Wash - William Faulkner
Presentation from Pascale, Mayra and Lisa
Thank you for your attention and your participation :)
Symbols
Questions
- How could Wash solve the problem in a different way?
- Which circumstances would have changed the story?
- Do you see any parallels between "Wash" and the ones we read already?
Creative part
Key-scenes:
- Birth (beginning of the book)
- Bully (p.94)
- Discovery of Sutpens character (p.107)
- Murders (p.108)
Possibilities:
- Writing a poem
- Play a theater
- Draw a comic
Writing Style
- Not chronological
- Not the story line but rather
the feelings are important
Main characters
Main Themes
- Male/Female
- Black/White
- War
- Thomas Sutpen
- Wash Jones
- Milly Jones
Historical Background
American Civil War in 1861
- between the confederate and the Union
- economic, social and political split
- stabilization of the central power
- the final abolishment of the slavery
Author
New Deal 1933 to 1938
- US-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- world economy crisis
- voluntary work service
- monetary reconstruction programme
- reduction of the fabrication
- employment legislation
- disability, old-age and survivors insurances
- Born in Missisippi and grew up in Oxford
- William Cuthbert Falkner --> William Faulkner
- Reported as a volunteer fort the American airforce
- More than 75 short stories and certain novels
- Loved to ride the horse and drunk a lot of alcool (rarely by working)
- Died in 1962 because of an heart attack
William Faulkner