How I Survived Faulkner

Faulkner has been a very difficult course for me. Not only was the material out of my comfort zone along with its concepts, but I also was introduced to a new way of storytelling. Now I must admit I would certainly like to try imitating the modernist stream of consciousness in my writing at some point, but I know that I would never be able to master it to the level that Faulkner has. In that I will always be looking back to this course and reviewing my multiple pages of notes on different works of Faulkner. One thing I will walk away with having accomplished is making sense of the family trees of his characters. I have discussed in previous blogs what a Prezi is and that Sonia and I had intent to do one for our final project. Well here is the fruit of our efforts over the course of the semester: http://prezi.com/xbrkuistkrqy/faulkners-family-trees/?kw=view-xbrkuistkrqy&rc=ref-21851645 . I must say that I am very proud of this link and I would encourage anyone with time on their hands to look through it. Not only did this project test my skills as an English major, but also my acquired skills in the Multimedia course I was taking this semester because I created the formatting of the Prezi from scratch. After sifting through generations of confusing incest and affairs complicating the family trees of Faulkner, Sonia and I finally came to an understanding of where each character fit in and we have formatted the Prezi to flow in the right order which was no easy ordeal. We also included an art show to describe the books we covered instead of just writing a blurb. This was also done because we easily bored of figuring out genealogies and wanted to add a more creative element. Anyway, I am very happy to have taken this course because I have made friends in a field that I am new in and am finally beginning to feel like I fit in somewhere in this university. Thank you all!