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HONOR ENGLISH TEST SHORT STORIES
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11th Grade
01/10/2010

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William Faulkner
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Barn Burning
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Willa Cather
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Pauls Case
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Richard Wright
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Almos a Man
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Sherwood Anderson
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I am a fool
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Ernest J Gaines
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The Sky is Gray
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Katherine Anna Porter
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Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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Ring Lardner
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The Golden Honey Moon
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Ernest Hemingway
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Soldier's Home
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Bernice Bobs Her hair
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Books of Richard Wright
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Almos a Man, Native Son, Black Boy
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Books of William Faulkner
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Barn Burning, The sound of Fury, As I lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom- Absalom, The Hamlet
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Willa Cather books
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My Antonia, O pioneers
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(1909-1960) Black american novelist best known in this country and abroad.
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Richard Wright
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influenced the writing of Ralph ellison, and james baldwin
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Richard Wright
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born in natchaz mississippi, the son of a share cropper, entirely self educated.
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Richard Wright
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read widely on his own, but strongly influenced by writers who stressed the importance of a person's environment
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Richard Wright
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Had a series of menial jobs throughout the Depression
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Richard Wright
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central themes involve the tension of being black in a white society.
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Richard Wright
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Attempted passage into manhood
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ALMOS A MAN
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Native son
Black boy
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Richard Wright
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Born in Niles Michigan, on march 6, 1885
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Ring Lardner
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graduated from highschool then worked a series of odd jobs till 1906
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Ring Lardner
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graduated from highschool then worked a series of odd jobs till 1906
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Ring Lardner
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began writing for the South Bend Times in Indiana
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Ring Lardner
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sportswriter
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Ring Lardner
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superb era for colloquial speech
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Ring Lardner
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personal brand of irony
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Ring Lardner
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well known for his sports writing
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Ring Lardner
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keen eye for vivid detail
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Ring Lardner
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first developed as a journalist
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Ring Lardner
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blends biting satire of our foibles with a humorous and compassionate understanding of them
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Ring Lardner
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stories explore human relationships, values in a colloquially rich, iidiomatic American English, their ever-present comic note ranging from feather-duster light to dark laughter
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Ring Lardner
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1890 Born in Texas
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Katerine Anna Porter
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Educated at home and in small Southern convent schools
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Katerine Anna Porter
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became a reporter in 1921
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Katerine Anna Porter
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admirer of henry james
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Katerine Anna Porter
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robert penn watten cited many of her stores and being unsurpassed in modern fiction
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Katerine Anna Porter
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major characters are often women whose ideailstic values are challenged by life's brutality
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Katerine Anna Porter
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welcomes the external demands of life as a way of helping her forget her broken dreams
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Katerine Anna Porter
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Ships of fools
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Katerine Anna Porter
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The Collected Stories of Katerine Anna Porter
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Katerine Anna Porter
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work compensate for grief and loss
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The Jilting of Granny Weather All
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Key to adulthood (possession or achievement?)
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Almos a Man
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Taking and accepting the consequences of one's actions
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Almos a Man
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conflict with family and community
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Almos a Man
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facing or running away from problems
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Almos a Man
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comming to terms with one's past
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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imagination and reality
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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stream-of consciousness
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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Old Age and Death
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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Born in 1933 on a plantation in rural louisiana

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Ernest J. Gaines

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eldest of 12 children
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Ernest J. Gaines

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15 when he moved to California and read voraciously there and started writing
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Ernest J. Gaines

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His fiction are set in rural Louisiana, and much is based on
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Ernest J. Gaines

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one of only a few black writers portraying life in the rural South from a black point of view
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Ernest J. Gaines

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Autbiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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Ernest J. Gaines

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Bloodline
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Ernest J. Gaines

