William Faulkner Research Paper

Inspiration has been thought to be everywhere. For William Faulkner, that wasn’t really the case. For him growing up, he had a hard life, and everyone made fun of him. They called him names all the time. For him, he never got to experience the true peace in his home country. His whole life, the U.S. has been at war. While growing up, the draft of course, was still in session. As many other people, he didn’t want to go to war. He tried everything he could to get out of it. And again, like many other people, he had to go to war. For him, this was more of an inspiration to start writing. After leaving the war, he began writing full time. He did indeed wrote many amount of books, and it even got the attention of some really big authors if the

As his life went on, going through the military, and having lots of failure, one thing he never forgot to do, is not to give up. As a child, we usually have nothing to ever worry about. Our parents are there to take care of us, and make we sure we are okay. Now, as we grow older, things start to change, and you pretty much go from a baby bird if you will, to an independent adult. And as assumed, the same thing happened with William Faulkner. Once an adult, he joined the Canadian, and soon, the British Air Force. “ He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War” After joining the military, on his downtime, he would just write and write and write. This sorta built his interest in writing. Before his writing, joining the military was just a kind of an “escape”, and this led to his wealthy career in writing. In his hometown, he was widely known for his writing. Many people loved his readings, not mainly because he wrote it, but because of the story that he incorporated with it. The stories he wrote really had a lesson to them. This even helped some

In modern day, just no one really cares for books or reading. And for the ones that do still read, a lot of the read electronically. For example one of his really famous fables titled: “Artist or Home” was a really famous fable that was daily back in the 50’s and 60’s. Now, unfortunately, the fable is so unknown by the modern generation, that its as if the fable never actually existed. In the fable, there is a man and an artist just living their everyday lives, until there is a big conflict between them. “ -the subject of the fiction is indicated clearly in the title: the artist as artist, set over against the artist as man. Between the two there is a clear conflict; and it is the latter which is compelled to give way.” As this may have been a really intriguing story in the 50’s and 60’s, today in the modern generation, no one really cares for that type of stories anymore. In the modern generation, no one is going to read his stories anymore. As I said before, one of Faulkner’s main ways of making his stories interesting was being able to connect the reader to everyday problems, and bring them into the story as if it is happening to them. Today, nobody doesn’t cares for that. If anything it would be movies. And because of this, Faulkner has just become a figment of everybodies imagination, just like many of his books. Even