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once again I can't copy and paste (ugh) but 236 has a lot of good ones about Anse and Addie's character traits and Addie's "journey home"

"The love and devotion Anse ostensibly shows for his wife may be, from his point of view, partly genuine, but his motives are also self-serving. Ironically, Addie had despised him for years, calling him dead and the promise she asked of him, that she be buried with her ancestors, had no meaning for her, except as a cruel and capricious trick"

This source provides a good overview of the novel. It also sums up the whole situation with Anse and Addie and their real motives that drive them, contrary to the standard of love.

"The most prolific narrator is Darl, the second-oldest son, who has unusual perceptive abilities but is committed to an insane asylum for setting fire to a barn in a futile attempt to end their ridiculous journey, a ten-day ordeal in July without the aid of embalming"

This source provides a short but thorough analysis of the basic themes in the novel. The quote focuses on Darl, and his seemingly insane actions, which also seem very reasonable. This goes along with the theme of sanity vs. insanity.

"When coping with a death, you may go through all kinds of emotions. You may be sad, worried, or scared. You might be shocked, unprepared, or confused. You might be feeling angry, cheated, relieved, guilty, exhausted, or just plain empty."

Grief is an emotional, physical, or spiritual ramifications experienced after the loss of something precious. This website focuses of humans' reactions to grief and how to cope with sudden loss. This website is catered to the teenage audience and perspective. The website gives a general overview of the ways grief can manifest in daily life and ways to cope with it. The website emphasizes the importance of confronting and dealing with grief. This relates to the different ways grief appears in each character of As I Lay Dying and the inability of them to deal with the death of Addie.

"In As I Lay Dying, Anse Bundren is a grotesque character partly because of his moral deformity: his lack of self-understanding, his parasitic and manipulative relations with others, his pious posturing."

"Insofar as the journey seemed to be a collective effort courageously undertaken by the whole family for the whole, involving heroic suffering and heroic action, that perception is undermined by the sudden dismissal of Addie, the expulsion of Darl, and the scurrying aftermath of selfish pursuits."

This article discusses the use of grotesque art in As I Lay Dying. Grotesque art is art with bad manners that challenges ideals and notions of proper order with dissonant elements. The article emphasizes the backwardness of the events of Addie's burial like the burying of a week old stinking corpse. The article also highlights the unusually motives each narrative maintains through their journey to bury Addie even though their sole concern should be about the burial of the matriarch of the family. This article would support an essay dwelling on the detachedness the Bundren family experiences.

This Frankenstein site, published by the government, covers all of the major societal issues in Frankenstein. This particular article focuses on the Monster's desire to have a mate that can relate to his problems and spend time with him. Frankenstein scorns his creations wish for love, and the result is more destruction to his world.

This article is interesting, as it portrays the book of Frankenstein to be a "hideous progeny", similar to the monster himself. It also talks about other subliminal messages that the novel contains, including the effects of Frankenstein's image of the creation. He originally attempted to make it have gigantic stature to make it better than human beings, but the lack of physical harmony on the creature actually makes it horribly grotesque.

Darl and Jewel are shown to have a great deal of tension on the journey to bury their mother, Addie, in Jefferson. While each family member has their own selfish reasons to want to reach Jefferson, Jewel is the real driving force behind the trip due to his love of Addie. Darl, on the other hand, slows the trip down in direct opposition of Jewel. His jealousy leads him to transition to an antagonistic figure.

Each member of the Bundren family in Willam Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying is unique and memorable, but the most complex of these characters is the second son.

Darl is sent away by his remaining family to an insane asylum at the end of the book. However, his thoughts and actions during the trip were sane, especially when viewed against those of his family. His omniscient point of view may be eerie to Dewey Dell and Jewel, but in the end Darl understands the true nature of his family.

The nobel prize-winning author represented his native south in his novels. His characters show the rise of the south and its decadent fall.

This site discusses the grief process of young children. In a normal situation, kids are typically suppose to do a lot of questioning to somehow rationalize the situation. In AILD, however, we see that Vardaman is unable to ask these questions, which is detrimental to his growing process. 

This NYTimes article discusses how people cope with death through various means of art and communication--specifically writing. The authors interviewed in this article explained how this form of communication was the only way they could understand what happened, thus saving them from the insanity of being lost. The Bundren family copes with Addie's death in no communicative way. As this important outlet does not exist within the household, it may well explain the strewed psychological states of many of the characters. 

"When we are born we are conscious only of ourselves, we are the universe. We perceive little  other than our basic needs, and if these needs are met we are content. As our consciousness  expands we become aware of a world outside ourselves. We discover that there are people,  places, and things around us, and that they fulfill our needs" "Most children, through experiences over a period of time, come to realize that the outside  world cannot provide all their wants and needs. They begin to supplement what is given to  them with their own efforts." This article discusses how children grow to self sufficiency when they realize their is more to the world than their own selfish needs. We see, however, that in AILD almost none of the characters grow out of this childish ideology.

This article focuses on Faulkner's use of satire and biblical references in As I Lay Dying. His use of fire and water as disasters that the Bundrens must overcome recalls references of biblical stories.

Another one that I can't copy quotes from, but it discusses religion and how it is used ironicly during the course of the Bundrens' lives

"Most of humanity rests comfortably on the idea that even if no one else loves us, our mothers still will. But a new study casts some uncomfortable doubt on that assertion. It suggests women may be biologically programmed to love children who are healthy and most likely to live."

This LA Times article talks about the nature of unconditional parental love and a new study that contradicts it. Addie Bundren's hate of her children, excluding Jewel, does not parallel the way that most parents feel about their children. However, a new study has shown that unhealthy or imperfect children may not attract the same love as healthy children. Perhaps Addies imperfect view of her children, and their father, led to her complete lack of love for them.

"In this sense, the roads in the novel function as the intersection of the family and the new age of the southern rural community."

This article relates the roads that the Bundrens take in burying their matriarch to a crossroads of family life in the rural south. Instead of a traditional close family unit, southern families at the time the novel was written were beginning to separate and take different paths in life. The transition is described in the Bundrens' bumpy road to Jefferson to bury Addie.

This article discusses how Victor Frankenstein transcends the bounds of nature and creates an artificial human being. This creation seemed within reach at the time, as new scientific discoveries were being made constantly, including human mastery of electricity.

This talks about the importance of family communication in a more modern sense, yet they values still hold true to AILD and Frankenstein. It discusses how children raised with poor communication skills cycles into family crisis, confusion and lack of self-esteem. These are all things faced by the characters of these 2 books. 

This article discusses the importance of outward expression after the loss of a family member, despite how close they were. This display of emotion helps one to deal with the loss, lessening the probability that it will later turn into a mental illness. Following Addie's death, with the exception of a few silent tears shed by Vardaman, and Jewel's anger outbursts, very little display of emotion is held, thus explaining the family's worsening state.

This site talks primarily about younger children s understanding of death, and what parents should do to help their young ones cope with the phenomenon. The thought processes spoken of on this site reflect those thought by Vardaman