American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1420 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Sound and the Fury*
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The idea
The novel tells the fall of the Compson family in four sections with four different narrations, the first by a man with severe intellectual disability who has no sense of chronology. Readers meet the events out of order and assemble the story as they go.
In practice
Four sections, four kinds of narration.
Where people slip
The first section withholds the ordering entirely.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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