Chris

__//As I Lay Dying//__ by William Faulkner: Journal Vardaman Poem Section 13 My mother is dead. She died in her bed. She is dead like the fish I caught. Cut up so bad now a fish is what it is not. I run and I cry, because my mother just died. I am so sad I get sick and vomit. I wish that fish was still alive “durn it.” I strike at them and they are run away horses, that was one of my poorer choices. There is warm hot air breathing on my neck. It’s the cow, what the heck! The cow wants to be milked, but I want it to leave. This cow is still near I want it away from here. I shoo the cow and it walks away. God, I hate this day. Just as my tears stop falling I hear Dewey Dell start calling.

Dewey Dell Poem 2 Section 14 He could help me if he knew, but if I told him everyone would find out too. I could get an abortion in town, but if my family found out they would all frown. Lafe is my child’s father, and this pregnancy is a bother. It would all be over if I had a wish, but right now I am cutting Vardaman’s fish. Can’t find the horses, we must look harder then. Quick, someone go tell Vardaman. I don’t know if this baby will fit. If it does it will be by a small bit. Time for dinner grab a dish, we are eating Vardaman’s fish. We can’t find the youngest; I shall milk the cow before the sun sets. The cow wants to be milked before it gets late; even though I am there I make it wait. I look out of the side of my eyes and I see a sneak. It is Vardaman beginning to peak.

Dewey Dell Extended response section 7 Now that I have had time to think about what I have done with Lafe might have been a bad decision. I might have been thinking out loud and now that I think about it that could be a reason why he started to pick into my sack. I could have simply told Lafe to stop picking into my sack, and now I am forced into this situation. I don’t know weather I should have this child or not, but I really regret the choices I have made. I think it would be best to get an abortion, so I won’t have to deal with this problem. I don’t know how Darl found out, he must have seen us or else I was thinking out loud again. I wish I could just get Peabody to give me the abortion. I fear that if he finds out I’m pregnant, then the rest of the family will as well. According to Darl my mother is going to die soon. Maybe after she is dead we will go into town and I will be able to get an abortion there.

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Cash’s Diary Entry on Vardaman section 15 I have to nail the coffin shut once Addie is inside, but Vardaman started getting really scared about that whole idea. I just think he isn’t thinking straight since hi mother died. He did say something about when he was younger he almost suffocated in his crib. He said that some rats were breathing all of his air. He started asking all of these questions like if I was going to nail it shut or not. I just ignored the poor kid. Then, he went on to talking his dad about going to town and he got really excited about a train. He kept asking his dad why he wasn’t a town boy and why he was born in the country. He started asking if his mom was going to town, or farther than town. The he asked the same questions about possums and rabbits. I just feel bad for the poor kid because I don’t think he fully understands that his mother has died and will not be coming back. Picture of Cash (left) making a coffin. From http://apimages.ap.org

Tull Section 31 Extended Response. I had taken my mule and followed the family. When I got there I was amazed to see the levee was still there. Everyone there was staring at me for some odd reason. Jewel looked upset though. The family really wanted to cross the river. Dewey Dell said that Mr. Whitfield crossed it, but I didn’t think that it was such a good idea, because the water had changed over the last couple days. I suggested that the family waits one more night and then Jewel exploded on me telling me to leave. Cash calmed down Jewel. Darl started on my case with jewel then, because they wanted to take my mule across, but I refused to let them. I just hope that they make it across the river. I still think it would be a better idea to wait one more night, but they did it anyway. Tull (left) is helping someone building a house. Tull is one of the more helpful characters in the book. http://apimages.ap.org

Addie's Reaction to Tull's section (16)

These are the nights I cherish. I love the rain. The rain gives a chance for all my children to become sick and cold. They are probably wishing the rain goes away so they can get some sleep, but I love seeing them in pain. The night gets better and better, when Peabody looses his team. He could have saved my life, but I wanted him to leave the room, because I just wanted to end my miserable life. I'm glad Cora had to walk in the rain to tell Tull I died. She deserves to die to so she can find out that religion is completely fake. I can't wait for Cash to finish my coffin. He and Darl and Dewey Dell are the dumbest kids on the planet. Jewel is the only person in the family who has any sense at all. Once Cash finishes, then They will al have to make the trip to Jefferson in order to bury me. Jewel will have to lead everyone else, because they are all incompetent. After Tull talks to Cora he goes back to sleep but is woken up yet again. I love seeing Tull struggle, because he acts like he is so helpful, but he is really just a suck up. This time Vardaman is at the door. He complains to Tull about his fish, because apparently I am the fish. The Moment I had that child I knew that something was wrong with him. He is a very retarded little boy. The Next day Tull finally helps Cash finish the coffin. Vardaman puts two holes into the carcass' face. He is so strange, and his judgement is very, very poor. It is all because of Anse. He is the worst father in the history of fathers. If my family did not die I would have married some other man, but I needed a husband, so we got married. I punished him by making him promise to take my body to Jefferson, but I don't think he will do it. If he will, the family's journey starts soon.

This wordle describes how Dewey Dell felt about peabody possibly giving her an abortion.



This wordle describes Addie's feelings towards her children Cash and Darl. To the right is a picture of Addie from http://apimages.ap.org



Blabberize script

In this final section of the chapter I wanted to do a couple of things. One of which was restore the promise to Vardaman to eat Bananas when they got to Jefferson. A second objective of the final chapter was to make the reader mad at the characters. I attempted to do this by using the character Anse. Most, if not all, readers hated Anses already for his selfish and greedy attitude. One way of going about this was to let him have a succesful trip to Jefferson, and allow him to recieve his false teeth. The other characeters did not obtain what they wanted on their trip. The second way I did this was by having Anse get a second wife. The children would not have respnoded poorly to this except Jewel, because he is the only one that actually cared about Addie. But still, the reader wouldn't have takin this well, because Anse got what he wanted, and the majority of the readers did not like Anse. I wanted the reader to hate the end of the book in order to have the reader react to the book in some way. I hope most readers were able to do this.