Objective: Students consider As I Lay Dying as a literary experiment in modernist techniques. By analyzing Faulkner’s novel in the context of modernist movements like cubism and surrealism in the plastic arts (paintin...
Objective: In this activity, students analyze the themes of family conflict, poverty, and insanity in As I Lay Dying through a role-playing exercise. In small groups of two or three, students create original skits in wh...