Part one of term paper
Fulfilling a promise they had made to their mother, Addie, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman, in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, journey across the Mississippi countryside to bring her body to be buried in Jefferson, alongside her immediate family. Each one, in turn, narrates the events of this excursion as they are perceived. ...

Part two of term paper
... linguistic skills to gain power as narrator. He possesses the ability to pick up on things unsaid and to read other people's actions. Dewey Dell describes his intuitiveness when she says that “ he said he knew without the words, and I knew he knew because if he had said he knew with words I would not have believed…and that's why I can talk to him with knowing with hating with because he knows” (27). He uses his gift of realizing things without them having to actually be told to him to gai ...