The Sound and the Fury

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/the-sound-and-the-fury

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote The Sound and the Fury?William Faulkner
2. What is the publication date?October 7, 1929
3. What is the setting?Jefferson, Mississippi (fictional Yoknapatawpha County)
4. What is The Sound and the Fury about?It is a story about the Compson family in the South and how their lives fall apart over time. The book shows how memory, history, and family secrets can hurt people.
5. Why does the story jump around in time?The author uses a special way of telling the story that skips forward and backward. This helps readers see how the characters remember and feel things, even if the events are out of order.

Modernism: An early 20th-century artistic and literary movement characterized by experimentation, a break from tradition, and a focus on subjective experience.
Stream of Consciousness: A narrative mode that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind of a narrator.
Southern Gothic: A subgenre of American literature that uses the American South as its setting and explores themes of decay, the grotesque, and the supernatural.