The Sound and the Fury, 238 (Event)

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Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Fri, 2014-06-27 19:12
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Location: 
The Forks in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Page Number: 
238
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
until I came to the first forks and had to
Page Event Ends: 
239
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
Jason Compson
Unnamed Negro at the Forks
Characters Mentioned: 
(Miss) Quentin
Unnamed Compson Slaves
Unnamed Drummers
Unnamed Man with Red Tie
Unnamed People of Yoknapatawpha
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, April 6, 1928
Notes: 

red
blood
forks
slaves
farm
country

Summary: 

Jason stops where the road goes in two directions, and asks a man walking to town which way the Ford went. While waiting for the man to reach him, Jason thinks about his family's great past and its current predicament.

Chronological Order: 
17.47
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Family_Honor Sexuality Farming Headache Slavery Race
Environment:
Place›Road
Actions:
Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues:
Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Progress›Roads | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs:
Memory›Remembering | Values›Family honor
Relationships:
Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry | Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration

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