Q. Would you recommend reading this book? Does it have a good plot?
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I like this book, but agree with the previous answerer that it can be tough to keep track of characters, and you should jot them down and their relation to each other. I LOVE how he switches the point of view, because as the story goes along you see how people misunderstand each other and make wrongful assumptions about each other's motives. Sometimes this is sad, and sometimes it's kind of funny.
Also, most people I know read the book without really understanding anything about the time period in which it's set. Take a little time before starting it to learn about life out in the countryside in the 1920's. It helps make the character's behavior make more sense. The book gave me a better understanding of that time in history than any of my textbooks did, and it was just a good read.
I like this book, but agree with the previous answerer that it can be tough to keep track of characters, and you should jot them down and their relation to each other. I LOVE how he switches the point of view, because as the story goes along you see how people misunderstand each other and make wrongful assumptions about each other's motives. Sometimes this is sad, and sometimes it's kind of funny.
Also, most people I know read the book without really understanding anything about the time period in which it's set. Take a little time before starting it to learn about life out in the countryside in the 1920's. It helps make the character's behavior make more sense. The book gave me a better understanding of that time in history than any of my textbooks did, and it was just a good read.
Does William Faulkner have any books not in the south?
John S
Does William Faulker have any books that aren't set in the deep south? I really want to read William Faulkner but I can't get into any of his books. Can you recommend me a good one to start with or one that isn't that hard to read?
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Nearly all of William Faulkner's Mature works are about the South. Specifically, Faulkner writes about the inhabitants of an imaginary county called "Yoknapatawpha. Not all these stories take place in the South, but their central characters are all Southerners from Yoknapatawpha."
Nearly all his stories deal with various generations of families from Yoknapatawpha. When, for instance, during WWII, someone from Yoknapatawpha ends up leaving the south, Faulkner describes his story as it takes place in france. Similarly, in The Sound and The Fury, one of the five sections takes place at Harvard, following the story of the son of one of the Yoknapatawpha families.
Faulkner was heavily influenced by Charles Darwin, thus his main interest as a writer was to explore the way in which people lived and interacted and made decisions, as if humans were animals, neither good nor evil, but subject to natural necessities and inclinations. He focused on analyzing southern culture, because he lived there, and he was especially interested in the animal-like way in which the southern poor lived, and the huge disparity in living styles of southerners, as a sort of evolutionary process that made the less fit poor and miserable.
Nearly all of William Faulkner's Mature works are about the South. Specifically, Faulkner writes about the inhabitants of an imaginary county called "Yoknapatawpha. Not all these stories take place in the South, but their central characters are all Southerners from Yoknapatawpha."
Nearly all his stories deal with various generations of families from Yoknapatawpha. When, for instance, during WWII, someone from Yoknapatawpha ends up leaving the south, Faulkner describes his story as it takes place in france. Similarly, in The Sound and The Fury, one of the five sections takes place at Harvard, following the story of the son of one of the Yoknapatawpha families.
Faulkner was heavily influenced by Charles Darwin, thus his main interest as a writer was to explore the way in which people lived and interacted and made decisions, as if humans were animals, neither good nor evil, but subject to natural necessities and inclinations. He focused on analyzing southern culture, because he lived there, and he was especially interested in the animal-like way in which the southern poor lived, and the huge disparity in living styles of southerners, as a sort of evolutionary process that made the less fit poor and miserable.
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