Statement:
"...and suddenly he realised that he had been completely wrong; it was not Saturday that had never happened but only last night which to them had not happened yet,..."
Summary:
The chapter starts off with them driving Miss Habersham home and then they all go to Chick house to let him get some sleep and go to school the next day, but they want to help. His uncle sayd he'll talk to their mothers to see if they can help. Faulkner then tels you how Chick's mother is the easy-going one, and it is his father that doesn't like him doing anything. Such is the case in this story. Chick's mother allows him to go, but his father doesn't want him to. In the end, Chick is going to go, so he drinks some coffee, which his father dislikes, and they tell the story of how when they went to the grave the first time that the flowers were messily arranged and more of the story about their first trip. They head out to ton, and Chick talks about the affects of the coffee being like that of coaine or opium, making you see illusions. As they drive through town, traffic is bad around the jail and the school has not been closed on account of Chick story. The townspeople are stopped at the jail because of two negroes sitting in the middle of the street. They debate why they had digging equipment, but they the sheriff has the marshal remove them from the road. They sheriff then leaves and Chick';s uncle gets in his car to follow and tells Chick to get in, but Chick doesn't want to. He is worried that the Beat Four will come and take Lucas, but his uncle states that Lucas is at Hampton's house and the jail is a cover. Chick then gets in the car and they follow the sheriff.
Characters:
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Chick
: Goes home, but he wants to help so his uncle talks to his mom, who allows him to go, but his father thinks otherwise, he ends up drinking some coffee and going into town, is worried about leaving the jail with Lucas there and only a few people watching him.
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Sheriff Hampton
: Heads into town with the others, orders the marshall to get the two negroes off the street, and then keeps going into town
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Gavin
: Talks to Chick's mother to let him go with them after driving him home, they head into town with the sheriff, and at the jail explains to Chick the whole story on where Lucas is being held.
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Maggie
: Allows Chick to help, gives him some coffee.
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Charley Mallison, Sr.
: Chick's father, doesn't want him to do anything out of the ordinary.
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Willy Ingrum
: The marshall.
Vocabulary:
(As used in context)
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Portico
(Pg. 117): A colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of a building.
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Rout
(Pg. 120): To drive out.
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Ineradicable
(Pg. 122): Incapable of being removed.
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Adumbration
(Pg. 122): To give a sketchy representation or outline.
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Varbiage
(Pg. 123): A profusion of words usually of little or obscure content.
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Fatuous
(Pg. 124): Complacently or inanely foolish.
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Quinine
(Pg. 126): A bitter crystalline alkaloid from cinchona bark used in medicine.
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Amalgram
(Pg. 126): A alloy of mercury with another metal that is solid or liquid at room temperature according to the proportion of mercury present and is used especially in making tooth cements.
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Insolent
(Pg. 131): Insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct.
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Liniment
(Pg. 132): A liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant.
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Repudate
(Pg. 134): To refuse to have anything to do with.
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Guffawed
(Pg. 137): A loud or boisterous burst of laughter.
Literary Devices:
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Imagery
(Pg. 117):
"...the shaggy untended cedar grove to the paintless columned portico..."
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Personifaction
(Pg. 121):
"...motherhood doesn't seem to have and pigment in its skin.'"
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Parrelism
(Pg. 123):
"...amazement and protestand anxiety and invincible repudiation..."
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Onamontapia
(Pg. 134):
"...which he had not known was there went flick!..."
Sentence:
"'Jump in the car'" (Pg. 27)
Jump
is is the verb.
in
is a preposition.
the
is an article defined as an adjective.
car
is the direct object of the verb 'jump'.
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