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William Faulkner came from a Southern family From Oxford Mississippi. He was part of the canadian and later the british royal air force. He flew during world war I and studied at the University of Mississippi. He worked for a bookstore and a newspaper for a short time then went to hollywood to be a scriptwriter. But he would work on his short stories and novels at a farm house in Oxford, Mississippi. This book is written in a 1st person perspective. The author is telling it from the perspective of a 33 year old disabled man who can’t talk very well and cries a lot. He isn’t allowed to be left alone and seems attached to a 15 year old girl named Cattie. This book was written as a fictionalized account . The author is talking about how life
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