lit analysis questions

1.As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a novel about one family's journey to bury their Dead mother and Wife Addie in the town of Jefferson. They face many adversities along the way, and each character struggles with their own concerns along the journey. It is told through the viewpoints of each character, which changes from chapter to chapter, which allows the reader to be omniscient about each characters struggles and incentives for going on the trip to Jefferson. The  family heads for Jefferson after the funeral with mother in coffin. Their travel is made troublesome because bridges they need to use where affected by a flood. After they get past that hurdle and recover by selling people's valuables, all while the characters deal with their own evils, including Dewey Dell's pregnancy which they want to get aborted, they reach Jefferson. But one of Addie's sons goes crazy with disbelief in the journey and tries to cremate their mother in a house fire, but her other son Jewel saves the coffin. Addie is finally given her burial and Darl is sent to a mental hospital. Anse, Addie's husband, uses money that was meant for Dewey Dell's abortion to buy some false teeth and a new wife.

2. The theme of this novel is every person struggles with their own internal evils. There are many examples in the novel. Anse, who is supposed to be going to Jefferson to bury his wife, is more interested in buying a set of false teeth. Dewey Dell struggles with her ill-legitimate pregnancy, Darl is struggling to come to terms with burying his mother in Jefferson, and Vardaman is completely unsettled with his mothers death. Even Addie who tells us from beyond the grave that heir evil was an affair, which led to the birth of Jewel. Faulkner gives all of his characters evils and shows us how some overcome them, while others succumb to them.
3. The author's tone varies a lot, for it changes every time the character who is narrating changes. For Jewel, his tone is angry and vulgar, often mad with what goes wrong, "Goddamn him(his father). Goddamn him and this journey." When Vardaman is talking, the tone becomes worrisome and troubled, for Vardaman is concerned with the well being of his mother despite her death, "And so if Cash nails the box up , she (his mother) is not a rabbit I couldn't breath in the crib and Cash is gonna nail it up." When Anse is talking, the tone becomes more concerned with himself than others, "But now I can get them teeth. That will be a comfort. It will."
4.  1. Metaphor-Vardaman compares his mother to a fish he gutted early in how her life was snuffed out. 2. Omniscient view- The reader sees through everyone's eyes and knows all their thoughts, helping the reader understand their motives. 3. Foreshadow- Addie describes her affair and how Jewel is not Anse's son before it becomes important in the story. 4. Indirect characterization- We learn about who the characters are through their thoughts. 5. Direct characterization- Sometimes the narrator will directly say what another character is like. 6. Tragic flaws- Each character has their own tragic flaw to help support Faulkner's theme. 7.  Diction- Faulkner uses a southern dialect with some of his characters when they talk to make it seem more realistic. 8.