Yoknapatawpha- dominant, residual and emerging values
by Enrique Wong Reyna
1. Nostalgia for the past
1.1. Student name, day and time of post. Example. Story: A Rose for Emily. The town sees Miss Emily as a living relic of a glorious past, someone who embodies the old Southern nobility. Even though the world around her has changed, she remains, at least in the town’s imagination, a symbol of that lost aristocratic order. Quote: "And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson."(1)
2. You had to create the value, then create a ne bubble with the example. Story: Barn Burning: “He aims for me to lie… And I will have to do it.” (p.2). This moment reveals an emergent value in Yoknapatawpha: the rise of individual moral courage against inherited family violence. Sarty begins to question his father’s corrupt moral code, showing a new value that challenges traditional loyalty. His internal conflict demonstrates how a younger generation tries to break from destructive traditions, signaling a slow emergence of personal ethics within a society dominated by obedience and fear. Pedro Vergara. december 10, 18:49
3. The same here, You had to create the value, then create a ne bubble with the example. They had so many niggers already that they could hardly walk around on their own land for them…” (p.5). This quote illustrates a residual value from the Old South: the normalization of slavery as everyday life. The characters speak about enslaved people as property and obstacles, showing how pre–Civil War racial attitudes survive in the community’s language and humor. Even when the scene appears comedic, the mindset reflects values from an older social order that continue to shape how people think, behave, and justify inequality. Pedro Vergara.december 10
4. Paz Kirby, December 9, 2025. 7:28 am. Story: “Dry September”. The dominant value in this story is racial violence. The men in the town react to the rumor by forming a mob, and they use the supposed need to “protect” Minnie Cooper as their justification. But the story makes it clear that this protection is not real. They never ask Minnie what happened, and they never look for evidence. Instead, they let racism guide their actions and decide that harming Will Mayes is the only answer. "McLendon whirled on the third speaker. 'Happen? What the hell difference does it make? Are you going to let the black sons get away with it until one really does it?'” (pp. 171-172) showing how the rumor becomes an excuse for violence. The men feel powerful through this violent unity, and racism shapes their idea of justice more than truth or concern for Minnie herself. Their claim to defend her is only a mask for the racial hatred that truly motivates them.
4.1. Racial Violence
4.1.1. Martin Carrillo, December 10, 2025. 7:40 pm. Story: Wash: “Git out of my road, niggers.” (p. 2) Wash tries to get back the power he lost, as demonstrating that he as being white, he is superior than black people. Wash is a white, and poor man, with almost none privileges, but in the old south he still treating black people like nothing, only for being black. It is a perfect reference to understand that even a white man with no power, demonstrate that their race, give him power to violent black people. Being blasck is almost the same as being an object.
5. Story: Dry of September. “Won’t you take a white woman’s word before a nigger’s?” (p.169). This quote shows how racial hierarchy operates as a dominant value in Yoknapatawpha: white voices automatically have authority, while Black people are treated as inherently untrustworthy. The community’s moral system is built on protecting white reputation rather than seeking truth, revealing how racism replaces justice with prejudice. Pedro Vergara. December 10, 18:23
6. Pride
6.1. We referred to this value a Commodification of Black Lives (people becoming merchandise because they were slaves. Property Over People
6.2. Andrea Cevallos. December 9, 2025. 12:14 pm. Story: “Barn burning". Abner lives his live without thinking about anyone else, he does bad things and still the his proud of his actions. Here pride is a dominant value. This can be seen in scenes like when Abner said “If I thought enough of a rug to have to git hit all the way from France I wouldn’t keep hit where folks coming in would have to tromp on hit,” here he understand that he did something wrong by dirty de rug, but he still has the pride to say that is De Sapin's fault for putting it there. pg (9)
6.2.1. pride
6.3. Pride is not a value, you are referring to the value 3. Sacrifice for a Greater Cause, and mother Grier is talking about her relatives in the previous war. Martin Carrillo. December 10, 2025. 8:18 pm. Story: Shall not Perish. “He wasn’t running from anybody! He was running in front of them, hollering at all clods to look out because better men than they were coming, even seventy-five years afterwards, still powerful, still dangerous, still coming!” (p.8) This passage explains exactly the way that the mother says that he has pride, not fear. She explains that he was not running from others, he was ahead of everyone taking their history with him. Pride is shown in more than only one way, it is shown by national pride and familiar pride, at trying to explain that he represents everyone with no exception, with power in which his dignity is not turned down.
