Chapter #1

Hello all! I am proud to say that I have successfully made it through the first chapter of The Sound and the Fury! Yes, I will admit, I am very confused, however I am beginning to understand the way the book is written! Honestly, when I began reading this book, I was extremely nervous because Ms. Oles, (my A.P. Lit teacher) informed the class that this was the hardest book we would be reading in her class! Now, I was completely terrified, I thought Moby Dick would be the hardest thing I ever read! Luckily for me, my timidness faded away when I realized the book isn't half bad. I realized that you just had to take it step by step and acknowledge that the book is designed so you don't understand everything that is going on right away. Reading the first chapter from this perspective, I learned many things about the books and characters!
Here is a list of what I discovered in the first chapter:
-Benjy has no sense of time and in the first chapter is 33 years of age
-Benjy is also the youngest son of the Compson family
-Caddy is one of the Compson sisters
-Caddy and Benjy have a close relationship with each other.
-Luster is an unfriendly black boy who bullies Benjy
-Versh is a servant
-Quentin and Jason are the other Compson brothers who seem not to like Benji.
-Disley is Luster's grandmother and the Compson's cook
-The chapter begins with Luster and Benjy on a golf course
This is all that I have discovered in the book so far but I'm sure everything will begin to piece together better soon!