Light in August's genre.
What is a Southern Gothic Novel?
The blue patch.
What is the patch Hightower's grandfather took from the Northern soldiers?
The 3 phantoms.
Who were the father, mother, and the old n--ro woman? (474)
"... Spartan sobriety beyond his years" (472)
Who is Hightower (son)?
Charlie Brown is the star of this show.
What are Peanuts?
Light in August's original title.
What is Dark House?
The political party Hightower (father) aligned himself with.
What is the Republican party?
The two people hitchhiking with a baby toward Tennesee.
Who are Lena and Byron Bunch?
"... that man who was a stranger to both, a foreigner, almost a threat" (475)
Who is Hightower's father?
In New York I "am a mother who dies during complications giving birth to a biracial baby" rock.
Who is Milly?
The town that Jefferson was based on and where William Faulkner grew up.
Where is Oxford, Missouri?
The Yankees.
What is the colloquial slang for Nothern soldiers during the Civil War?
The reason why the Hightower's slave refused to leave their house after the war.
What is the woman refusing to believe the death of Hightower (father) and her husband?
"...with a face both irascible and calm: the mask of a black tragedy between the scenes" (476)
Who is the slave who stays behind at the Hightower's house after the war?
The year Christmas became a holiday. (i think.......)
When was 4-6 BCE?
The county in which Light in August takes place.
a) Yoknapatawpha
b) Yakatulapa
c) Yenkowatada
d) Yunkavatasha
What is (a) Yoknapatawpha?
The symbolism of "... two separate and complete people, one of who dwelled by serene rules in a world where reality did not exist. But the other part... which lived in the actual world".
What is Hightower's dilemma during the Civil War? (His belief in abolition and living in the South)
The reason why Hightower had the urge to leave for Jefferson.
What is Hightower's enrollment in the Jefferson seminary?
"... as though about to embrace all seeing, all life, with one terrible glare of frustration and knowledge, and that when that he would hear it: it would be a sound, like a cry." (475)
Who is Hightower's mother?
(1) William Faulkner's real name.
(2) An award which William Faulkner won.
(1) Who is William Cuthbert Falkner?
(2) What is the Nobel Prize for Literature?
The meaning of Light in August.
The reasoning to how "false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life". (circumstances)
What caused Hightower to believe that there was more to life outside of Christianity when asked to leave the county with his wife?
The person who's "life had ceased before it began".
Who is Hightower (son)?
"But he did not see her face at all. He did not see [a face] ... passionate with discontent... He did not see that for three years her eyes had watched him with almost desperate calculation, like those of a harassed gambler." (480)
Who is Hightower (son)'s wife?
What is...
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