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On the homepage of
Digital Yoknapatawpha

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select As I Lay
Dying from the menu

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so that it loads a map of
Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County

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as it appears in As I Lay Dying.

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The tools you see
on this page can

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help you compare different
strategies for organizing

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Faulkner's story.

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Is the movement of
the Bundren family

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the main vehicle for our
interpretation, as we follow

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their journey to Jefferson?

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The map you see allows you
to track their progress,

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and it sets the different
sites of the story's action

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in geographical
relation to one another.

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Clicking the player
on the bottom left,

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titled "Page Order,"
will map onto your screen

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the events of the novel as
they appear when you read them.

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Watching the story unfold before
you, however, may make you

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realize just how
much of the story

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takes place with the Bundrens
sitting with Addie's body,

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at home.

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If we click the
heatmap function,

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you'll see that the
warm orange glow

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where the most events take place
is, in fact, the Bundren House.

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We're up to Page 147 before
we attempt to cross the river.

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These pieces of evidence
can help push us

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into further study.

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Can we compare the family's
feelings for one another

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before they move and afterward?

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Does time on the wagon
increase or decrease

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how well they understand and
sympathize with one another?

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You'll see that there are
two ways of organizing

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the events of the novel at
the bottom of the page: page

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order, and chronology.

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We might use these
two ways of "playing"

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the events of the novel to
examine where the Bundrens tend

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to be most stuck or
invested in the past:

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when they are at home, or
when they are "progressing"

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on their journey?

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You can also use
this part of the site

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to examine particular narrators'
sections of the novel.

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How are different locations
or events or time periods

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stressed as we move from
narrator to narrator,

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from Tull's sections
to Darl's sections?

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How does the map
begin to reflect

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the priorities of
each storyteller

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as you narrow your focus?

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