Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 21:56
This location represents both Hawkhurst, a large cotton plantation, the road that passes in front of it, and the railroad that once ran behind it. Located in Alabama, but not far from the Mississippi border, the plantation belongs to the Hawk family. Mr. Hawk has died in the Civil War; at Hawkhurst now are Mrs. Millard's sister, Louise, and Louise's children Drusilla and Denny.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 21:38
This site on the Mississippi-Alabama border represents the spot where Rosa Millard, Bayard and Ringo camp at the end of the third day on their trip to Hawkhurst: that night they are kept awake by groups of passing ex-slaves; the next morning, Rosa discovers a black woman and her infant child who were left behind by one of these groups.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 21:33
During their second day on the dusty road, still heading "straight on into the east," Rosa Millard, Bayard and Ringo travel for a long while through "hills" where "nobody seemed to live at all" (39), then through a landscape of "burned houses and gins and thrown down fences" - signs, as Rosa says, that "the Yankees have already been here" (40). This icon represents the spot where they camp for the night, either in eastern Mississippi or western Alabama.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 20:14
Rosa Millard, Bayard and Ringo head directly into the rising sun on their way to Alabama. This icon represents the site where, after driving "until dark," they camp for the first night on the road (39).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 20:11
This site near and beyond the Mississippi-Alabama border represents our speculation about where Rosa and the boys spend the third night of their journey "along that big broad empty road between the burned houses and gins and fences" that is taking them to Hawkhurst (40, 83). Bayard tells us that "Before it had been like passing through a country where nobody had ever lived; now it was like passing through one where everybody had died at the same moment" (84).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 20:10
During their second day of their trip in "Raid" and The Unvanquished, Rosa Millard, Bayard and Ringo travel for a long while through hills and "a country" where "nobody seemed to live at all" (39, 81). "But after a while the hills stopped, the road ran out flat and straight" until "the road we were on ran square into a big broad one running straight on into the east" (39, 82). On this road, they travel by "a burned house like ours; three chimneys standing above a mound of ashes" with a white woman and child "looking at us from a cabin behind them" (40, 82).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 20:09
Rosa Millard, Bayard and Ringo head directly into the rising sun on their way to Alabama in "Raid" and The Unvanquished. Presumably they are using the road that heads due east from Jefferson on Faulkner's maps - one of the less traveled roads in the fictions. On our maps the location represents our guess about where, after driving "until dark," they camp for the first night on the road (39, 80).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 16:05
Joby's cabin (once referred to as Louvinia's cabin) is a former one room slave cabin. The main house of the Sartoris plantation had been destroyed, so during the story Rosa Millard and Bayard have moved in to the cabin. The interior is now divided by a "red quilt nailed by one edge to a rafter and hanging down to make two rooms" (36-37), thus reinforcing an illusory segregation within the cabin.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 15:12
There is no description in "Raid" of the Compson place. It plays a peripheral role as the location where Bayard and Ringo go to borrow a hat, a parasol and a hand mirror from Mrs. Compson for Rosa Millard.
