As I Lay Dying - Setting

Question 1

setting

Answer 1

• 1920’s South in hot July
• an impoverished rural county called Yoknapatawpha in the town of Jefferson
• have to cross a river to get to Jefferson. the bridge is out, so the journey is even longer than normal
• part of the southern culture
• • does not allow people to speak ill to or about others
• • does not allow people to tell other people what to do

Question 2

note

Answer 2

• the journey itself
• being set in the south
• people were polite
• because of the 1920s southern customs