As I Lay Dying - Setting Flashcards
1
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setting
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- 1920’s South in hot July
- an impoverished rural county called Yoknapatawpha in the town of Jefferson
- have to cross a river to get to Jefferson. the bridge is out, so the journey is even longer than normal
- part of the southern culture
- does not allow people to speak ill to or about others
- does not allow people to tell other people what to do
2
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note
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- the journey itself
- being set in the south
- people were polite
- because of the 1920s southern customs
