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Journal number 1, Anse Bundren pages 35-40 Done in Wordle Anse Bundren is all of the above, most of all self-centered. He is a redneck tightwad who cares about no one but himself. He is a lazy father and a selfish husband. He hasn't done a full day of work since he was ten and he is more concerned about his false teeth than he is about burying his wife. He is overall one of the more despicable humans in the story; a selfish, crude, cheap redneck.

Darl’s poem section, pages 75-81 Journal number 2

Why?

I am empty for sleep Wishing for dreams Slumber dark and deep Am I? Jewel is because He cannot Be otherwise. Sleep in a strange room Empty for sleep, Not but full. What is existence? I don’t because I wonder Jewel does, because he is He is what he isn’t, But not what he is Jewel is, Addie Bundren Must be. The wagon is, Because it was. Sleep is not. Rain and wind are, Because they were. I lay under a strange roof thinking often of home. But, Why?

Peabody's section pages 41-46 Extended Response Well, Anse finally sent for me, his wife has been dying for how long now? And of course he just now sends for me. Anyway, they pulled me up the side of a mountain to visit their pigsty of a house (Why can't they live near Jefferson like normal folk? Because they aren't normal folk.....). I got there just in time too, I was unable to save her, thank God, and drag her back to miserable life with an uncaring husband and that carved-of-wood Jewel. I still don't see why she loves //him// of all of her children, Darl may be queer, but he cares more than the rest. Anyway, I wouldn't have had to be pulled up the side of their God-forsaken mountain if I didn't owe more than $50,000 in debts. The fool, Anse says he didn't call me earlier because of money, why does he think I owe so much in debts? I have never heckled a man for payment. Either way, I knew as soon as I walked into that room, God had been merciful, and she was going to die no matter what I did. She knew it too, about a minute after I got into her room, I was shooed back out as quickly as I had arrived. As I left, the strangest thing happened, Addie Bundren spoke, she actually spoke, I honestly doubted that she had the energy to speak anymore. She yelled, "Cash, you, Cash," I suppose she wanted to see her coffin, and die in peace, thank the Lord for that. Doctor Peabody

Addie's response to Vardaman's section pages 150-151 Oh my poor poor body! All I want is to be buried in Jefferson, my hometown, and my fool of a family can't even do that, of course my youngest son and my pregnant hussie of a daugter can stand on the one bank of the river out of the way, but ANSE? If I had known he would be so useless in the long run, I never would have married him, maybe I would have died happy. Oh no, the cart just tipped over, Darl jumper clear beforehand, but what of Cash and my dear, darling, illegitimate Jewel? And that Vernon, standing on the bank, just watching, HELP me you idiot, don't just stand there. You're almost as bad as my layabout husband! And my poor little Vardaman, he still thinks I am a fish, the poor dumb boy. None of my children are geniuses, but Vardaman my be the most helpless. He keeps shouting at Darl to catch me and hold me. Darl doesn't have me of course, he may have common sense, but he could have at least tried. Vardaman is going to be upset when Darl doesn't have me. I don't think he's realized I'm in that coffin Cash made, and that Darl couldn't have grabbed it if he had tried. I was right, see? Vardaman is yelling how Darl let me get away, I was a fish, but he let me get away. He doen't even see my poor Jewel foundering in the water with that horse of his, or his brother Cash trying to right the cart again. I don't see my body yet. Where is it? If my lazy husband had gotten on his way sooner I could be buried already. Instead, I have buzzards following me. Poor Vardaman, poor poor Jewel, stupid, dense, lazy Anse!

Vardaman's response to Addie's section pages 169-176 I knew it! My mommy has to be a fish, cause she swum out of her box and away. It has to be because she is talking to me.she says how she met Anse (Is that daddy?) and had us children, she says she had debts to Anse (I think it is daddy) and she had to have three children to pay them off. She says she had Cash first, the Darl, so that is two. But she says she had Jewel, and she says he is negative one. How can Jewel be negative one, Mommy always liked him best of all? Then she had Dewey Dell to make up for negative one Jewel, and that makes two again, but Dewey Dell and Jewel are two, so it has to be more than two, right? Then she had me to make her three. I don't get it, I'm number five. I have to be five, cause Jewel can't be negative one so Dewey Dell can't negative him. So that is more than three. Dewey Dell and Jewel is one and one. Cash and Darl and me is one and one and one is three, right? So one Jewel and one Dewey Dell and one Darl and one Cash and one Vardaman, that makes five! Five of Cashdarljeweldeweydellvardaman children, not three. I do maths better than mommy does maths.

Moseley's section pages 198-205  ​ This girl walked into my drugstore today. At first I thought she was just browsing, and would maybe buy something. After a few minutes I went to talk to her, and so I thought that maybe she didn’t need just anything, maybe she needed birth control. I was wrong yet again. This poor girl was two months pregnant, and wanted an abortion. The father, a man by the name of Lafe gave her ten dollars to get the child aborted. I had to tell her no. I said that ten dollars would not be enough, nor would be ten thousand. I, being a man of the Christian faith, refuse to be a party to the termination of an unborn child. She left after that and went back to her family. It was easy to see because they were parked in the middle of the street, and the marshall was yelling at them. In the back of their wagon was a filled coffin. It stank like only a rotting corpse can. Laying on top of the coffin was a boy with a broken leg. He looked pale. It turned out that the family had come into town to buy cement to set the boy’s leg in. What a stupid idea, why risk your son’s leg, when there is a doctor down the street? This family seems to have a story behind them, and I’m not sure I want to know what it is. ~Moseley

News response to Cora's section pages 166-68

Darl's section pages 218-22

The word fire is the largest because it is the form Darl's madness takes, and the main focus of the chapter, Jewel because he saved Addie from the fire, the fire was in a barn, and the rest just detail what happened. The main theme is fire, in fulfillment of what Addie told Cora, and what Tull said about the Bundren's determination, and it is like how Addie's final revenge takes place, burning Darl's mind, and dragging the rest of the family down with it.

Poem about Darl's final section pages 253-54

Yes?

Darl went down to Jackson-town There forgot whether up was down Flipped over the roof and burned a barn Tried to make Addie's body come to harm

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Darl went down to Jackson-town, Tried to fly but fell far down With wings of stone and feet of dirt and neglectful mother buried in the dirt.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Darl went down to Jackson-town Climbed on the crazy train and came not down Instead trapped in a world of fantasy Doomed to rant, you see?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Darl went down to Jackson-town Went over the moon chased by hounds Now his family eats Bananas forgetting their grief

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Why he went down to Jackson-Town? To bury his mother Down in the ground Neglected by all Truely perceptive Now in the nuthouse All is corrected Addie got her revenge Darl paid for Anse's folly Isn't that why he went crazy? Over the moon On the train, but not down? Of course he says See?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Cash's Section pages 258-261

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