A poor rural family hauls their mother's body across flood-ravaged Mississippi to fulfill her burial wish, exposing selfishness, grief, and hardship.
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A poor rural family hauls their mother's body across flood-ravaged Mississippi to fulfill her burial wish, exposing selfishness, grief, and hardship.
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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.The title derives from Book XI of Homer's Odyssey (William Marris's 1925 translation), wherein Agamemnon tells Odysseus: "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." The novel utilizes stream of consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying cha...
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Sexual content
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References to pregnancy, abortion, and sexual relations; some explicit content.
Violence & gore
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Death, injury, animal death, and physical hardship during the journey.
Profanity
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Obscenity and repeated use of God's name in vain.
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Biblical overtones, themes of sin, faith, and religion recur throughout.
Magic & witchcraft
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No evidence found in available sources
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Depicts racism, racial slurs, and rural Southern social conditions.
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Family dysfunction, domestic abuse, grief, rape references, and systemic hardship.
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