Man’s Interaction with the Environment in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses :: Faulkner’s Go Down Moses

Mans Interaction with the Environment in Faulkners Go Down, MosesI found the short stories in Go Down, Moses to be long, boring, and hard to comprehend. As usual Faulkner writes his stories with no regard to punctuation. His bridge over sentences are confusing and unnecessary. However, I did notice the theme of man and his interactions with the environs stressed throughout these stories. Was starts us off with Uncle Ike McCaslin in his old long time and tells the story of his elder cousin (and surrogate father) and his childhood with Uncle Buck and Uncle Buddy. I was not surprised to see the uncles reappear, as Faulkner loves to have characters make come-backs in numerous novels. Like its title, Was shows a past experience from McCaslin Edmonds childhood. The sentence grammatical construction in the beginning of the story conf utilise me a bit. Faulkner engages no periods, choosing quite to start a new paragraph every time unrivaled sentence ends and the other begins (granted, these sentences are basically paragraphs themselves). Once the story rough Edmonds past and the dialog start, Faulkner starts using periods again. Why would Faulkner set the story up like this? What is the significance of leaving out periods in the beginning of the news report? Perhaps it is to signal that the narrator is speaking in present time, and one time the periods are included, that signals that the yett occurred in the past. This is a probable explanation, as we power saw a similar structure in his other novels, including The Sound and the Fury, where italics were used to signal a change in narrative. Maybe the same thing is happening here.In Pantaloon in Black Faulkner seems to digress from the story of the McCaslins and focuses on a black man, Rider, who goes crazy with grief after his wifes mysterious (to the reader) death, kills a white man he flora with, and is executed. This story clearly illustrates the racial discrimination by whites. After the inviolate o rdeal, the sheriffs deputy tells his wife about the events and in the process allows us to see how racist he is. He compares blacks to a damn covey of wild buffaloes when it comes to having feelings (150). Also, when he describes Riders actions after his wifes death, he says that the town expected him to take the day off since even a nigger couldnt want no better explain for a holiday cruelly suggesting that blacks are lazy and will use any excuse to have a day off of acidify (151).