7. Social and Class Hierarchies (Dominant Value)
7.1. Class Resentment
7.1.1. Joan Vallejo Guevara: "Barn Burning". - When Abner Snopes arrives at the Major de Spain’s large and impressive house, he feels an instant sense of humiliation. His anger is not only against the landowner’s wealth and the factEn el segundo semestre participaré como ponente en un coloquio del área de Literatura en el campus Santiago Gangotena. Además, como cada verano y como ya es habitual, estaré de forma presencial en el campus de Valencia, colaborando en todo lo que se necesite. that he must work for him, but also against the idea that “nigger sweat” built a level of elegance he can never reach as a poor white man. This fuels his need to show power in the only way he knows: through symbolic destruction, by dirtying the rug and, later, by burning the barn. (December 9th, 16:27)
7.1.1.1. "Pretty and white, ain't it?" he said. "That's sweat. Nigger sweat. Maybe it ain't white enough yet to suit him. Maybe he wants to mix some white sweat with it." (Faulkner, 4) - Joan Vallejo Guevara
8. Fernanda, this is not a shared value. A value is a set of beliefs shared intersubjectively. Fernanda Rea. 10 de Diciembre del 2025. Infantilization of the Adult World – Story: Two Soldiers ¿Across what water? I said. Across that Government reservoy up at Oxford. (p. 2) The narrator interprets the global event of Pearl Harbor through familiar local landmarks, revealing how childhood innocence reduces the complexity of adult realities
8.1. We sort of named this value Distrust of Government and Bureaucracy, because how do you know that they trusted instead local authorities. Community Authority Over Federal Authority – Story: The Tall Men Ain’t anybody paying any attention to you at all, the marshal said. (p. 5) The town places greater legitimacy on the marshal’s local authority than on the federal investigator, showing a residual cultural value in which community judgment outweighs national law
8.1.1. Intergenerational Empathy – Story: Two Soldiers
8.1.2. He just laid his hand on my head a minute… and he kissed me. (p. 10)
8.1.3. Pete breaks the Southern ideal of masculine emotional restraint, showing tenderness toward his younger brother; this marks an emerging value of emotional openness across generations
9. Patriarchal Control
9.1. Carolina Beltrán. December 9,2025. Story: "A Rose for Emily". In A Rose for Emily we can see the patriarchal control, because Emily’s father is the one who chooses her suitors and does not let her decide who she loves or wants. This makes Emily depend emotionally on her father and even deny his death. It also creates rumors in the town about this patriarchal power. This is shown in the following quote: "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will (p.5)".
10. Female autonomy
10.1. This is not really a shared value, this is an anecdote. To consider this a value, it has to be seen in other charcters and situations. This example responds better to "Gender Roles."Johanna Ramos, December 9, 2025. 15:41. Story: "A Point of Law"-Nat, despite marrying George for love, set certain conditions before moving in with him. This shows that women of that time were beginning to have a clearer vision of family and personal well-being, and not just being housewives who endured mistreatment from husbands or men. It is even more significant because Nat is a Black woman, whose voice was rarely heard. This emerging value gradually gained support from more women. Quote: “A cookstove. And the back porch propped up. A well.” (p. 5)
10.1.1. Female autonomy was not a value in Yoknapatawpha. Instead, the dominant value was traditional gender roles, within which we see social femininity, the commodification of women, and the regulation of female behavior. Maria Belen Carrillo Racial Maria Belén Carrillo Story: That Evening Sun Dominant Value Gendered Vulnerability In That Evening Sun, a strong dominant value is gendered vulnerability, shown through Nancy’s position as a Black woman with almost no control over her own safety. Nancy is responsible for serving white families, yet these same families cannot or will not protect her when she is in danger. Her work places her inside white homes, but her safety ends at their kitchen door. When she tries to explain that Jesus is going to harm her, the adults dismiss her fear as exaggeration or weakness. Even her pregnancy becomes another source of danger, as Jesus openly threatens her in front of the children. Nancy exists in a world where being a woman means being physically unprotected, socially unheard, and economically dependent. Faulkner uses her constant fear and isolation to expose how gender shapes vulnerability, trapping Nancy in a cycle of danger she cannot escape.
