Challenges & Opportunities of Teaching As I Lay Dying

Let’s just face it: As I Lay Dying is a difficult book. It poses challenges for readers to simply understand the plot. It uses dense, oblique and often impressionistic prose. It offers a bleak assessment of one family’s efforts, and implies that the insults of life don’t stop with death. And it deals with teenage pregnancy and abortion – difficult issues to confront in a classroom.

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