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The Southern Male Perspective

The Southern Male Perspective. My Losing Season, Deliverance , and the Sound and the Fury. Pat Conroy. Wrote fictional and autobiographical novels based on his life growing up in a southern military family. He focused a lot on his time playing basketball for the Citadel. James Dickey.

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The Southern Male Perspective

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  1. The Southern Male Perspective My Losing Season, Deliverance, and the Sound and the Fury

  2. Pat Conroy • Wrote fictional and autobiographical novels based on his life growing up in a southern military family. • He focused a lot on his time playing basketball for the Citadel

  3. James Dickey • James Dickey is a southern poet who is know mostly for his novel Deliverance.

  4. William Faulkner • Considered on of the most important writers in Southern literature • Wrote many of his story’s in a fictitious county based on Oxford, Mississippi where he lived. • It was called Yoknapatawpha County

  5. My Losing Season • Written By Pat Conroy in 2002 • It is an autobiographical novel describing his time at The Citadel. • During this time he had an abusive coach while at home having a worse father.

  6. Deliverance • Deliverance, written in 1970, is an adventure novel about four men who go on a canoeing trip that is filled with danger. • Bored with their lives at home.

  7. Deliverance • During the journey the main characters, Lewis and Ed, are forced to adapt. • This trip is necessary for them to be content with their lives.

  8. The Sound And The Fury • Written in 1929 By William Faulkner. • Story of a deeply rooted southern family, the Compsons • Written using a narrative technique called stream of consciousness

  9. The Sound And The Fury • The first section is narrated by Benjamin • Benjamin is the “idiot” youngest son • He cries at anything out of the ordinary • Loved three things the pasture, his sister Caddy, and firelight.

  10. The Sound And The Fury • The second section is narrated by Quentin • Quentin is the oldest brother • The pasture was sold for Quentin to go to Harvard. • Feels pressured by the constraints of his culture. • He later kills himself.

  11. The Sound And The Fury • The third section is narrated mostly by Jason • The second youngest brother • He feels cheated • Not given the same chance as Quentin or Caddy • He has insurmountable greed • He plays the role of the dominate male in the house

  12. Work Cited • Beck, Warren. "The Antioch Review." Antioch Review 1.1 (1941): 82-94. Web. 18 May 2011. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/4608822>. • Conroy, pat. My Losing Season. 1st ed. Nan A. Talease, 2002. Print. • Dickey, James. Deliverance. 1st ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Print. • Faulkner, William. The Sound and The Fury. 2nd Edition. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Co., 1929. Print. • Pladott, Dinah. "William Faulkner: The Tragic Enigma." Journal of Narrative Technique 15.2 (1985): 97-119. Web. 18 May 2011. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/30225119>.

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