For the metalcore band, see As I Lay Dying (band). To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. Please discuss this issue on the talk page, and/or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. This article has been tagged since October 2006. As I Lay Dying is a novel published in 1930 and written by American author William Faulkner. The novel, which Faulkner himself referred to as a "tour de force", was the author's fifth and is read in many schools and colleges across the United States, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking countries. The title comes from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey when Agamemnon is speaking to Odysseus which Faulkner would often recite from memory: "As I lay dying the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Christ Figures in As I Lay Dying 3 See also 4 External link Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The book is told in stream of consciousness style by 15 different narrators in 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren, the wife of a poor Mississippi hill farmer, and her family's quest -- noble or selfish -- to honor her wish to be buried with "her people" in the town of Jefferson. On the journey, Addie's favorite child, Jewel, saves his mother's body from flood and fire, and the thoughts of each of the Bundrens are revealed. Most interesting is Darl, the second oldest, who exhibits moments of prescience and attempts to put an end to the family's trip. As is the case in much of Faulkner's work, the story is set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which Faulkner referred to as "my apocryphal county," a mythical rendering of the writer's home of Lafayette County in that same state. Faulkner is noted to be one of the pioneers of stream of consciousness, like James Joyce before him. This technique, which he began in The Sound and the Fury, continues in As I Lay Dying, giving the book its characteristic monologues from the tragically flawed Bundrens and the passers-by they encounter. The story helped kickstart the Southern Renaissance and spends a great deal of time devoted to the notion of being and existence, flirting with metaphysics as it progresses. The novel, in regards to Addie Bundren's lone chapter, also helped bring issues of feminism in literature to the foreground of a nation lost within itself, solidifying the traditional belief that a woman's voice can only be heard once she has died. The novel has a now famous chapter that contains only one sentence; it reads: "My mother is a fish." Christ Figures in As I Lay Dying Fathered by the church, or to put it more precisely, fathered by the reverend. As a metaphor for the cross Jesus died on, Jewel is often described using wood imagery. Addie says "he is my lord and savior," the he being Jewel, when Cora is talking to her about coming to Jesus. Thus, Jewel is meant to be the God. Though it would seem that Jewel would be the Christ figure, he is most probably the opposite. During Addie’s chapter, she says that Jewel is, "Dressed in sin,” which only furthers the argument.- The true hero lives in the tension between thinking and acting…So Darl is the Hero, the Christ-like figure. He thinks and acts. He is kind to children and not callous towards his mother. Darl knows everyone's secrets; they come to him to confess. Darl also takes care of people's needs. It is Darl that knows to collect Cash's tools which restore his health. Throughout the book, it is shown that Jesus Christ shares the most similarities with Cash. Both Jesus and Cash were both carpenters. Cash is the sole person in the novel who sustains any physical damage, and in the process, it is shown that Cash is a selfless person, who thinks only of the welfare of others. This point is emphasized and made to be absurdly obvious to the reader. Christ acted in he same way throughout his time on earth, especially seen with his death on the cross. Even the name has similarities, Cash and Christ. William Faulkner Novels Soldiers Pay | Mosquitoes | Sartoris | The Sound and the Fury | As I Lay Dying | Sanctuary | Light in August | Pylon | Absalom, Absalom! | The Unvanquished | If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) | Go Down, Moses | Intruder in the Dust | Requiem for a Nun | A Fable | The Reivers | Flags in the Dust Snopes Series: The Hamlet | The Town | The Mansion See also Southern Gothic Southern literature "The Grotesque" External link On publishing the novel This article about a novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Preceded by: The Sound and the Fury Novels set in Yoknapatawpha County Succeeded by: Sanctuary Search Term: "As_I_Lay_Dying" Categories: Cleanup from October 2006 | All pages needing cleanup | 1930 novels | American novels | Modern Library 100 best novels | William Faulkner novels | Novel stubs

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