Personal Narrative: The Bundrens

There is no going back from this moment on. She is no longer just her mother’s child-- she is a mom. Her baby’s mom. It is as if her whole world changed in a blink of an eye, but despite the rapid change, she embraces it. She loves her child to an extent only a mother can imagine possible.

In order to be buried there, her entire family must make a journey to get her body there. Over the course of the excursion, Faulkner highlights the Bundren’s complicated family structure through his unique

Meet the Armstrongs, Alan,35,is the father,Mercedes,34,Mother,Zach,14,Boy,Nathile,10,Girl. My family lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. My dad is a middle school graph teacher for 8th graders. Family makes 5000 for Gross Monthly, and makes 60,000 for Gross Annual.

Not only that but it is prevalent that Addie (the mother) does not love her family. At one point she explains , “And so I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it” (Faulkner 171). When she makes this statement it is obvious her relationship with Anse was nothing more than having someone to raise the baby

He went through EXACTLY what we go through. And He called on the Father to help Him through it! We also know the enemy will attack us when we’re weakest. Hunger.

He who bears my burden bares for all, He who seizes weakened flames lest we stumble, lest we fall. My Lord, my redeemer, who loveth you more than I, the lowly sinner? My heart aches and yearns for the Shepherd's lost sheep, who cower in his presence, who curse it and weep.

On the night of October 31st, the Potter family received an outrageous phone call. Informed by the police, one of the Potter’s daughters were dead, after a drug overdose at a high school party. As the Potter family, listened to the heartbreaking news on speaker an incredulous expression appeared on everyone’s faces. The girl’s mother realized over the past few weeks how her daughter was very capricious, but was unbothered by her daughter's actions, assuming it to be “woman body issues”. However, the mother was incorrect and the police investigated their house, finding many drugs obscured under a shaky floor board in the daughter's room and her closet.

Personal Reactions: I liked how the family wanted to complete Addie Bundren’s dying wish to be buried in Jefferson so matter how bad the circumstances got. “[Anse Bundren, her husband] promised [Addie]. She wanted it. She from there.

I picked this passage over the other passage in the story because, since Addie had one part in, As I Lay Dying, the words had more meaning behind it than everyone else’s passage in the story. Also, I had made this writing choice over another because I felt Addie expressed her true feelings about Anse, why she married him in the first place, and how becoming a mother was such a terrible thing to occurred. Although some mothers are filled with happiness in joy of becoming one, but sadly, not some mothers are not. This is unfortunate for child/children and it affects them badly because a mother’s love is what child/children desires. By Addie not being pleased becoming a mother, her ‘love’ reflect its on her relationships with her children, expect when it came to Jewels.

Long ago in a land once known as the United States of America, in a time where everyone had freedoms that no longer exist today, religious freedom had no price. Back then, everyone was free to practice whatever religion they pleased. That all changed the day the continents collided; an event that was much later given the name the Collision. For a time, there was peace but even a tentative peace can’t last forever. Only days after the Collision, the Vatican City sent its troops out across the newly formed continent.

1st Dan In The Federation When I was fourteen years old I became a 1st Dan in the World Traditional Tang Soo Do Federation. I had been training for this day since I was four years old and after ten years of hard work I finally received my Black Belt. It was one of the proudest days of my life since my dad was my instructor. He had been training me for all of these years and martial arts was a huge part of my life.

Waking up, I look around from my seated position and see nothing but empty darkness. Darkness so black that it feels like an empty void in space. Or so I thought. I look down at my hands, and to my surprise, I can see them. But upon seeing them, fear begins to crawl through my body.

She admits to having an extramarital affair with the local preacher, who is Jewel’s biological father. Further, Addie admits that she wants to be buried in Jefferson because she wants to spend eternity as far away from the Bundrens as possible. Throughout the expedition, Darl—the son whom most people refer to as “queer” because of his alleged telepathic ability—is the only Bundren who questions the family’s motives. After eight days, Darl tires of the spectacle of dragging his mother’s corpse through the county and sets fire to Gillespie’s barn in an attempt to burn the coffin and Addie’s putrefied body. Out of respect for his mother and a belief that she should have been buried earlier, Darl tries to burn the coffin in one of the most selfless acts in the novel.

To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.” Earlier in my life as a believer when going through an extremely difficult time, I read this verse as encouragement that the suffering I was enduring would only be for a ‘little while’. The Lord was so gracious to help me grow in my simple faith, not fully understanding yet the depth of this

Trapped I marked yet another straight line on my tally. I drew the fifth line. It was our fifth day here. Our rations and supplies were slowly running short despite conserving as much food as possible. It has been 5 full days since I last embraced sunlight.