Aim. A writer’s aim is his or her purpose or goal. As you read, decide what Faulkner’s aim was in writing his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
Alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. As you read Faulkner’s speech, look for examples of alliteration.
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Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950 for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. The brief address that he delivered on accepting the prize presents a noble view of the role to be played by imaginative literature in the modern age.
Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying is an excellent example of his distinctive narrative structures—the use of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters. Faulkner tells the darkly comic tale of the death of Addie Bundren, the matriarch of the Bundren family, through the eyes of each family member, including Addie herself.
In general, what do you gain when you read literature?
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