The wild Palms If Forget Thee, Jerusalem by JerusalemWilliam Faulkner

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"If a story is in you, it has to come out" (William Faulkner, The wild Palms [if I forget thee, Jerusalem]). An American writer in American and southern literature, Faulkner was a spellbinding author known for experimental style with perfect attention to usage and rhythm. Faulkner's works were highly influenced by own personal interest, history and personal outlook on faith. Being intensely rooted in the old America, the America in which was molded by the First World War.
The fictional works that were made released a perspective of life, portraying into the drawn outlook of making life seem to be disturbing and meaningless. Faulkner's works gave a honest reality of history a subject which really strapped a lust of interest, due to that fact of being a part of the generation of World War I . Faulkner made the courageous decision to be a part of the Royal Air Force cadet pilot in Canada. Consequently causing to miss the war left a mark provoking neglection, which according to Faulkner was the greatest period of history ever to come upon. This emphasized sense of emptiness which could be one of the factors that drove Faulkner to create a whole social order and history to fill in the gap of emptiness.
Illustrated through the novel Light In August, the protagonist missed World War I and lives in a life of absolute violence, both the protagonist and Faulkner shared the sake dream of the civil war. The south which was cut off and was culturally frozen by its virtues and vices was Faulkner's entire life, for instance the south, specifically Mississippi was a place which Faulkner had always lived and known. Sartoris deals with the southern family of Jefferson, Mississippi right after World War I. The Jeffersons whom lives under that ...

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...fate. The protagonist describes to be pushed by an inner force to attended a dance, this force is not defined only interested in making its inner of chronological nature. With no intention of educating the audience with a theory if fatality, destiny is real only when it's experienced while it is not know but only felt.
Authors in general use own personal exposure for muse, which seem to grab the authors interest to the highest degree. Faulkner uses particular interest to create such eye drawing works of. Literature, like beliefs, interest and compassion for history causing the readers to form an intellectual comparison of Faulkner's life to the characters that were created. In every piece of work published is a piece of Faulkner. Writing out of compassion is as writing out of the body, adding personal attachments are techniques used throughout Faulkner's novels.

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