Bundren Children In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

Based upon the current events in our world of psychology and the world that William Faulkner has portrayed in his novel of As I Lay Dying, we can assume that the distinction and correspondence between the physiological behaviour that each character in the Bundren family sets has a strong connection between our present of time. The main reason to the explanation of why a person has such a characteristic form of behaviour is usually influenced by how and whom they are raised, which for the most part, is usually a parent or parents. In this case, Addie and Anse impact the Bundren children by their beliefs and actions which leads the children to be negatively affected in a range of forms.

Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is completely relied on the perspective

Addie mentions the relationship she had with her father and a specific statement said by him: “I could have remembered how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.” (pg. 169). Although the possibility of it being told to her as a child, a father giving their own child the words that the purpose of life is to get prepared for the stay of death only justifies how much of a negative impact they are [giving]. Little to little, this could lead to a child feeling unwanted, unloved, underserved, and unprotected because the negative usage of words on a child are completely understandable by them. Today, it is obviously not appropriate for a parent to use those words on a child. Obviously, the father would be considered a psychopath. Continuing, in most cases of CPS (Child Protective Services), children are lead psychologically damaged by the way they are raised: they could either be physically abused or emotionally abused. The term “physically abuse” means for a child to be physically injured by the cause of the following: