Birdsongs
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Birdsongs
Sort Name:
Birdsongs
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Other Texts:
Biography:
The man Rider kills belongs to the large Yoknapatawpha family of Birdsongs; the deputy sheriff tells his wife how large it is: "It's more of them Birdsongs than just two or three. . . . There's forty-two active votes in that connection" (148). As voters they have a lot of influence with the county sheriff, but it's clear from both what the deputy says and the events of the story that as a clan the Birdsongs aren't going to rely on the law to punish Rider for killing one of their own.
Note:
I've listed the family as lower class mainly because of a feeling (there are a lot of them in a rural setting, one is a crooked dice-game runner); but I'd sure listen to another side--TMT
Individual or Group:
Group
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