10.1.1.1. Rafaela García: In "A Rose for Emily," this value is reflected in Miss Emily's attitude toward the social pressures of the Jefferson community. She chooses to live by her own rules, even when the town tries to control her. Her refusal to comply with authority is unwavering; she demonstrates autonomy when she declares, "I have no taxes in Jefferson." She asserts her authority in her own space, asserting herself over the men by saying, "I didn't ask you to sit down." Even in her relationship with Homer Barron, while the entire community murmured, "Poor Emily," she continued to appear with the phrase "her head alone," demonstrating and reaffirming her right to decide her own love life. Through all these choices, Emily constantly challenges the town's patriarchal norms, asserting a female autonomy that makes everyone uncomfortable.
11. Power abuse
11.1. Emily Aguilar, December 9, 2025. 3:24 pm Story: "Dry September" The dominant value of racial abuse of power is clear within this story, shown in the way white men from the town enforce racial dominance to control narratives and promote violence towards marginalized communities. These men use racial hierarchies and fear to instigate violent actions, turning an unproven rumor into a tool for asserting authority. This abuse of power silences even those who question the accusation, leaving no room for real justice. The mob’s power, deeply rooted in white privilege, demonstrates how easily status can become weaponized against vunerable groups, and the way they can get away with such actions simply because of their skin color. The quote states: " '...What did they do with the nigger? Did they—?' 'Sure. He's all right.' 'All right, is he?' 'Sure. He went on a little trip.' ... 'Do you see?" ... "There's not a Negro on the square. Not one."" (p. 7).
11.2. Martin Carrillo. December 10, 2025. 8:18 pm. Story: Shall not Perish.
11.3. Joan Vallejo Guevara: "Centaur in Brass" - Flem Snopes, the white boss, creates distrust and fear between the Black firemen Tom-Tom and Turl. He lies to each of them separately, telling them that the other plans to steal brass and get him fired. His goal is to make them so busy fighting each other that they do not notice his own plan to steal the power plant’s brass. Flem also uses his authority to threaten them. He takes advantage of their vulnerable position as Black workers and tells them that if they do not do what he wants, he will fire them. In this way, he keeps them afraid, confused, and easy to control, while he stays safe and invisible. (December 9th, 16:48)
11.3.1. "Then you do like I say. You take that stuff out home with you tonight. Don't let nobody see you; not even your wife. And if you don't want to do it, just say so. I reckon I can get somebody that will do it." (Faulkner, 4) - Joan Vallejo Guevara
12. Social indifference
12.1. We named it "Racial indifference" not social Johanna Ramos, December 9, 2025. 15:36pm. Story: Nancy is a Black servant of the Compson family. She is afraid of meeting her husband again because she was pregnant by a white man and tried to stay with the Compsons so she wouldn’t be alone. But as the days went by, she kept feeling more fear and anguish until Mr. Compson and his children began to accompany her to her cabin. This, however, was not pleasing to Mrs. Compson, who didn’t want to be left alone in the house and disliked the idea that her husband preferred to help a Black woman. On the last day, when Nancy sensed that her husband was going to arrive, Mr. Compson left her alone in the cabin, with the door open, without giving her any kind of protection, knowing that something bad could happen. Quote: “Anyway, I got my coffin money saved up with Mr. Lovelady.” (p. 11)
12.1.1. We did not call it social indifference but Gradual Decline of Aristocratic Authority and Rise of the Common Voice. The town's voice became the main judge. Marco Bonilla , December 10 2025, 23:12 . When Miss Emily refuses to acknowledge her father’s death, the townspeople simply observe and justify her behavior instead of helping her: “We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that.” (pg 5)
13. Resourceful Deceit (Residual Value)
13.1. Joan Vallejo Guevara: "A Point of Law" - Lucas Beauchamp runs an illegal whiskey distillery on the land of the landowner Roth Edmonds. This secret business, which he has kept for almost twenty years, is his way to show his economic independence, to save money (even more than Edmonds, because he pays no taxes), and to resist the full control of the sharecropping system that keeps him dependent. (December 9th: 15:34)
