New Hope Church (Location Key)
Less than "three miles away" from the Bundrens' house is the New Hope Church where the family usually buries its dead (As I Lay Dying, 28-29). In this novel, however, the Bundrens never get closer to "New Hope" than three miles, though their journey twice takes them past the "white signboard with faded lettering" that points there (108). Probably this is also the church that Cash fell off of the first time he broke his leg (15).
According to Tull, "folks" in the Bundren family "buries at New Hope," a church "not three miles away" from their house (As I Lay Dying, 29-30). When Addie dies, the neighbors all assume the New Hope churchyard is where the Bundrens plan to bury her too, especially after the storm washes away the bridges between their house and the cemetery in Jefferson where Addie's own family is buried. In the novel, however, the Bundrens never get closer to "New Hope" than the road they pass twice in their journey, where they see the "white signboard with faded lettering" that points there (108).
Occupants: Unspecified members of Bundren family.
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