As I Lay Dying

The book As I Lay Dying is a story about a very poor southern family whos mother is on the verge of dropping dead. The mother Anse Bundren was a nice kind women and all she wanted in life was to buried with her family in a Mississippi graveyard far from home. The trip was not an easy one though and throughout the journey they fall in to alot of contraversy. The book written by William Faulkner was a good one in my opinion and was very much so a book containing mass amounts of dark humor. The way he descibes the rotting corpse throughout the book is fantastic and he doesnt leave out a single detail. I felt as if I could smell the rotting flesh just through the description he gave the reader. One of my favorite parts in the book not counting the description of the water loged corpse was the part where the youngest Bundren child, Vardaman, associates his mother's death with that of a fish he caught and cleaned earlier that day. After the coffin was made he went into the barn where it was lying and drilled holes in it so that his mother, who he thought was a fish, could breath. He was found the next morning sleeping by the coffin and when they opened the coffin to check if the body was untouched they found that Vardaman had drilled a whole into her skull and many other places. This is only a taste at what is in store for those who dare to read this grueling book.