13.1.1. "ever since he built his first still, secretly and at night since nobody needed to tell him what Roth Edmonds would do if he found out about it" (Faulkner, 1) - Joan Vallejo Guevara
13.1.2. "he was probably more solvent than Edmonds, since he owned nothing he had to pay taxes on and keep repaired and fenced and ditched and fertilized" (Faulkner, 2) - Joan Vallejo Guevara
14. Fear and Psychological. That Evening Sun María Belén Carrillo
15. Racial Hierarchy,
16. Fear and psychological vulnerability are not values; they are instincts (or emotional states) and are not tied to any specific culture. You did not make the connection properly, you had to start branching out, first bubble: value, then example. Maria Belén Carrillo Fear and Psychological Vulnerability An emerging value in That Evening Sun is the overwhelming fear that consumes Nancy and gradually reveals her psychological vulnerability. When she insists, “I can feel him… waiting,” Nancy shows a fear so intense that it breaks the boundary between reality and imagination. This fear becomes a lens through which she interprets every sound, every shadow, and every moment alone. It is not only fear of Jesus, but fear born from years of abuse, poverty, and social abandonment. As the story progresses, the children watch her unravel, hearing her strange cries and seeing her unable to drink coffee because her hands shake. Her fear becomes a symbol of how trauma accumulates in a world that offers her no protection. Faulkner suggests that psychological suffering is an inevitable consequence for those who live without safety or support
17. Family Loyalty
17.1. Andrea Cevallos, December 10
18. Resistance to Change
18.1. No, this is not a good example. Resistence to change in that story appears with th Father Griers' first reaction to stay away from the world conflict. Your example is just the ignorance of a poor boy who still was in first grade. Leslie Pilapaña December 10, 2025 Two Soldiers “Across what water?” I said. “Across that Government reservoy up at Oxford?” (p. 2) This story represent a risidual value.The young narrator’s confusion about the "Pacific Ocean" and his idea that the big water is a local "Government reservoy" reveals profound rural isolation and a distrust of or ignorance about distant, modern, and federal structures.
19. Faith in Moral Strength and Dignified Grief
19.1. Correct:story: Shall Not Perish Mathias Torres 09.12.2025 16:17 : This story contrasts two ways of grieving: the bitter disillusionment of Major de Spain and the dignified faith of the narrator’s mother. While the Major views the war as a waste caused by greed, the mother insists on finding meaning in the loss. She represents the value of "Faith in Moral Strength" because she refuses to let despair overtake her pride in her son's sacrifice. She boldly tells the Major: “All men are capable of shame. Just as all men are capable of courage and honor and sacrifice. And grief too. It will take time, but they will learn it. But it will be enough.” (Page 5, line 426). Her ability to balance deep sorrow with hope demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit against the Major's "Confederate style" of hopeless defeat.
20. Camily Rivadeneira december 08, 18:23 pm. The story illustrates how in rural Southern culture, family bonds create obligations that supersede all other considerations, including logic, age, institutional authority, or personal safety. The young narrator cannot conceive of his brother going to war without him because family members protect each other unconditionally. This value reflects the rural Southern worldview where kinship ties structure everything and where institutional systems (government, military, bureaucracy) are foreign and incomprehensible compared to the immediacy and absoluteness of family responsibility. Quote: "I got to go. I got to be there to take care of him."
20.1. Family blood ties (Loyalty)
20.1.1. Carolina Beltrán. December 9, 2025. Barn Burning. Quote: “You’re getting to be a man. You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you. Do you think either of them, any man there this morning, would? Don’t you know all they wanted was a chance to get at me because they knew I had them beat? Eh?” Sarty's father does not appeal to truth or morality, but to the blood tie. The father suggests that, even if other men condemn him, Sarty must remain loyal to him simply because he is his father.
