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As I Lay Dying Chapter Summary

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Ahmed 1
Abulasrar Ahmed
Professor Schnur
Eng 170W
26 May 2018
Relationship in Salvage the Bone sand As I Lay Dying
In Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage the Bones, depicts the Batiste family, a poor, black family in southern Mississippi living in a place called the pit by the family members. The pit is reflective of the Batiste family’s life which is dysfunctional and deplorable. In addition, William Faulker’s novel, As I Lay Dying , he also manifests a dysfunctional family. The mothers of the both families are dead. Even though the fathers of the families are physically present, he shows no sense of parental affection or concern to the children. Throughout the novels, the authors explores the dysfunctional bond within the families.
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Skeetah copes by focusing on China to the exclusion of almost anybody or anything else. Randall plays basketball and hopes for a college scholarship. He also does most of the caring for Junior. Junior takes his brother as shelter whenever he feels scared. Moreover, Esch has sex with Skeetah’s friend at the age of 14. This shows the lack of morality that the father fails to teach his children due to his negligence towards them.
In As I Lay Dying , Jewel risks his life in order to get his mother's body to Jefferson. Portraying the love he has for his mother. Both Darl and Jewel have special connections with their mother. Cora Tull feels that Darl loves his mother the most when she says, "…it was between her and Darl that the true understanding and the true love was" (Faulkner 24). Though, she makes such evaluation, Cora Tull cannot be trusted as a judge of relationships, as it is shown by her misunderstanding of the relationship between Addie and Reverend Whitfield. Moreover, Darl was just as self-centered like the rest of the Bundren family, but in a more indirect way. Furthermore, as the novel progresses, it clarifies that the journey to deliver Addie to Jefferson is not out of pure dedication to Addie’s wish, but to a sense of familial obligation. Furthermore, this sense of familial obligation is tied up with competitions among siblings and competing for self-interests between

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