With All Eyes on You: Distantiation Through Multiple Perspectives in As I Lay Dying

In the novel As I Lay Dying William Faulkner portrays the Bundrens, a Southern family that has decided to travel to Jefferson, Mississippi in order to bury their matriarch. The novel gives an account of the modern American family on the verge of collapse and is told from the eyes of fifteen different narrators, seven are the Bundrens while the other eight are made up of citizens from either the rural land or city. Although novel centers on the Bundrens, the majority of the chapters are allotted to non-Bundren narrators. One of the main purposes of emphasizing non-family narrators is to create what this paper refers to as distantiation- a distancing effect, which illuminates how different forms of space, whether they are geographical, social, or personal, play into lives of individuals. Through an examination of the characters in the novel, this paper considers how, through the different forms of distantiation used by both Faulkner, and the characters he creates, it becomes possible to see how the Bundrens self-destruc

Aboard Ship on Way to States by Carr Hooper

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, confusion and panic rippled not only through the United States, but across the world as well. The U.S. Army bases and airfields around Manila in the Philippines readied for the imminent attack from the Japanese. U.S. troops fought against the Japanese in the Philippines, but in late December of 1941, Manila was declared an open city. The document “Aboard Ship on Way to States” was written by American citizen Carr Hooper, who, accompanied with his wife Ruth, became a prisoner at Japanese internment camp Santo Tomas in the Philippines from 1942 to 1945. Throughout the pages of “Aboard Ship on Way to States,” Hooper very accurately recalls specific dates, names, and events from the war. The document was typed on a typewriter and there are several handwritten additions, corrected spellings, and omissions. Due to the age of the document, the pages are yellowed