Word: snopeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dealing with uncommon insight into the problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its fight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the...
Dealing with uncommon insight into the problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its flight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-paced; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing...
North & South. This view of the South as an area trapped between Sartoris impotence and Snopes viciousness explains Faulkner's harshness and fury. He is a man possessed and tortured by his vision: too honest to deny it, too sensitive to tolerate it. The horrors of his books-the...
And he can be direct and simple. When he wants to describe Flem Snopes's eyes, he calls them "two gobs of cup grease on a hunk of raw dough."