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= = Journal Entry #1: Addie's response to Dewey Dell's section p26

[] Oh Dewey Dell, If I could only come back to slap some sense into her! I thought for this whole time she were just picking cotton. Every day, I asked her to just pick the cotton and get some help from that farm help boy. How could she do this to me? My daughter, my one and only daughter, going to get with child from the stupid farm help boy Lafe. Hasn't she learned anything from all these siblings i gave her? Hasn't she learned anything from all the children I've had? She'll see soon enough. When that child of hers is born, she see what she did. And I hope to God that my stupid husband will fire that stupid boy. He's stupid, she's stupid, and now they'll have a stupid child. I swear, that girl's got nothing going on in that head of hers. How could simple cotton picking come to this nonsense? Well, its already happened now, and nothing I can say can change it. I think I raised that stupid girl to be a decent mother. She can cook, and clean, and I taught her some childcare with Vardaman. 'Course Lafe had to just waltz on out on her. Don't think I won't be visiting him at night! I just pray to God that she don't go get no abortion. I know I'm dead and all, but you can't just go to town now and do what you want!

Journal Entry #2: Vardaman section p.84



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Journal Entry #3: Diary entry for Tull's section p152 __Anse__- rationalizing why he stayed out of the way [] Dear Diary: I knew Cora never liked me and my way of raising children. She say's I'm not a man and I'm lazy, but I disagree. I stayed out of the wagon fiasco to teach my boys. If I do everything for them- Darl, Jewel, Cash and even Vardaman- they will never learn how to be really strong men when they have a family of their own. My father did the same to me when I was young. I worked hard, so hard I got sick. I'm teaching my boys valuable lessons for their future. It may not seem like it, but I am. Doing all this work to bury Addie is good for them. She would have been mighty proud of them. So whatever Cora Tull thinks is just her own naive opinion. And besides, I need to focus and getting them teeth.

Journal entry #4 Blabber for Vardaman's section p150

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Journal Entry #5: Whitfield's section p177 This picture shows the part in Whitfield's section when he wakes up from thinking about his terrible sin. He says to have "wrestled with Satan" over his sin, and wakes with victory. He confesses to God and he believes that God told him to return to the house and confess his sin there too. It is believed that his sin is that he had a child with Addie. When he goes to confess, Addie is already dead.

Journal entry #6: Extended response to Cash's section p.165

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They would have to put something under it to keep it level. They could put some boards under it and some rope over it maybe. That's the only way to make it balance. It has to balance. If it doesn't, the nails could come loose and my mother could fall right out. And it must be balanced now! I can't think about anything else until this is taken care of. No one seems to understand that about me. I want to finish what I start before I move to something else. Like finishing the coffin for instance; I had to keep working until it was done and I could start anything else. I get to confused if I try to do to many different jobs at once. And then they come out sloppy. Ma's coffin could not be sloppy! I would feel forever guilty if that coffin wasn't perfect.

Journal entry #7: Poem for Vardaman's section p.210

Black and soaring through the sky They fly back and forth waiting Waiting for us to leave the coffin The vultures in the sky.

Vardaman chases them with no luck They always come back no matter what He wants to follow them into the night The vultures in the sky.

'Where do they go at night?' he asks He will find out when they stay in the barn But they might remain around The vultures in the sky.

Journal entry #8: Woodle for Moseley's section p.198

media type="custom" key="5102057" This woodle shows the important words from Moseley's section. In the section, Dewey Dell comes in to the drug store and wants to get medicine for the abortion. At first Moseley questions her to find out what she wants, but she doesn't really want to say it. When he finally realises what she wants, he says he doesn't have it. He is a christian man, and cannot give her that, even for her ten dollars. At the end of the section, the family with the coffin the wagon are described and the marshal is telling them to leave. The smell of rotting Abbie is disturbing the town.

Journal entry #9: Addie's section p.169 This picture shows the beginning of Addie's section when she talks about her teaching career. She says that after school was over she would go down the hill to the river and secretly hate all her students. It is very odd that she does this since usually teachers like their children and she is also a mother. And she also does not show much love for her children either.

Journal entry #10: Darl's section p. 207- Cash's diary entry  []

Dear Diary, Today they put cement on my leg. Hopefully it will help it heal, but I'm not sure. It real cold, but it feels fine. I don't want to be a burden, so I keep saying its fine. Our efforts need to be on getting my mother in the ground, not my leg. The pain makes me vomit. It just gets so intense sometimes. But Dewey Dell cleans me up. When we got to a hill, I had to get out and walk. It really hurt, but I can't be a burden. All I need is my tools by my side, that's it. And for the coffin to be steady. If its not balanced, my mother could fall out.