Although in Light in August the McEachern farm seems very isolated, there is "a neighbor" somewhere nearby from whom Joe earns two dollars chopping wood (197).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-25 15:07
New Orleans (where Faulkner lived at the beginning of his own artistic career) appears in many of his fictions. It was originally settled by the Spanish, then ceded to France. Though the story's dates are unspecified, Ikkemotubbe lives there for seven years around the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), at which time the town contained about 8500 people, more than half of whom were non-white, and most of whom spoke languages other than English.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-25 09:55
Twelve mile path from the sand bar in the Tallahatchie River to Doom's plantation over which the steamboat is pulled on logs and placed beside Doom's house.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-25 09:50
This location represents the route over which the Indians and their slaves pull part of the wrecked steamboat twelve miles through the woods to their plantation in "A Justice."
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-25 09:37
This sand bar on the Tallahatchie River twelve miles from Doom's plantation is where the steamboat ran aground some time before "A Justice." In the story the ship is moved overland to the plantation.
Four miles away from the McEachern farm is the schoolhouse in the country where Joe and Bobbie attend a dance. The school is "a oneroom building," surrounded by a "grove" of trees (203).
The place where the adolescent Joe has his first, violent encounter with sexuality and race is described as a "deserted sawmill shed" - a phrasing that leaves us in doubt about whether the mill or just the shed is "deserted" (156). It is enough "miles" from the McEachern place that Joe worries about how late he will "reach home" (155).
