Molly



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**__Jewel 14-15 (Extended Response)__**
 The sound of that stupid saw will not get out of my head. I wish he would just put it down so I could listen to my own thoughts. I don't even know why Addie even would want to see the coffin boards it's just a reminder. These annoying people come and stare; I just wish they would go away. If I could take Addie and run I would, just her and me alone with all the time in the world. She just lays there on the bed looking at the boards of her coffin. If I was a carpenter it would be me making those boards and she would watch me work all day. Cash, he limps around and all but if I was in his shoes... I just wish she would get better. The sawing would stop and these goddamn people would stop coming around poking their heads in our business. If she would only get better then things might be tolerable around here.



**__Darl 47- 52 (Newspaper Article)__ **




__**Vardaman 84 (Visual Depiction)**__
Vardaman states in this section, "My mother is a fish." That is all. Earlier Vardaman killed a fish, and soon after Addie dies. He is trying to make sense of his mother's death and the connection to the fish is his way of giving reason for her death. Each of the characters has their own way of coping with Addie's death and Vardaman does this by relating it to a dead fish. Though it seems silly and irrational his young mind was able to connect the two in order to come to this conclusion. His rationalization is interesting and this section gives the reader a good look into the way that Vardaman's mind works.



**__Cash 96 (Diary Entry by Jewel) __**
Dear Diary,

I don't understand how hard it is to lift up a damn coffin. "It won't balance. It won't balance." I don't care if it won't balance just put it on the wagon and move on with it. It's already going to take us and extra three days to get to Jefferson because the stupid bridge is flooded. Cash can really be a pain sometimes. If he has his mind set on something and it doesn't get done he won't shut his mouth. Why does Mom even want to be buried in Jefferson anyway? The only reason Anse is even putting any effort into this whole thing is because once we get to town he can get his damn teeth. He doesn't even care about her. How hard is in to get a coffin on a wagon? We just have to throw it on and go! "Pick up! Pick up!" Damn it! I'll do it myself! If that is what gets us going to Jefferson. There, now its done!I just want this all to be over. Sometimes I feel like I don't even belong in this family.

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​ Dear Diary,

Anse is trying to figure out where he can get another team. If that idiot wouldn't have made us ford the river we wouldn't be in this mess. Cash is really hurting so I gotta go out and find Peabody. I asked everyone that I came across but he was nowhere to be found I think they said he was somewhere around Inverness. Then I ran into Uncle Billy, he's a horse doctor, and he told me that he would be able to help Cash so I brought him along back with me. The next morning Anse said that he had purchased a team with mortgages on some of the farm equipment and some other things. I knew right then that he swapped my horse. That man is so damn selfish he does whatever it takes for himself even if it includes taking Cash's money and MY horse. I worked for that horse, he had no place to swap it. "Hell" I can't take this family anymore. I just can't do it. I can't stay here I have to leave. Damn it! If he thinks he is getting my horse he can't have it because I'm taking him with me. Damn it!...I can't do that to my mother. If they need my horse to get her to Jefferson then I guess I can give it up. I'll start back toward the Snopes farm now that way Anse can have the team by morning.





__**Vardaman 194-197 (Poem) **__
One. Two. Three. Four. High in the sky they fly all day I don't think they will ever go away. They form a circle With feathers black as night. They sit on the barn waiting for their prey But I won't let 'em get her, there ain't no way. Cash is hurt and Pa says we shoulda' left him But he comes along layin on the coffin back in the wagon. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. They circle around as we climb up the hill Now at the top there are ten looking down.

__**Moseley 198-205 (Addie's Reaction)**__
 What in the world is that girl thinking? She makes the stupid mistake of going off with the farm hand and gets herself pregnant and now she wants to get an abortion. Sometimes I just don't understand that girl. I myself have made mistakes but she won't tell her father because she is afraid it will kill him. That is the furthest thing from the truth, her daddy was dead long ago and she doesn't even know it. The Lord wants all his children to live and by trying to get that medicine in Mottson she is killing one of God's children. I'm glad that the store clerk wouldn't sell it to her. She and Lafe need to take responsibility for their actions no matter what. Dewey Dell is so young and though she may not be the brightest girl she could've made a good life for herself away from Anse and out of this town. That clerk is right she should take that money and marry Lafe it would be in her best interest. I hope she realizes that what that clerk did for her was for her own good. Now she is forced to face the consequences for her careless actions, unless of course she finds another way out of this mess that she has created for herself. I sure wish that Anse would hurry up and get my body to Jefferson. Typical Anse takes his good old time only worried about himself, and his false teeth. My family was forced out of a town trying to fulfill my final wish all over a little smell. Maybe that is just what Anse needs to get me in the ground. Is that too much to ask? Serves him right for being dead all those years. Either way the odor can't be as bad as they all say it is. Cash with his broken leg, he must be hurting so very much. I just want to get in the ground so I can rest in peace among my ancestors. Then I won't have to deal with my family any longer.



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