II. Introduction
“I could remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead for a long time.”(40.2) Through this novel and the quote above the difficulty and life long process of preparing for death is revealed. Whether it is ours, or someone we love we are never truly prepared.
As I Lay Dying , is set in the fictional adaptation of the author’s, William Faulkner, home town of Lafayette County (Yoknapatawpha County) in Oxford,Mississippi. Here the Burdens family embark on their quest to bury the family matriarch Addie Burden in her hometown of Jefferson, but not without a variety of impediments and adversities. The area and values of the small town play a large role in impeding their goal and establishing …show more content…
We plan our funerals long before we even have a reason to die.
Evidence: “Addie Bundren dying alone, hiding her pride and her broken heart. Glad to go. Lying there with her head propped up so she could watch Cash building the coffin, having to watch him so he would not skimp on it” (7)
Evidence: “They are country people who live and work on a farm and, so they are close to death in a way that their more distant neighbors and the townspeople are not. Such is apparent with the string of associations throughout the novel that liken Addie to animals.” (modern funeral industry 4)
Explanation: The characters connections with death were limited in diversity. Through they are not phased by death like those who would live in a city, they are exposed to death in animals more than that of people. That is why vardaman continued to call his mother a fish and darl said she was a horse.
Section 2:Death as Right of Passage
Topic Sentence: The perception of death and its importance varied with in characters, but those who found it important put forward a great amount of effort to grant the deceased her final wish of being buried in her home
“I could remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead for a long time.”(40.2) Through this novel and the quote above the difficulty and life long process of preparing for death is revealed. Whether it is ours, or someone we love we are never truly prepared.
As I Lay Dying , is set in the fictional adaptation of the author’s, William Faulkner, home town of Lafayette County (Yoknapatawpha County) in Oxford,Mississippi. Here the Burdens family embark on their quest to bury the family matriarch Addie Burden in her hometown of Jefferson, but not without a variety of impediments and adversities. The area and values of the small town play a large role in impeding their goal and establishing …show more content…
We plan our funerals long before we even have a reason to die.
Evidence: “Addie Bundren dying alone, hiding her pride and her broken heart. Glad to go. Lying there with her head propped up so she could watch Cash building the coffin, having to watch him so he would not skimp on it” (7)
Evidence: “They are country people who live and work on a farm and, so they are close to death in a way that their more distant neighbors and the townspeople are not. Such is apparent with the string of associations throughout the novel that liken Addie to animals.” (modern funeral industry 4)
Explanation: The characters connections with death were limited in diversity. Through they are not phased by death like those who would live in a city, they are exposed to death in animals more than that of people. That is why vardaman continued to call his mother a fish and darl said she was a horse.
Section 2:Death as Right of Passage
Topic Sentence: The perception of death and its importance varied with in characters, but those who found it important put forward a great amount of effort to grant the deceased her final wish of being buried in her home