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Wash - William Faulkner

Presentation from Pascale, Mayra and Lisa

Thank you for your attention and your participation :)

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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

  • Subjective
  • Dialects

  • Black stallion
  • Scythe
  • Wash

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

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