Part 1 of Essay
The book (AILD) is about a family trying to bury their mother, Addie Bundren. As the novel opens, Addie is lying in her bed dying in her family's farmhouse in southeastern Yoknapatawpha County, while outside her oldest son, Cash, is sawing and hammering together her coffin. Her second son, Darl, convinces his brother Je ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... young Vardaman drills holes into the coffin lid (so his mother can breathe), and inadvertently drills into her face. By the time the coffin and the wagon's wheel are repaired, three days have passed, but finally, the family can set off on their journey to bury Addie. Years earlier, shortly after Darl was born, Addie had asked her husband to bury her in Jefferson, where her "people" were from, when she died. So to keep the promise he made to Addie, Anse sets off with his children toward Jefferson. All o ....