20.1.2. Martin Carrillo. December 10, 2025. 8:40 pm. Story: Shall not Perish. "land, the seventy acres which were our breadand fire and keep, which had outlasted the Griers before us because they had done right by it, and had outlasted Pete because while he was here he had done his part to help and would outlast Mother and Father and me if we did ours." (p. 2). This extract shows the way of the family to respect each other generation by generation. Loyalty is shown through their family members which no one have hurt or denied what they are. The land has survived because of the responsibility that everyone have in it. Even before the dead of Pete, he finished and honor what their family have done because of the loyalty that he had with them.
20.2. Rafaela García: In Barn Burning, Faulkner illustrates how family loyalty is enforced through fear and expectation. Early in the story, Sarty feels the weight of this obligation when he thinks of his father as “our enemy… mine and hisn both! He’s my father!” This reveals that loyalty is demanded even when he senses wrongdoing. Later, as Abner confronts him, Sarty recognizes his father’s control and feels “the old fierce pull of blood” that keeps him tied to his family. These moments highlight how powerful and conflicting blood loyalty is for Sarty, binding him to his father even as he starts to resist internally.
21. Self-Reliance and Rural Resilience
21.1. Gabriel Parra 10/12/2025: In “Two S oldiers,” Faulkner shows the Grier f amily’s self-reliance and rural r esilience through their constant l abor and ability to endure hardship w ithout complaint. Their life is s tructured around work, cutting w ood, tending the land, and no m atter how difficult circumstances b ecome, they continue pushing f orward. The narrator emphasizes h ow the family survives with limited r esources and without outside help, d escribing their father’s continual s truggle to keep up with the land: “Pap was still behind, just like he had been ever since me and Pete had knowed him” (p.2). This line reveals that the family’s resilience is habitual and lifelong; falling behind does not break them, because self-reliance is an expected part of their existence. Their endurance, whether working the fields, preparing firewood, or dealing with Pete’s decision to enlist, is rooted in a rural identity where progress comes only through personal effort.
22. Social Change
22.1. This is more like a "moral awakening" Paz Kirby, December 9, 2025. 7:42 am. Story: “Dry September”. The emerging value in this story is social change, shown through the few characters who question the mob ’s violence. Hawkshaw, the barber, tries to stop the men and asks them to think before acting. He keeps saying there is no proof, and at one point tells them, “The barber held the drummer’s face down, the razor poised. ‘Find out the facts first, boys. I know Willy Mayes. It wasn’t him. Let’s get the sheriff and do this thing right.’” (p. 172). His voice shows a different moral possibility, one that is based on truth instead of racial hatred. Even though he is only one person against many, his doubts represent a small movement toward fairness and responsibility. This emerging value is weak compared to the town’s dominant racism, but it shows that not everyone agrees with the violent traditions of Yoknapatawpha County.
23. Pamela Chillán December 9 2025 20:00 pm Centaur in Brass: “It is always strange to what involved and complex methods a man will resort in order to steal something.” (p. 3). This line reveals how Flem prioritizes material gain above human safety, risking an explosion just to steal brass. Faulkner exposes a culture where economic value overshadows the worth of individuals.
23.1. We referred to this value a Commodification of Black Lives (people becoming merchandise because they were slaves. Property Over People
23.2. Rafaela García: In “Centaur in Brass”, in this old South, people often valued property and material gain more than human life. This is evident when Snopes chooses to remove crucial safety measures from the plant to keep the brass, regardless of the harm their employees would be exposed to. The text describes how Harker finds that “the three safety whistles gone and the vents stopped with one-inch steel screw plugs” (p. 3). This decision puts Turl, Tom-Tom, and everyone in the plant at serious risk. This moment illustrates that the idea of “protecting what is mine” takes priority over safety: material things matter more than people. Faulkner uses this detail to show that, in this world, the lives of workers, especially Black workers, were seen as less valuable than the chance for profit.
