1. A Persecuted Name: Faulkner's Jesus And Jesus Of Nazareth
Faulkner begins discussing the setting, the city of Jefferson, as a place where the electric and telephone companies are taking over and cutting down the trees to make way for "iron poles bearing clusters of bloated and ghostly and bloodless grapes- (76). ... Keeping in mind that technology is needed for a thriving modern society, blacks were needed to smoothly run a household as well as carry out the grunt work that the white men and women were not willing to succumb to in most cases. ... Of course the time at which Faulkner wrote That Evening Sun, the Civil Rights Movement had not truly be...
- Word Count: 1470
- Approx Pages: 6
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School