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Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.  \nOriginally published by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in 1932.  \nISBN: 0-394-71189-0  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-12716 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  \nPUBLISHER’S NOTE  \nThe text of this edition of Light in August has been photographed from, and is therefore identical with, a copy of the first printing. Publication date was October 6, 1932.  \nContents  \nContents Chapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nAbout the Author  \nChapter 1  \nSITTING beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I have come from Alabama: a fur piece. All the way from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece.’ Thinking although I have not been quite a month on the road I am already in Mississippi, further from home than I have ever been before. I am now further from Doane ’s Mill than I have been since I was twelve years old.  \nShe had never even been to Doane’s Mill until after her father and mother died, though six or eight times a year she went to town on Saturday, in the wagon, in a mail-order dress and her bare feet flat in the wagon bed and her shoes wrapped in a piece of paper beside her on the seat. She would put on the shoes just before the wagon reached town. After she got to be a big girl she would ask her father to stop the wagon at the edge of town and she would get down and walk. She would not tell her father why she wanted to walk in instead of riding. He thought that it was because of the smooth streets, the sidewalks. But it was be cause she believed that the people who saw her and whom she passed on foot would believe that she lived in the town too.  \nWhen she was twelve years old her father and mother died in the same summer, in a log house of three rooms and a hall, without screens, in a room lighted by a bugswirled kerosene lamp, the naked floor worn smooth as old silver by naked feet. She was the youngest living child. Her mother died first. She said,“Take care of paw.” Lena did so. Then one day her father said,“You go to Doane’s Mill with McKinley. You get ready to go, be ready when he comes.” Then he died. McKinley, the brother, arrived in a wagon. They buried the father in a grove behind a country church one afternoon, with a pine headstone. The next morning she departed forever, though it is possible that she did not know this at the time, in the wagon with McKinley, for Doane’s Mill. The wagon was borrowed and the brother had promised to return it by nightfall.  \nThe brother worked in the mill. All the men in the village. worked in the mill or for it. It was cutting pine. It had been there seven years and in seven years more it would destroy all the timber within its reach. Then  \nsome of the machinery and most of the men who ran it and existed because of and for it would be loaded onto freight cars and moved away. But some of the machinery would be left, since new pieces could always be bought on the installment plan—gaunt, staring, motionless wheels rising from mounds of brick rubble and ragged weeds with a quality profoundly astonishing, and gutted boilers lifting their rusting and unsmoking stacks with an air stubborn, baffled and bemused upon a stumppocked scene of profound and peaceful desolation, unplowed, untilled, gutting slowly into red and choked ravines beneath the long quiet rains of autumn and the galloping fury of vernal equinoxe","cbCaijlhno9VzN5y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijlhno9VzN5y","pdf",1206434,350,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Sitting beside the road\n## Lena’s childhood and arrival in Mississippi\n## Life in the mill village","[{\"question\":\"Who is Lena in Light in August, and where does her journey begin?\",\"answer\":\"Lena is an Alabama-born woman whose parents die when she is twelve. She leaves with her brother for Doane’s Mill in Mississippi, farther from home than she has ever been before.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the mill village play in the story’s setting?\",\"answer\":\"The mill dominates the community: most men work in or for it, and the text describes how its decline will lead to the hamlet being forgotten and dismantled.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Lena’s relationship with her brother and sister-in-law shape her life?\",\"answer\":\"Lena lives in the brother’s household, doing housework and caring for children while the sister-in-law is frequently ill. The brother’s harshness and accusations create a deeply oppressive environment for Lena.\"}]","Light in August - William Faulkner | PDF",539]