low so that his parents won't know he's back. ... /I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome /I took some comfort there." ... In verse five of "The Boxer" these are th...

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It was also fate that led to Romeo returning to where Juliet supposedly lay dead. ... So, thinking Juliet dead he returned, went to where she lay and killed himself. ... Thus with a kiss I die." ... This is thy sheath, there rust and let me die." so when the died they were next to each I think that was fate that they were to die next to each other. ... So, thinking Juliet dead he returned, went to where she lay and killed himself. ...

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The ultimate loyalty to the king is seen in the following lines, spoken by Roland: "I would rather die than be overtaken by dishonor. ... "To make their lament and mourn for the King: to chant and lay their lord to honor. ... The idea of piety was so strongly pressed on the military men that they would pray and beg God for his mercy as the lay dying on the battlefield. " (Oliver) dismounts and lays himself on the ground and resolutely confesses his sins aloud, his two hands joined and stretched upwards towards the sky. ... "Oliver, my brother, I must not fail you. I shall die of grief if I die...

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With the character's actions revolving around her death, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the truth about the people who surround a person may take advantage of him or her. ... Addie is foremost the prominent abuser of her upcoming death in As I Lay Dying. ... "Addie is the one who is dying, but she makes revenges run throughout the family and extend beyond" (Wadlington 35). ... Darl, one of Addie's least favorites, is rejected by his mother which "injured him psychologically" and led him to burn the barn where Addie's coffin lay resting in peac...

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I shall die someday, then why not die today, fighting for Rome. ... Quintus constantly kept attacking me, and I kept defending, but I knew that sometime I would be too tired to defend; I knew I was doomed to die. ... I was conscious but I lay on the ground and Quintus said to me," This isn't your end, you shall die a much painful death.... Two men came to me, picked me up and lay me on the Crux Commissa, the cross on which I would be crucified. ... " After I said this, all the cheering had stopped; I was about to die and I could see my whole life in front me. ...

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