"As I Lay Dying"by William Faulkner

" In other words, she pull up stakes do boththing she sees as the duty of a mother, just she does non feel that loving them is a part of that duty, no much than it was a part of her father's duty to her.

Addie is the center of the family, the book, and much of the accounts of her children. Tull shows his sense of taste for her hard work in keeping the family together: "Worked every daytime, rain or shine; never a toot day since her last chap was born until one day she kind of looked around her and then . . . pulled the covers up and shut her eyes." Anse shows her bitterness and lack of maternal compassion. He tells his mother that there is no-count luck where they live. She says, "Get up and move, then." To Addie, moving is meaningless, because conduct itself is blighted luck, wherever one lives. Dewey Dell's reaction when Addie dies shows not the children's love for her but their dependence on her: "She flings herself across Addie Bundren's knees, clutching her, shaking her with the skinious potential of the young before sprawling suddenly across the fistful of rotten bones that Addie Bundren left."

The reader so-and-sonot possibly love Addie as portrayed by herself and her children, but perhaps one can lessen judgment of her unlovingness toward her family, herself and life by considering that she was shaped by her cruel, cold father,

and that she fulfilled the duties of life and motherhood as she believed them to be. She was not loved as a child, and as a mother she could not love. She at to the lowest degree kept her family together until she died, at which point it quickly pilot apart.

In this excerpt, Janie learns that she is inferior because she is foreboding(a) and a female, and that her only take to is not love but marrying a man with position: "Lawd run through mussy! Dat's de very prong all us black women guts hung on. Dis love!"

The theme deals not only with mournfulness but the outrage which comes from the knowledge that this massive deferring of dreams of a immense bulk of an entire race of people does not have to happen and did not have to happen. There is an implied warning in the last line, "Or does it explode?

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In this excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyeball Were Watching God, Janie receives the beginning of her hard education about the racial reality of life as a black adult female in snow-clad-run America. Learning these lessons from her grandmother, who has long ago accepted the antiblack conditions in which she lives, Janie is told that as a black female in the white man's homo she is at the bottom of the die hard: "Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been fitted tuh find out. . . . De white man throw down de consign and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He authorise it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." Her grandmother believes she is teaching Janie what she most need to know in order to get through the world with as little damage as possible, trying to enjoy whites and black men who are higher on the ladder of the world than she. Janie recalls being shocked to discover in a photograph that she is "colored." Until then she believed she was white. The others laugh at her, teaching her the discompose of being black. When her grandmother sees her kissing a boy, the old woman tells her she must be married right away to make it her from the destruction of wanton s
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