As I Lay Dying Free Write - 4.4.16

William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying, was honestly kind of weird to me as a reader. I am not entirely sure of the purpose to this writing or who/what the intended audience is. The dialect and dialogue throughout the first part that we read could be confusing at times, but it could also be very easy to read. Sometimes while reading I'd have to go back and make sure I actually read something correctly because the sentence structure was really weird. I am also very confused on why Addie Bundren died at the beginning instead of the end, because usually an author will kill off a character towards the end or at the climax of a novel. So, maybe Faulkner is setting her death at the beginning in order to build something off of it, but I am not even sure what he would want to make off of the death. The narration throughout the novel was kind of nice, but also kind of weird because at times I would actually forget who was saying what and I'd have to turn back a few pages and see who was talking about the death, or what was going on. Since we didn't get last names and whatnot towards the beginning of the book for every character, I was confused on who was in what family. That being the Tulls or the Bundrens or even possibly another family that I don't even know about. The novel itself was weird to me, and it could be because I don't know what it is about in the first place, other than to show her death and possibly some outcomes that come from her death and the things leading up to it.