Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by William Faulkner in which As I Lay Dying is set; this is now the third novel set here. As I Lay Dying was one of the last novels written in the 1920s by William Faulkner and in fifty-nine chapters, this novel presents a unique narrative by fifteen different first-person narrators. Each chapter is written from that particular character's point of view telling their version of what is happening in the novel, making it not only an interesting approach to storytelling but also a compelling read. Faulkner uses the character's use of language to help us identify and see glimpses into the lives of the Bundren family; through this we can understand the revenge and secrets within the characters that are blind to most, if not all, of the remaining characters in the novel. The word secret can be interpreted in two ways, as an adjective "not known or seen or not intended to be known or seen by others" or a noun "something that is kept or intended to be kept unknown or invisible to others"; both with generally the same average...
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