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William Faulkner's Character Joe Christmas and his Labels

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the South, the degeneration of values, the effect of racism and the psychological state of mind of Southerners (http://www.ci.kk.dk/skoler/ oestre_borgerdydskole/pb3xy12.htm). In apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County, setting for most of his  fiction and patterned after his real-life home in Oxford and Lafayette County, Mississippi, Faulkner writes of regional characters who tell of economic and social frustrations. This famous address in  American literature is a familiar location to literature students of all ages who encounter it in such stories as Barn Burning, A Rose for Emily, and That Evening Sun.  One of the creators of the modern imagination Faulkner was one of the writers, who along with people like Joyce and Elliot and Pound were simply breaking away from  much of what had constituted poetry and fiction in the 19th century, trying new strategies. His original method of writing included the use of specific detail, the dual  nature of his characters, the long sentence, the looping chronology, the different narrative perspectives, and the constant moving back between past and present (Kartiganer ppg). Use of specific  detail Yoknapatawpha is very specific, it shows us, who we are, what forms us, how should we live, what kind of small responsibility do we take for our  lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown in characters Significantly in his complex  characterization of Abner Snopes (Barn Burning), Faulkner captures the conflict and split within the Snopeses value system as well. Although the father is a destructive individual, abusive and violent within  the family, slothful about work, a man to be feared, still he embodies many qualities Faulkner celebrates. Abners very defiance of the humiliation at the white mans doorway, his courage,