William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

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15. I will

I’m looking forward to it with emotional trepidation after reading reviews of her book.

My mother grew up in the South and she was one of the ones who left it and rejected much of her heritage for the reasons discussed here. One example is she turned her back on religion which she avoided early in her childhood by swallowing the tithe to make herself too sick to go to church and be forced to listen to terrifying damnation sermons.

She was an ill fit as an intellectual in a large farm family and she left to go to college to never return to live there. In many ways though she was never free of the scars of the South and her roots.

Regarding religion, she gave us the freedom to choose our own faith. The important part of her gift is the freedom part, which is a great thing to be given. For my part, after dabbling in various faiths I chose to be an Agnostic Atheist if there is even such a thing.