https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w The life and works of William Faulkner en-us 2017-04-27 15:07:50 UTC 2017-05-05 13:01:33 UTC hello@padlet.com jake_315031 https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168661974 American writer William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. Faulkner was a great grandson of a civil war hero and was brought up with tales of honor and bravery of his ancestors from Mississippi. Faulkner was a high school drop out but read frequently. He traveled and drifted aimlessly while doing odd jobs here and there to get by. He did have the opportunity to attend the University of Mississippi only for one year as a "special student".  In 1924 Faulkner had his first novel "Soldiers Pay" published and in 1929 his career flourished. In 13 years, Faulkner published 15 book-novels and short stories. Faulkner would bases most of his stories off of the land and people of Mississippi. He gained a his audience by how he experiments with the stream of consciousness and breaks the chronology. However, Faulkner worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1930's and 1940's to earn a living. At the end of World War II, Faulkner's popularity and became more well known. In 1941 he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in literature. When he had passed away, he was regarded as one of America's greatest writers. ]]> 2017-04-27 15:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168661974 jake_315031 https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662191 As a child, Miss Emily Grierson had been cut off from most social contact and all courtship by her father. When he dies, she refuses to acknowledge his death for three days. After the townspeople intervene and bury her father, Emily is further isolated by a mysterious illness, possibly a mental breakdown. ]]> 2017-04-27 15:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662191 jake_315031 https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662456 In many modernism passages like A Rose for Emily, the main character Miss Emily and her family had always had a superiority mentality whenever they interacted with the community that showed how they were isolated and arrogant.
"I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perphaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves." (Faulkner, 518)

Another example of modernism found in A Rose for Emily would be when time went on and the community started to realize it's been a long time since anyone had seen Miss Emily since her fathers death. When she had stepped out she had look like a little girl with a desolate but composed. 
"When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angles in colored church windows- sort of tragic and serene." (Faulkner, 520) 


As people began to pity Emily because she seemed to be braking down before them, they repetitively say "Poor Emily" as if they could care. In actuality, they say how bad of a reputation she sets for herself and the town for the younger generations. That reveals how ironic the community is when they seem as though the care when in reality they don't.
"Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people." (Faulkner, 522) ]]> 2017-04-27 15:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662456 jake_315031 https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662549 2017-04-27 15:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662549 jake_315031 https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662669 During his award speech, William Faulkner uses his time and honor to address how the writers of today need a change in motivation and subject. Faulkner addresses the issues that the modern writer does not use his hardship and the issues of the soul. The writing is no longer of love but lust, and that there is no human element to these pieces, they're written purely for the reason of "when will I be blown up?" not to capture the human spirit. He believes that a poet's spirit should not be be a record of man, but a pillar to prevail. The reason the Noble Committee of Literature chose him "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."  In fact, this was the only winner out of 1949 and 1950, because the committee did not think the other nominees met the spirit and soul of Alfred Nobel.]]> 2017-04-27 15:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168662669 jake_315031 https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168664074 As I Lay Dying(Modern Literature)- story of the death and eventual burial of Addie Bundren, matriarch of the poor, southern Bundren family, and if the meaning of her death and burial journey to that family. 

The Sound and the Fury(Modern Literature)- the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in American Literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the man child Benjy haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal Cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. 

Intruder in the Dust(Fiction)- at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice: it is the story of Lucas Beauchamp, a black man wrongly arrested for the murder of Vinson Gowrie, a white man. Confronted by the threat of lynching, Lucas sets out to prove his innocence, aided by a white lawyer, Gavin Stevens, and his young nephew Chick Mallison]]> 2017-04-27 15:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jake_315031/627b7b1a5v8w/wish/168664074