Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Mon, 2015-09-21 17:08
This is the cabin "by the creek" (349) on Doom's plantation where Sometimes-Wakeup lives alone in "A Justice." The text implies the cabin is physically separated from other dwellings: "Sometimes the People took him food. The rest of the time they didn't see him" (349).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-18 15:18
In the vocabulary of Yoknapatawpha, a river or creek "bottom" is the low-lying, swampy, overgrown area on one or both sides of the water. In this story it is dense enough to provide hiding places "in hollow logs" for "the People" as a group (350). It also provides the "saplings" from which to build a fence around a slave cabin (359).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-18 15:00
Usually "hot springs" are a natural pools that draw from geothermal energy to heat their water to a temperature higher than that of the human body. In many cultures around the world they are used therapeutically. The hot spring on Doom's plantation is where Sam Fathers' "pappy" Craw-ford (or Crawfish-ford) soaks his feet for three days after he "hurt his back lifting the steamboat" (352). When Doom suggests "the husband of the woman which I won on the steamboat" (353) should sit with him, his back is suddenly better.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-18 14:50
Usually "hot springs" are natural pools of water heated by geothermal energy to a temperature higher than that of the human body. In many cultures around the world they are used therapeutically. The hot spring on Doom's plantation in "A Justice" is where Sam Fathers' "pappy" Craw-ford (or Crawfish-ford) soaks his feet for three days after he "hurt his back lifting the steamboat" (352). When Doom suggests "the husband of the woman which I won on the steamboat" (353) should sit with him, his back is suddenly better.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Thu, 2015-09-17 17:13
"The Plantation" - as the Indians call the land they live on in this story - borders the river the on Faulkner's maps forms the northern border of Yoknapatawpha (345).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Thu, 2015-09-17 16:26
In " Justice" Caddy and Jason are sent "to the creek" on the Compson family farm "to fish" (343) while Quentin goes to the plantation blacksmith shop to hear Sam Fathers explain why he has two names.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-04 15:30
Sam Fathers' workshop and forge at the Compson family farm. Sam makes and repairs items for the farm here, including "breast-yokes [and] wagon wheels" (344). Quentin listens to Sam's stories here as well.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2015-09-04 15:17
Like the cabin that Sam Fathers lives in before he moves out to the big woods, the blacksmith shop where he works is one of the locations that Faulkner moves around to suit his changing imaginative project. In "A Justice," it's on the Compson farm. In it Sam makes and repairs items for the farm, including "breast-yokes" and "wagon wheels" (344). It is also here that he tells Quentin the story of how he got to have two names. (In two later texts Faulkner moves this blacksmith shop to two other plantations; those Locations have other entries in the index.)
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Mon, 2015-08-31 17:08
This icon represents the collection of cabins behind "the barns and smokehouses" (343) on the Compson farm. The narrator calls it "the quarters," a term that recalls the layout of a slave plantation (343). Sam Fathers lives there with the Negroes who labor on the farm. (In "The Old People" and in Go Down, Moses the "quarters" where Sam lives is part of two different plantations.)