23.2.1. We called this value "commodification of people"Emily Aguilar December 10, 2025 7:40 am Story: "Wash" This priority to put property above people can also be seen this story as ... practically dehuminazes Wash granddaughter right after giving birth, comparing her and his newborn as less importante than a mare.
24. Opportunistic inteligence or cunning (Emergent)
24.1. Ana Paula Benítez, December 9, 23:30: An emergent value in Yoknapatawpha is the reliance on opportunistic intelligence, which is the ability to take advantage of timing, loopholes, or others’ assumptions to navigate the social environment. Characters learn to survive within rigid power structures by being strategic, clever, and subtly manipulative. This kind of intelligence emerges as a response to the failures of formal institutions and the pressure exerted on marginalized social groups (black african americans, women, lower social classes).
24.1.1. This value is shown in "A Point of Law", where Lucas’s sharp awareness of justice management and social norms show how he uses intelligence to manage accusations and protect himself. Another example is seen in the story "Shingles for the Lord", where Ab Snopes shows opportunistic intelligence through his “half-a-dog” deal: he sells his half of a hunting dog but then secretly buys back the other half from a different owner. Even though his negotiation went wrong at the end, his cunning exposes how manipulation becomes a survival tool in Yoknapatawpha’s unstable social order.
24.2. In “Centaur in Brass,” Flem Snopes establishes his control and authority thanks to his ability to be opportunistic, which allows him to manipulate the community and his associates in order to rise socially and economically. This is reflected in the following passage: “That technically unassailable opportunism which passes with country folks and town folks, too for honest shrewdness” (Faulkner, p.1). Likewise, we can see that in Flem Snopes' philosophy, dishonest cunning and deception are the accepted and effective way to climb the social ladder. Flem represents the ideology of the time, in which personal gain is justified, regardless of the means used. (Grace Quelal)
25. Questioning Social Norms
25.1. Marco Bonilla, december 8, 21:59 pm. Two Soldiers: Pete’s mother challenges the traditional Southern expectation that men must go to war out of honor and patriotic duty. Instead of sacrifice, she openly rejects the idea that her son should be taken from his home to defend a nation that gives her no security. Her reaction reveals a growing panic and fear toward the social norms that define masculinity, duty, and nationalism in the South. Quote: “I don't want to save the country. Them Japanese could take it and keep it, so long as they left me and my family and my children alone.” (pg 4)
25.1.1. Emily Aguilar, December 10, 7:00 pm. Story: "A Point of Law" Within this story, we can again see an emerging sense of defiance or questioning of the social norm. Men who should traditionally, only do work for white landowners, find a way to reclaim a small sense of power. The hidden still that Lucas ran for 20 years, grants him access to economic gain of the land, and eventually lets George in too. Although it is illegal, it is a form of resistance challenging a society ctruetured to keen them in niace Quote: "But he was not going to let George Wilkins or anybody else move into the country where he had lived for forty-five years and set up in competition with him in a business which he had established and nursed carefully and discreetly for almost twenty years, ever since he built his first still, secretly and at night since nobody needed to tell him what Roth Edmonds would do if he found out about it." (p. 1).
26. Carolina Beltrán. December 09 2925. Centaur in a Brass. "They didn't know that he was contemplating his monument: that shaft taller than anything in sight and filled with transient and symbolical liquid that was not even fit to drink, but which, for the very reason of its impermanence, was more enduring through its fluidity and blind renewal than the brass which poisoned it, than columns of basalt or of lead." The stolen brass, hidden in the water tank, is the property that Snopes has amassed. By calling it his 'monument,' the story criticizes a culture where a man's legacy is not his honor or service, but his material wealth obtained through exploitation. His true monumental work is not the water tower itself, but the secret of the material wealth it contains.
27. We could name this value Community-based justice.Justice informality (Dominant)
27.1. Ana Paula Benítez December 9, 23:30: In Yoknapatawpha, justice is not primarily delivered through official courts or legal procedures. Instead, conflicts are settled through community pressure, gossip, reputation, and collective judgment. What counts as “justice” depends on how the town interprets intentions, morality, and social order. This creates a system where public opinion outweighs evidence, and restoring social harmony matters more than discovering the truth.
