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| What is Faulkner's whole name? |
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| William Cuthbert Faulkner |
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| Where and when was he born? |
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| September 25, 1897; New Albany, Mississippi |
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| Where did Faulkner grow UP? |
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| Faulkner did not finish high school. What did he pursue as a career? |
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| he joined the US air force but was denied admission due to his height |
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| What did Faulkner do in 1917? |
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| joined the royal air force of canada |
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| What Faulkner do in 1919? |
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| returned to MS and enrolled in ole miss even though he never finished high school |
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| What did Faulkner do in 1920? |
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| dropped out of ole miss and began writing |
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| Who did Faulkner marry and when? |
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| Estelle Oldham in 1929; inheriting two step children |
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| In 1930, Faulkner purchased an old antebellum home which he named____. |
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| Throughout his career, he struggled with____and had several extended stays at _____in Byhalia, MS. |
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| drinking binges; Wright's Santorium |
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| What awards did Faulker receive? |
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| novel prize for literature, 2 pulitzer prizes, and two national book awards |
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| When and what did faulker die of? |
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| july 6, 1962; heart attack |
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| Name three of Faulkner's other novels besides light in august. |
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| the sound and the fury, as i lay dying, and sanctuary |
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| What is the name county that faulkner repeteadly uses in his writing? |
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| Yoknapatawpha county is based on what real-life county? |
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| Who is a recurring fictional character in many of faulkner's works? |
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| Who is Colonel Sartoris based on? |
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| Faulkner's great grandfather Colonel William Clark Faulkner |
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| What are the three plot strands in light in august? |
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| lena grove and her search for her baby's daddy; joe christmas and his search for his identity; gail hightower and his search for significance |
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| What does the term light in august mean? |
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| the time of year when animals give birth; horses give birth to foals, etc. |
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| What is the significance of the name "lena grove"? |
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| she leans on other people, rooted in tune with other people |
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| Who is the dietician and her lover? |
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| "And then she would be gone for a day or two; they would see her get on the early train, with her face beginning to get thin and gaunted as though she never ate enough and that frozen look on it as if she were not seeing what she was looking at. And he would tell that she had gone to visit her people downstate somewhere." |
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| This refers to Gail Hightower's wife. She started getting very sick of her husband and she said that he did not satisfy her so she left town every once in a while to go to memphis. Hightower did not want people to know the truth about his wife and wanted it to seem like everything was all good in their relationshiop, so he lied and said she was visiting family. |
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| "White bastards! he shouted. That's not the first your bitches that ever saw...But the car was gone." |
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| "it is now sixty years since her grandfather and her brother were killed on the square by an ex slaveowner over a question of negro votes in a state election." |
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| This quote is about Miss Burden when the narrator is describing her history. Her family came from the north during reconstruction, but she was born in jefferson. She comes from a family that befriended African Americans which foreshadows her relationship/problem with joe christmas. |
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| "yet neither had he ever waited three days to be punished. When he saw the hand emerge from the pocket he believed that she was about to strike him." |
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| "he did not go, and on the second morning a man found him in the woods about a mile from town. He had been tied to a tree and beaten unconscious." |
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| "you don't get enough sleep. you stay awake too much. Maybe you ought to sleep more. How much more? Maybe from now on....He realized then that he was mad and that it wasn't no time to joke him." |
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| This is a conversation between Joe Christmas and Joe Brown. Joe christmas gets mad at Joe Brown one night before bed. Joe christmas tells joe that he should sleep "from now on" meaning that he wants him dead and him to die now. |
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| "He rides thiry miles into the country and spends sunday leading the choir in a country church--a service which lasts all day long. Then some time around midnight he saddles the mule again and rides back to Jefferson at a steady, allnight jog." |
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| This is referring to Byron Bunch. He leads a secret life that only Hightower knows about. Every Saturday evening after work he goes to lead the choir on Sunday morning and is on time to work on monday morning. No one knows he does this though. |
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| "it jingles with coins aas she moves it and upends it and shakes it violently above the top dresser, shaking from the slot coins in a meager dribbling....I reckon it's mine to do with what I like....God knows it was me sweated over them and nursed them." |
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| This refers to Mrs. Martha. Mrs. Martha is the wife of Armstid, who takes Lena Grove into his home in the beginning of the novel. Martha is going to give Lena the money she has saved up sot aht Lena will be able to survive on her own. Martha is a little hesitant to give up this money becasuse she has worked hard to earn it. |
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| When Lena gets the money from Mrs. martha, she goes into town and buys a snack fromt the town store. She buys sardines and she and the store clerk pronoune them "sour deens" |
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| Art Lessons Christmas cards photographs developed |
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| When Mr. Hightower loses his church and his wife, he decides to open another business out of his home where he will provide art lessons, make christmas cards, and develop photos. He advertises this by putting up a sign in the front yard |
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