What Does Abner Do When He Enters Major De Spain's Home

Faulkner
1. What award did he receive in 1950?
In 1950 Faulkner received the Nobel Prize and, at home, the National Book Award.
2. How did Faulkner regard his major works?
Faulkner regarded his major works as a “saga,” a reconstruction of the life of Yoknapatawpha County, his fictional name for Lafayette County in northern Mississippi, where he lived at Oxford (the "Jefferson" of his novels).
3. “The novels of the cycle move on several planes of southern society.” Explain.
“The novels of the cycle move on several planes of southern society,” means that Faulkner wrote about many levels of southern society. He wrote about society with political and financial control, poor whites, blacks of the time and societies of different generations.
4. What is Faulkner’s difficult objective?
Faulkner’s difficult objective was to keep continuously in focus the immediate character, “the human heart in conflict,” while evoking that past which is always present with us.
5. Who is the protagonist in "Barn Burning"? Why?
The protagonist in “Barn Burning” is Colonel Sartoris Snopes also known as Sarty. He is the protagonist because the story is told about him and reveals who he is and what he believes to be right.
6. In the opening scene of Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” what does the Justice order Abner Snopes to do?
In the opening scene of Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” the Justice orders Abner Snopes to “Take your wagon and get out of this country before dark.”
7. How is the campfire scene significant to relating the story's plot?
The campfire scene is significant to relating the story’s plot because it gives the reader an insight of Sarty and the way he thinks.
Identify the following characters:
8. Colonel Sartoris Snopes
Colonel Sartoris Snopes or Sarty is the main character of the story. He is one of four children, the youngest of the two boys.
9. Harris
Harris is the owner of the barn that Abner Snopes is accused of burning in the opening of the story.
10. What did Abner Snopes do during the Civil War?
During the Civil War Abner Snopes hid in the woods from all men and captured (or stole) horses to sell.
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What does Abner do when he enters Major de Spain’s home?
When Abner enters Major de Spain’s home he pushes past the man that answers the door and tracks mud onto Mrs. de Spain’s white rug.
12. What does Sarty do at the end of the story?
At the end of the story Sarty warned Major de Spain of Abnor’s intent to burn Mr. de Spain’s barn. After the story of the news plays out, Sarty heads away from his home toward the dark woods and does not look back.
Hemingway
13. What awards did he receive? When?
Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.
14. “Hemingway embraced the cult of experience.” Discuss three of his life experiences.
Hemingway was in volunteer war service with an American ambulance unit in France. He gained transfer to the Italian front and was seriously wounded. He covered the Greco-Turkish War and was appointed a Paris correspondent.
15. What was Hemingway’s inspiration?
Hemingway’s inspiration was war, both as a personal and symbolic experience and as a continuing condition of humankind.
16. In Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I,” what had recently happened to the landscape?
In Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I,” the landscape had recently been burned.
17. Who is
Hopkins?
Hopkins is a friend of Nick’s. He left in the middle of a fishing trip they were on, some years ago, when he received news that “his first big well had come in.”
18. What does Nick use for bait?
Nick uses grasshoppers for bait.
19. At the end of “Big Two-Hearted River: Part II,” what does Nick resist?
At the end of “Big Two-Hearted River: Part II,” Nick resists the swamp, fishing the swamp.
Porter
20. What did she attempt to achieve?
Porter attempted to achieve a style strictly objective without sacrificing sensitivity.
21. How did she succeed at doing this?
She succeeded by such careful selection and combination of character, situation, and action that the resulting story is self-motivated, without the author’s overt presence.
22. In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” who jilted Granny?
In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” George jilted Granny.
23. Who is Granny Weatherall most anxious to see?
Granny Weatherall is most anxious to see Hapsy.
24. Where is Granny Weatherall when she dies?
When Granny Weatherall dies she is at her daughter Cornelia’s.