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Light in August Light in August Ellie Farmer, Ryan Kissinger, Ariana Chambers, Austin Sykes, William Ball, Olivia DuBose Chapter One- A One Way Journey Narrator: Narrator (3rd Person Omniscient Setting: The chapter starts on the road with Lena walking, trying to reach Jefferson. She is eventually picked up by Mr. Armstid and stays at his house. Lena is then taken to Varner’s store where she catches a ride to Jefferson. The chapter ends as Lena and the wagon driver arrive into Jefferson. Plot Points: ▸ Lena is picked up off of the road by Mr. Armstid and is allowed to stay the night at his house with him and his wife. ▸ Mrs. Armstid learns that Lena is not married yet. She gives Lena some money as she leaves the next day to continue traveling in search of Lucas Burch, her claimed “lover”. ▸ Mr. Armstid gives Lena a ride to a local store where she buys some food and catches a wagon ride to Jefferson, the town where Lucas Burch is rumored to be living. Varner, the store owner, tells Lena that he doesn’t know of anyone in Jefferson named Lucas Burch. Varner says the only name close to that that he knows of is Lucas Bunch. ▸ As Lena and the wagon driver approach Jefferson, they spot two columns of smoke, one being the mill and the other being a house on fire. Time Frame: Lena has been on the road for only around a month during this chapter and only a few days pass. Quotes “Following his pointing whip, she sees two columns of smoke: the one the heavy density of burning coal above a tall stack, the other a tall yellow column standing apparently from among a clump of trees some distance beyond the town. ‘That’s a house burning,’ the driver says. ‘See?’ (p. 30) ● This quote is symbolic in that the smoke of the house burning is yellow. In literary terms, yellow symbolizes betrayal and a sort of uneasiness. Initially hard to decipher, the meaning behind this imagery makes much more sense later in the plot. “I told you false. My name is not burch yet. It’s Lena Grove. (p.18)” ● In this quote the reader is actually exposed to two hidden symbols. The most obvious is the theme of the importance of names. Most of all of the names have some sort of message or meaning behind them. Here we are exposed to motif of trees as “grove” and “burch (birch)” are words related to trees. This symbolizes how Lena is more one with nature and struggles trying to fit into society. This quote also relates to the theme of one trying to find an identity. Lena knows that it is severely frowned upon to have a child before marriage and tries to cover that part up Quotes (cont.) “Her shoes were a pair of his own which her brother had given to her. THey were but slightly worn, since in the summer neither of them wore shoes at all. (p.6)” ● Here the reader is introduced to the symbol of Lena’s shoes. Being a pregnant woman, Lena shouldn’t be putting this much stress on her body. Her shoes first represent the physical journey that she is taking to find Lucas. They also represent the more mental and spiritual journey that Lena is on, trying to find her identity and her place in society. Being a pregnant, single woman, Lena is considered an outsider, especially in the “bible-lovin’” south. Author’s Style and Purpose Faulkner opens up chapter one with third person omniscient narration. With this type of narration and Faulkner’s unique modernist style, we are not only allowed to know what the characters are doing but also what they are thinking, consciously and unconsciously. As this novel takes place in the south during reconstruction, it could be important for the reader to know what exactly is going on inside of each character’s head. Faulkner also uses many colloquialisms and phrases that are unique to that area of the south.This way of writing allows the dialect of these character to flourish and allows the reader to get a complete picture of the setting and the society that these characters live in. This style of writing really helps the reader see the theme of the control of fate and freewill as the reader knows what is going on inside each character’s head and how they respond to that through their actions. Chapter Two ▸ Narrator: Byron Bunch ▸ Setting: The Mill ▸ Plot Points: a. Byron recalls first meeting Joe Christmas and Joe Brown. b. He discusses their jobs and boarding status with Miss Burden. c. The relationship between Hightower and Bunch is revealed. d. Lena comes to the Mill looking for the father of her child and Byron falls in love with her. ▸ Time Frame: Starts out with a Byron flashback and then comes back to the present when Lena arrives. Significant Quotes “But it still lingers about her and about the place: something dark and outlandish and threatful, even though she is but a woman and but the descendant of them whom the ancestors of the town had reason (or thought that they had) to hate and dread. “ Page 47 ▸ Miss Burden’s family’s view gave Jefferson a reason “to hate and dread”. They supported Black rights and were punished for it. This quote discusses race and the past. “Her folks come down here in the Reconstruction, to stir up the niggers. Two of them got killed doing it. They say she is still mixed up with niggers. Visits them when they are sick, like they was white. Wont have a cook because it would have to be a nigger cook. Folks say she claims that niggers are the same as white folks.“ Page 53 ▸ This quote is dealing with racism. He is talking about Miss Burden and how she is accepting of Blacks. She is looked differently upon due to her views. Also the use of the N word is obviously racist. “Man knows so little about his fellows.” Page 47 ▸ This is a very profound quote that sums up the book. Secrets run society. Media feeds off the unknown. You think you know what a person is like but they can have a completely different side to themselves. So many people have secrets of hidden parts to their live in this book. Christmas is part black, Joe Brown is a father, and Hightower’s wife. These secrets add some intensity to the novel as well Author’s Style and Purpose This chapter is used as a continuation of the introduction to the novel. We gain knowledge of the past of Joe Christmas, Joe Brown, and Byron Bunch. Faulkner comments many times of race and how a persons race and/or views on race affect their social status in a given environment. Faulkner begins the chapter stating what is known, “Byron Bunch knows this:” and ends with more questions than answers. What will happen when Lena confronts Joe Brown? Byron and Lena <3? Miss Burden likes African-Americans more than the other Jeffersonians, how will that come into play? This creates interest in the reader and a longing to find the answers. He also points out the secrets control certain environments and situations. Chapter Three Narrator- Byron Bunch Setting- Reverend Gail Hightower is looking out his window at the sign he made years ago, and waiting for the sun to set on that Sunday evening. Plot Points- 1. Rev. Hightower thinks about his past and why he built the wooden sign outside his house. 2. Hightower was asked to leave the Presbyterian church where he was a minister. 3. Hightower’s adulterous wife died in Memphis Tennessee while seeing her lover. 4. Hightower refused to leave Jefferson. 5. People now accused Hightower of having relations with a black women and then the Ku Klux Klan beat him. 6. Hightower sees Byron Bunch walking toward his door Sunday evening. Time Frame: Starts out in the present, then goes to Rev. Gail Hightower’s past, and then back to the present. Significant Quotes ▸ “They told Byron how he seemed to talk that way in the pulpit too, wild too in the pulpit, using religion as though it were a dream. Not a nightmare, but something that went faster than words in the Book; a sort of cyclone that did not even need to touch the actual earth.” pg.61-62 Hightower was so interested in the historic aspects the go along with Jefferson and would preach about his grandfather being shot in the Civil War. ▸ “In the middle of the sermon she sprang from the bench and began to scream, to shriek something toward the pulpit, shaking her hands toward the pulpit where her husband had ceased talking, leaning forward with his hands raised and stopped.”pg.64 For some unnecessary reason Mrs. Hightower felt the need to scream during her husbands sermon. This showed how Rev. Hightower is always confused when his wife starts to cry, he doesn’t know what to do. ▸ “It was Sunday morning’s paper which they saw, telling how she has jumped or fallen from a hotel window in Memphis Saturday night, and was dead.” pg.67 This confirms the truth about Mrs. Hightower’s affair on Rev. Hightower. ▸ “Then even members of other churches knew that his own asked him to resign, and that he refused.” pg.69 He is embarrassing the church by refusing to resign and instead of having the talk be about him he is also making it about the church.
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