Bryan

Bryan's Digital Journal for //As I Lay Dying//

**Journal 1: Visual Depiction/Collage Anse, Pages 35-38**

Anse starts out describing the roads, and how his house is so cut of from everyone else because of these roads. He tells Addie that she is sick, but she insists that she is fine. Anse is upset because he needs to pay taxes and the doctor's bill, and he won't be able to buy himself new teeth. He closes his section by saying that those who curse their luck are people who sin, and Anse thinks that he isn't cursed because he doesn't sin. This was made with Wordle and edited with Sumo Paint.

**Journal 2: Extended Response Tull, Pages 137-140** [] Anse seems extremely anxious to make it to town as soon as he can. Maybe it's to fulfill his promise, maybe it isn't. After everyone is safely across, we head down towards where Cash and Jewel are trying to cross with the wagon. Why they cannot wait, I will never now. I still try to convince Anse, "The river can't get no higher, tomorrow will be better luck," but he keeps on walking towards the wagon. Even I can tell there's going to be something going wrong. She keeps staring at Darl, looking at him with a glare that could kill. No idea why they are so tense, as are Jewel and Darl. Down the creek, I can hear Jewel and Cash arguing over the wagon. Stubborn little child, Jewel is, but his love for his mother fuels his anger. 

**Journal 3: Diary Entry Response (by Dewey Dell) Darl, Pages 39-40** [] Dear diary, Today marks another day that Addie is still with us, but I don't believe she will be much longer. Darl continues to pest Jewel about her inevitable death, yet Jewel doesn't say anything. I can tell he's ready to explode, like he normally does. Today Darl told me, "You want her to die so you can get to town: is that it?" After that, I know he knows my secret, and I have to keep quiet. He knows that I know that he knows, and I ask him if he's going to tell pa. If he did, it would break pa's heart. Darl has become more annoying than ever, and I can't help wonder if pa is suspicious. Well, Peabody will soon be here, to watch over Addie. He's probably going to need some help up to the house, since he is so fat. That's it for today.

 **Journal 4: Newspaper Article Peabody, Pages 41-46**

**Journal 5: Poem Darl, Pages 75-81**

In the lantern light, Cash labors on Noisily, and fumbling the wooden boards, Pap stares at him on the lawn, But doesn't bother to help.

The rain begins to fall, Harsh, sparse, swift, and warm. Pap watches in awe As Cash works on, unfaltering.

Pap runs inside, and Cash continues to work. He returns with raincoats, But I have to smirk Because Cash is already soaked.

**Journal 6: William Faulkner's Voice Vardaman, Pages 65-67** media type="custom" key="5113099" Image from http://apimages.ap.org/

**Journal 7: Addie's Section Peabody, Pages 239-240 [] That lazy, no-good, piece-of-trash Anse. That sorry excuse for a husband, and even a man. How desperate is he to get his teeth as soon as possible? Raw cement on a broken leg? What a selfish and idiotic move, putting Cash in danger like that. I always knew that he was lazy, but I never thought he could get that bad. Cash will be lucky to keep his leg, let alone walk. Lucky he broke the same leg twice? Huh, it won't really matter if Cash cannot walk again, now will it? And Darl, he is at least smart enough to realize that the cement would take the skin off of Cash's leg. Why didn't he speak up? Now, he is on his way to the asylum, although he may be the most sane of all of them. Oh well, Cash is in Peabody's care, and Peabody realizes Anse's laziness. Even right now, as I think, Anse is returning the spades that he BORROWED instead of bringing in the first place. Honestly, there never was a more lazy man that ever existed. But, in the effort to bury my body in Jefferson, I have been able to make ALL of them suffer. I knew my plan would work. And Jewel, my precious Jewel, has taken the best care of me at all times. My savior, who saved my lifeless corpse from water and fire. I knew he wouldn't let me down. **

**Journal 8: Visual Depiction/Collage Darl, Pages 156-164**   This is after Cash and Jewel have crossed the river and Cash has broken his leg. He is vomiting, because of his pain, and is concerned about where his tools are, and Jewel, Tull, and Darl go to the river to find them. 

 **Journal 9: Visual Depiction/Collage Darl, Pages 226-231** media type="custom" key="5108325" 

<span style="color: #b80000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **Journal 10: Visual Depiction/Collage Vardaman, Pages 210-211** <span style="color: #b80000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This image describes when Vardaman is asking Darl where the buzzards go at night. Vardaman later decides to find out where they go while they stay in the barn.