As I Lay Dying Analysis

How do Steinbeck and Hurston explore the motifs of creation and destruction also present in As I Lay Dying? Why are these elements so significant to all three authors? How does the presence of these elements reflect each author’s perspective of life in Modern America (approximately 1910-1945)? Do you see these elements in any of the other pieces we’ve read this year? Could they be read as the roots of these issues in Modern texts?
Steinbeck, Hurston, and Faulkner share the motifs of creation and destruction in similar yet different ways. In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men the concept of creation is from destruction, Lenny and George, the inseparable duo, of which Lenny counts on George to keep him grounded. Without assistance from George, Lenny
Then, consider the application of this quote to other female characters in the Modern texts we have examined and ensure you have evidence to support your connections. What implications do Modern texts have on issues of race and gender? “One of Hurston's projects in Their Eyes Were Watching God is to examine the effects of silence and the empowerment that arises in the act of breaking free from that silence. She is concerned with the personal growth that comes from giving voice to one's ideas and emotions. While there are numerous examples of silencing in the text, this study will treat those which are associated with imagery, focusing on four main sites of the mule in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Through tracing Janie's negotiation of these sites, we may better understand her movement from a woman silenced by her community, her grandmother, and her first two husbands to a character who is able to exercise her strong, womanly voice by the end of the
Why does each author choose to represent the “natural pattern of [regional] human speech”? How do the limitations of language discussed in As I Lay Dying connect to the context of Modern literature in America from approximately 1910-1945? Do you see the same limitations of language surfacing in any other text from this extended unit? What’s significant about the presence/absence of this thematic element in the other texts?
The quality of the expression of dialect in each of these texts is used to strengthen the credibility as well as the originality of the texts. Modernism was a time period of exploration, authors were figuring out the best way to convey their point, along with their personality through a variety of literary techniques. Faulkner’s way of representing the “natural pattern of [regional] human speech” is by writing in a way that disregards grammar, he wrote what he wanted the reader to believe was the first thing that came to the mind of the characters, he wrote chronologically in order of what would have made sense in the character’s heads, rather than what would have logically made the most sense to the reader. The origin of where the connections lead to and where they came from may seem unclear, yet Faulkner purposefully did this to create an image that is more experienced rather than just simply viewed by allowing for the reader’s to essentially connect the dots for themselves as of to what he