Welcome Faulkner to the Inner-City Classroom

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In this paper the author looks at and identifies the best way, in his opinion, to introduce the works of William Faulkner to inner-city students in America. He assumes in his paper that inner-city students have no knowledge of who William Faulkner is and the books he has written. The paper starts with a brief look at his works. The author identifies which books the inner-city students should start working on and proceeds to tell a little bit about each book. The author is careful to point out that the students must form their own opinions about the books and Faulkner himself. In conclusion the author states that a student can gain much insight into people and their motivations from Faulkner, so much so that it can exceed the boundaries of the classroom and aid in an understanding of men in the society in which they live.

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"To begin, it is best to assume that these students know nothing about William Faulkner. This will be their first exposure to him, the instructor must allow the students to form their own opinion from the works covered. A short biography will introduce Faulkner, but the works will be relied upon to give the students a more complete portrait of the man. William Faulkner of Oxford, edited by James W. Webb and A. Wigfall Green is particularly valuable in establishing an identity for Faulkner as a White Southern writer who considered Oxford, Mississippi his home town. Here we are shown a man who knew both the poor White farmers and the Black tenant farmers, a man who was keenly aware of the South's social problems from personal experience. The many photographs reproduced in this book of Faulkner, his family, and Oxford will also be particularly helpful in producing an atmosphere of the South that Faulkner knew."

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