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        <title><![CDATA[ 
There are several detailed essay topics already available on e-notes:...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ 
There are several detailed essay topics already available on e-notes: here are a few more -
1) Analyse the positive and negative effects of using multiple narrators to tell the story.
2) What does each character gain from the journey to lay Addie to rest? Which character gains the most?
3) How would key events in the novel differ if told from one perspective? Review a chosen section and re-tell in the third person. Present a commentary on...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here are a few possibilities:
1) Compare each of the sibling's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here are a few possibilities:
1) Compare each of the sibling's orientation to their mother's illness and eventual death. Tell in what ways their reactions are the same. In what ways are they different? Who is most dedicated to the mother? The least?
2) Some parts of the narrative are imagined. What character or characters were not present for certain events but spoke about them anyway? Why did the author add these visions? What purpose could...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 20:14:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What would be a good essay topic for the novel As I Lay Dying?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would be a good essay topic for the novel As I Lay Dying?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:47:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[16th Narrator of As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Writing Assignment]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[As I Lay Dying Unit Plan]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[As I Lay Dying Addie Chapter Email Writing]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Darl
In many ways, Darl is different from the other Bundren family...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Darl
In many ways, Darl is different from the other Bundren family members. He is highly intelligent, sensitive, and intuitive. His language is perceptive, observant, poetic. 
Consider all the family members' motives for going to bring their mother's and wife's remains to Jefferson.  Darl is the one who is truly troubled by the terrible disrespect to their mother's memory on their journey.  The coffin gets lost in the river, the wet body...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:08:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In As I Lay Dying, who do you think was the main character and why?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In As I Lay Dying, who do you think was the main character and why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:30:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In As I Lay Dying what is the importance of the names given to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In As I Lay Dying what is the importance of the names given to the children Darl and Jewel?  Is there any other meaning?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:22:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One of Faulkner's themes in "As I Lay Dying" is that of identity. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of Faulkner's themes in "As I Lay Dying" is that of identity.  Vardamen, the baby of the family, seeks to identify himself in relation to other members of his family.  He repeats these identifications saying repeatedly, "Darl is my brother" and "My mother is a fish."  After he catches a a big fish and Anse cooks it, Vardamen begins to confuse the big fish with his mother.  When Pa tells Jewel to leave the horse because that will all go...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:13:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Vardamen call his mother a fish, and Darl call her a horse?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Vardamen call his mother a fish, and Darl call her a horse?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:08:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Could you be a bit more specific with your question?  As I Lay Dying is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Could you be a bit more specific with your question?  As I Lay Dying is a fairly intricate book, and I'm not sure what you are referencing.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 19:11:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is described as doing the job it was sent for and them moving on?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what is described as doing the job it was sent for and them moving on? in "As I Lay Dying" by Faulkner]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:44:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dewey Dell rationalizes that her pregnancy was not her fault. She and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dewey Dell rationalizes that her pregnancy was not her fault. She and Lafe were picking cotton near the woods &quot;and the secret shade,&quot; and she said, &quot;will I or wont I [have sex] when the sack was half full because ... if the sack is full when we get to the woods [as they pick down the cotton rows] it wont be me. She means it is inevitable that she has sex with Lafe: &quot;if the sack is full, I cannot help it.&quot; Lafe cleverly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:31:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Dewey Dell explain why she got pregnant in &quot;As I Lay...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Dewey Dell explain why she got pregnant in &quot;As I Lay Dying&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:25:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The deep vile self absorption of the characters is balanced by the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The deep vile self absorption of the characters is balanced by the ridiculous ends they pursue for ultimately selfish goals. The horrific treatment of Addie's coffin, the effects of the water, the heat and the fire create an image that is so uneasy it is only consumable with laughter. Dark humor accentuates the difficulty of the scene instead of distracting from it. 
Vardaman is so lost and forgotten that the reader's burden of empathy is too...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 06:50:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Faulkner balance humor with grotesque and what effect does the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Faulkner balance humor with grotesque and what effect does the tension between humor and grotesqueness have on the overall story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2008 14:13:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grotesque refers to abnormal or macabre characters or incidents...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grotesque refers to abnormal or macabre characters or incidents presented in a mix of comedy and pathos or horror creating something like a &quot;sick joke.&quot; As I Lay Dying is full of the grotesque. One example is Anse's decision to set Cash's broken with cement because Anse is too cheap to pay for a doctor to set it properly. Doc Peabody says Cash will likely limp for the rest of his life; Cash never once complains. Darl's belief that...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thank you very much]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thank you very much]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:11:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On what parts of the novel &quot;As I Lay Dying&quot; can we can find...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On what parts of the novel &quot;As I Lay Dying&quot; can we can find elements of grotesque?]]></description>
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