Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Interesting Things on Faulkner: Activity 1

       Faulkner started to enjoy reading and writing at a very young age, you could say he was a prodigy in these subjects. He spent most of his life in the south, this allowed him to grow up experiencing the southern values. He saw the racism against the African- Americans and how the south was still effected by the past. A quote by Faulkner was, "The past is never dead." The past is always influencing the future, no matter how much we wish to move on from the past and change, we will still be influenced by what has happened because we cannot erase memories. Faulkner won a nobel peace prize and claimed that the prize was not for him as a person, but for his works. Faulkner also talked of how man is immortal because they have a soul saying, "I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail."Faulkner seems like he was a very motivational person and he could speak on a lot of issues. He is optimistic because he believes that  humans will not only live to figure out a way to survive, but man will live to prevail and to succeed.

2 comments:

  1. Very well written and informative blog about Faulker. If you have netflex you can view an artsy movie that was produced on a Faulker book, "As I Lay Dying." Love - Nana

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  2. good start, be sure to include your own voice with this kind of writing

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