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//As I Lay Dying //

Anse Extended Response Pages 105 -106

Darn them boys. Addie and I raised 'em better than this. Here they are, their mum right next to them fresh from the grave, and they show no respect. That Darl, laughing at nothing. Doesn't that boy know this is a somber n' respectful trip. I know he didn't particularly like her, but she is still his mother. And that Jewel, so rebellious and violent. Doesn't even have the good will to ride with the rest of the family. We need unity in these testing times. I would have thought that at least Jewel would grieve because they were so close. Oh well, I tried to raise a decent, respectful family. At least I can go get my teeth. Lord knows I earned em. http://apimages.ap.org

Jewel Diary Entry Response Pages 156 -164  Dear Diary, My family is useless. That goddamn Darl mocks mama's death, and he mocks me, I should knock his block off. We need to hurry up and get back on track and get moving, but Cash won't wake up, that gimp of a carpenter. Dewey Dell and Vardaman are as weird as ever. Dewey Dell has been acting real strange all of a sudden though, more protective. That pathetic excuse for a farmer, Anse, won't get off his ass, as usual. He makes us kids do all the work, and then complains about it. Tull should be minding his own business. This is a personal family matter, and he's got no right being here. I wish this trip would be over and done with, I wish she never died.



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Cash Visual Depiction Page 165

This picture shows how Addie's coffin was not on a balance. Cash's advice of putting it on a balance was not met, and thus it fell into the river.

Poem Pages 169-176 I hate to invoke the seasons. They dismantle us. We do the same to them. I hate to say the spring. It's become bone-deep routine. Nice going, May, permission or bluster, even the little leaves that top the cottonwoods, you take, shrunk coinage, you take charge and a share of everything, leaving the roots and skeletons of these, who say obscenities, they've been wanting to say them to you all year. with what you've done. do now lat you've done do now, and soon will. Opposites I say, always the most taxing. That one tree without moving willing to walk into the wind all by her heroic lonesome until my eyes move and her branches tie her to a sister next to her. Even my winnowing self, which loves distinctions, confuses her with her. With these actions your world takes off a layer from us. A hand mimes a knife drop, as practice. I'm close to nothing all at once, and all of it makes small sense, as much as talking about the wind as an amount, paid or refused. Or throwing my love as I always do over sleeping things, the slow, and what the wind makes by blowing over, and then throwing myself over my love— This poem helps to summarize Addie's section, about her secret hate of her family.

Peterson, Katie. "Talking About the Wind." //A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts// 21.2 (2009): 553-54. //Literary Reference Center//. Web. 29 Mar. 2010.

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Dewey Dell Extended Response Pages 26 - 28 This is the worst situation I've gotten myself into yet. Darl can't tell anyone I'm pregnant. I swear, I don't know what I'll do. If Darl tells pa, I'll just die. I'll have to kill Darl, that is the only way to keep him quiet. I wonder how Darl knew right away that I was pregnant, he might be a magician or something. It doesn't feel right, but I hope mama dies soon, I need to go to town and get an abortion. Maybe Peabody,that fat old coot of a doctor, can give me one. On top of it all, if I don't get that abortion, Lafe won't help me raise the child. I'll have to run away, I'm so ashamed of this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanneorla/411695803/

Vardaman Visual Depiction Pages 194 - 197

This picture shows how the stench of Addie's old carcass attracted the attention of vultures.

Addie's Reaction Pages 258 - 261 Well, I can't say I'm surprised that Anse has already picked another Mrs. Bundren. I wouldn't expect him to any work around the house. I guess that is the reason Anse ever keeps anyone around, so that they can do work for him, or so he can take advantage of them. He is the complete opposite of the man I really loved, Whitfield. I wonder how those wretched children of mine will respond to her. I wouldn't be surprised if Jewel kills her and Anse the moment they return home. Vardaman will probably pout about it for a while and then move on, he is so utterly stupid. His brother Cash, another imbecile, will just put it on his endless list of things to do. The only child I can see really benefiting is that whore Dewey Dell. She could have help raising her bastard child. I would have enjoyed to see how that nobody of a person, Darl, reacted. Oh well, he is probably almost to Jackson to his very own asylum cell. I bet the new Mrs. Bundren will be regretting her decision to go with that fool. She will soon become tired with looking after those rats, and that buffoon Anse. But once you are there, there is no escaping, she will learn that, just as I did. Actually, I don't even think they will make it back. They might end up drowning in the river. Or, they could run out of food and starve to death. It should be an entertaining trip to watch. I hope they remember me, I hope she whips them, I hope Anse whips them, I hope anyone whips them. I cannot be forgotten, I will not be forgotten!



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Newspaper Article Pages 198 - 205

Faulkner's Voice Pages 239 - 240

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This section starts by Cash going to see Peabody about his infected leg. Cash explains how Anse told Cash to support his leg with cement, and Peabody then goes on a rant about Anse's stupidity and laziness. Cash lies and says that it didn't bother him. Peabody sees through his lie, and continues to bash Anse. Peabody then tests to see how destroyed Cash's leg is which makes Cash blanch. The section ends ironically with Peabody agreeing with one of Anse's earlier points, that Cash is lucky he broke the same leg.

Vardaman Visual Depiction Page 31 This picture shows how the fish Vardaman caught was greater in size than he was.