William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

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A book should not be judged by some words found in the passage, it should be judged bythe overall message and plot. Faulkner’s book, As I Lay Dying, is a very unique piece of workthat should not be broken down in parts but to be understood as a whole.William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He was also born into a familywhere there had already been writers, he would always say he wanted to be a writer just like his“granddaddy” (Blotner 9). Even though Falkner was very limited to education, he read a lot ofimportant literature such as: The Greek and Roman classics, the Bible, the works of WilliamShakespeare, the English Romantics, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot (Atchity, “As ILay Dying” Masterplots, Literary Reference

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