Erika+M

**Poem: (Dewey Dell 26)** As I walked through the cotton field, I had a choice to make. Would my basket be filled or would it be empty? The woods were coming closer and closer. When I looked down in my basket, it was full. I made the choice then to be in the woods with Lafe. No one would ever know what happened. And now my sack is filled and Darl knows.

**Diary Entry Response: (Darl 39)** Darl keeps running after me on our way to town. He always told me "Jewel, do you know she is going to die?" I was getting annoyed by him nagging me with her death approaching. I know that she isnt going to die. Darl picks on me and Dewey Dell and it gets on my nerves. The whole way to town, Darl comes up to me and repeats, "Do you know she is going to die?" I dont believe that what Darl is saying is true. She can't die. "Jewel, do you know that Addie Bundren is going to die? Addie Bundren is going to die?" Why does Darl have to be so cruel to us? Addie Bundren isn't going to die.

I can not believe that she is going to be nailed to the coffin. I won't let her be nailed. I yell at Cash screaming "Nail it shut! Nail is shut!" I just continue to stare at the coffin that Cash is working on. I can't bear to see her be nailed to the coffin. It isn't right. Addie won't be nailed in there if I can help it. "Cash, are you going to nail it shut? Nail it?" That coffin he was making was bothering me. I won't let ma be nailed into that coffin. Why does she have to be nailed? She shouldn't be, and if I can do anything, I will try to stop Cash from nailing her into it.
 * Extended Response: (Vardaman 65) **

**Addie's Reaction: (Dewey Dell 58)**

My poor daughter, if only I could help her. I know that she is in trouble. After her incident with Lafe, I knew something was bothering her. Lafe is the only one that could have possibly have done this to her. All i want to do is to get some help for her. Peabody is here and she could help her. But if Anse knew about it, he would kill Dewey Dell. Anse would leave her to deal with it by herself. All she needs now is to go fix dinner for everyone. She is going to make some greens and bread for dinner, while Vardaman caught a fish this morning. She has to much on her mind to cook his fish. I see her through my window going to the barn. She murmurs something under her breath, i believe she is mumbling about Lafe. All of the sudden she is startled by something. It looks like Varadman. She stands him up and shakes him and then sends him away. She is disturbed again with Peabody there, knowing he could help her. Peabody would give her what she needs. But there would be no money to afford the procedure. If only I could help her in anyway possible. I would do anything for poor Dewey Dell.

**Visual Depiction: (Vardaman 84)** Varadman is making a comparasion between his mother and the fish he caught earlier. He killed the fish, which makes him believe that he has also killed his mother because he killed the fish. He doesn't understand that he had nothing to do with his mother's death. Vardaman doesn't want to be the reason why his mother is dead. Therefore he makes the statement that his mother is a fish.

**Newspaper Article: Vardaman(100)**



**Poem: (Addie 169)** Anse would pass by the school multiple times. Finally I confronted him and he wanted to marry me. So I took him as my husband and then I had Cash. "That was when I learned that words are no good: That words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at." Once Cash was born I felt like my aloneness was violated. Anse now had a word, love, it didnt matter to me. It was just used to fill space and take the shape that needed to be filled. Then Darl came, and I decided that Anse was dead. The affair I had with Whitfield, was an outrageous sin. Jewel then was born as my illegitimate child. The births of Dewey Dell and Vardaman made up fro Jewel. And with their births, I was free to die.

**Extended Response: (Vardaman 194)** We continue to travel to Jefferson. There are more and more each day. Sometimes there are only 4, and the next day there are 7. I watch them as we travel with my mother. My mother is a fish. But she doesn't smell bad. My mother is not in the box. How did she get out of the box? Is it because I put holes in the box? Cash's leg is broken, but mine isn't. Jewel's mother is a horse, and my mother is a fish. When we come to water again, I am going to see my mother. When we reach the upcoming hill, pa will stop the wagon for us to get out and walk. Then we will get back in when we reach the top. Now there are 11 circling the sky, creating a big black circle.

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 * Blabberize: Vardaman 150 **

**Visual Depiction/Collage (Whitfield 177)** Whitfield, the minister, is trying to get the courage to go to the Bundren's to apologize to Anse about his affair with Addie, before she can do it herself. He manages to cross the river even though the bridge is washed away. When he arrives at the Tull's house, he learns that Addie is dead. He believes that everything happened for a reason, and pays his last respects and leaves without admitting the affair.