In living to tell the tale, which sentence from paragraph 7 most strongly supports the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family? a) “the town dignitaries came to maria consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.” b) “i went that night with papalelo, and we found her sitting in an armchair from manila that looked like an enormous wicker peacock, surrounded by the fervor of her friends who listened to the story she had repeated a thousand times.” c) “everyone agreed with her that she had fired out of sheer fright.” d) “maria consuegra, it seemed, had not been conscious of this heart-breaking lament until my grandfather asked her the question.”

In a 10-12 sentence response-style paragraph, explore the degree to which you agree or disagree with faulkner’s message. “i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. he is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. the poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. it is his privilege to man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. the poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to him endure and prevail” (faulkner 773-775).