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First Encounter with the world
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The Sky is Gray
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Reactions to race and poverty-prejudice
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The Sky is Gray
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pride,self-respect, survival
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The Sky is Gray
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belief in God
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The Sky is Gray
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family relationships
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The Sky is Gray
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(1876-1941) grew up in Clyde Ohio
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Sherwood Anderson
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left home at the age of fourteen
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Sherwood Anderson
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returned to his native state and established a successful career in advertising and manufacturing.
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Sherwood Anderson
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left both his family and his job in 1912 at the age of 36 to embark on a literary career in Chicago
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Sherwood Anderson
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became one of the best-known chronicalers of American small-town life
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Sherwood Anderson
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short stories do not depend on click plost contrived ending, but exemplify and kind of literature he felt was truer
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Sherwood Anderson
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tried to write about ordinary people the way they really are behind the repectable / glib facade they present in public
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Sherwood Anderson
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wrote about people who were confused and looking for answers
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Sherwood Anderson
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try to get some of the basic problems that defeat and frustrate people
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Sherwood Anderson
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had kind of humor that makes us smile at people rather than laugh at them
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Sherwood Anderson
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cycle of stories Wines Burg Ohio (1919)
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Sherwood Anderson
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adolescent strugging to find his adult identity
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I am a fool
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painful process of learning about one's self
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I am a fool
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actions motivated by feelings and aspirations
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I am a fool
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first romantic experience as test of social acceptability
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I am a fool
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Born in Viriginia in 1873
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Willa Cather
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said one's strongest emoetions and one's most vivid mental pictures are acquired before one is fifteen
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Willa Cather
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moved to nebraska when she was 9 spent her years on the prairies of nebraska
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Willa Cather
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home schooled spent free time outdoors
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Willa Cather
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when to school at University of Nebraska. Then moved to pittsburgh
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Willa Cather
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In pittsburgh she was a drama critic and high school english teacher
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Willa Cather
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eventually moved to New York City where she was the editor in chief of McClure's Magazine
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Willa Cather
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Roots remained in Nebraska of this she had to write
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Willa Cather
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Influenced strongly by her familys pioneer farming existence
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Willa Cather
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wrote simply and truthfully
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Willa Cather
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contrast between the hard, isolated pioneer life and the world of art, whiche answers yearnings of a more romantic vision of life, informed much of her work
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Willa Cather
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My antonia
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Willa Cather
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o pioneers
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Willa Cather
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Dealing with conflicts in school and at home
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Pauls Case
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conformity versus individuality
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Pauls Case
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dreams versus reality
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Pauls CAse
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suicide
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Pauls Case
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(1897-1962) Born in Albany , Mississippi
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William Faulkner
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voracious reader as a student
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William Faulkner
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served with canadian air foce in WWI
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William Faulkner
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stories for an extended sage tracing the adventures of variety of charactores from the fictional Yoknaptawpha county in mississippi
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William Faulkner
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wrote about south baught between its past and the present
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William Faulkner
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characters fall into 3 catagories: Those who merely accept lifes tragedies
Those who cannot accept them, but lack moral strength to fight back
Those who struggle bravely but vainly overcome them
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William Faulkner
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Published 19 novels, several dozen short stories, two volumes of poems, a play and some occasional non-fiction
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William Faulkner
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awarded Nobel prize in 1950
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William Faulkner
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said "only thing worth writing about was the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself"
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William Faulkner
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Eudora Welty a fellow mississippian wrote about him "no man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word"
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William Faulkner
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the sound of fury
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William Faulkner
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as i lay dying
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William Faulkner
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sanctuary
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William Faulkner
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light in august
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William Faulkner
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absalom, absalom!
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William Faulkner
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absalom, absalom!
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William Faulkner
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THE HAMLET
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William Faulkner
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comming of age
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barn burning
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family loyalty
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barn burning
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conflict with values
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barn burning
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father and son relationship
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barn burning
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Born in Oak Park Illinois
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Ernest Hemmingway
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started career as writer in the newspaper office in Kansas City
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Ernest Hemmingway
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volunteered as ambulance unit in the Italian Army. Wound in the front
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Ernest Hemmingway
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The Sun Also Rises
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Ernest Hemmingway
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A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemmingway
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For Whome the Bell Tolls
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Ernest Hemmingway
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The Oldman & the Sea
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Ernest Hemmingway
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Born in St. Paul Minnesota Sept 24, 1896
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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catholic schooled
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Beautiful and the Damned
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Tender is the Night
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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