27.1.1. In Dry September Faulkner shows how justice in Yoknapatawpha is shaped less by legal institutions and more by community's judgment. In the first story the mob acts as an informal court, deciding guilt based on rumor and racial prejudice rather than evidence, even saying "Are you going to let the black sons get away with it until one really does it?" (Faulkner 172).
27.1.2. Gabriel, you connected the first value to one that had been defined by Ana Paula, she had called it informality of justice. We could name this value Community-based justice. Your example connects better to the value "Violence as a form of power."Gabriel Parra 10/12/2025: In Barn Burning, Faulkner shows the clash between the old violent justice system and the newer legal one. Abner Snopes relies on retaliation, especially fire, as his form of justice, sending Harris the threat, “He say to tell you wood and hay kin burn” (p.1). By contrast, the Justice of the Peace tries to impose evidence and procedure, insisting, “But that’s not proof. Don’t you see that’s not proof?” (p.1). Yet the court is too weak to stop Abner’s destructive methods. The story reveals a community caught between personal vengeance and an emerging legal order, leaving Sarty torn between blood loyalty and the hope for a fairer system.
28. Honor and Personal Responsibility
28.1. Story: The Tall Men Mathias Torres 1 2.09.2025 18:30 : In this story, the d ominant value of personal honor is s trictly tied to financial i ndependence. The McCallum family r efuses to participate in government a id programs not because they don't n eed help, but because their moral c ode forbids taking what they h aven't earned through their own l abor. When the investigator asks w hy they didn't sign the papers, the f amily explains that their integrity is w orth more than federal money. This i s clear when they state: “We are aiming to get money for it. When we can’t, we will try something else. But not from the Government. Give that to them that want to take it. We can make out.” (Page 7, lines 654-655). This moment highlights a refusal to compromise their traditional code of self-sufficiency for modern convenience.
28.1.1. DANA RUIZ COMMENT Dec 10/ 10pm “Shall Not Perish” In this story, personal responsibility appears as a defining value for Southern rural families. Even in grief, the narrator expresses a deep sense of independence tied to land and identity. When told he must return home and “take care of maw and look after Pete’s ten acres,” he insists on his ability to go back on his own, showing that self-reliance is not only economic but also emotional and familial duty. “I can get back, I reckon. I don't live in but one place. I don't reckon it's moved.” (p. 22)
28.2. This third example is correct, no quote, though. María Belén Carrillo, Story: Tall Man Dominat Value: Honor and Duty In “The Tall Men,” the McCallum family embodies a deep sense of honor and duty that guides every decision they make. b) Even when faced with government pressure, injury, and hardship, they insist on taking responsibility for their actions—Buddy refusing comfort, the twins preparing to enlist without complaint, and the family maintaining dignity in the face of misunderstanding. Their commitment to duty is not forced by law but emerges naturally from their identity, showing that honor, for them, is a lived value rather than a spoken one.
29. Materialism
29.1. We had named that value: "Gross Materialism" and it was a negative value, we associated it to the greed that Flem Snopes and characters of his sort, exhibited. What you are naming here is "Loyalty to the Land."Domenica Duran Story: Shall not Perish. Quote: "The seventy acres that were our bread and fire and our sustenance, a land that had outlived all the Griers who came before us because they knew how to care for it, and that outlived Pete because while he was with us he did his part and lent a hand, and that was going to outlive Mother and Father and me as long as we did ours" (pag 83). In this story, materialism is shown as a value that families pass from one generation to another. The land is not just something they own, this represents duty, honor, and the continuation of the family. The seventy acres show who the Griers are, and taking care of it becomes a moral responsibility. The quote makes it clear that the land lasts longer than any person people die, but the property stays. Faulkner shows that the family’s identity is strongly connected to this piece of land, which stands for stability and sacrifice
29.2. This example is forced. We defined the value "Gross materialism" associated to greed. This anecdote does not match any value discussed in class. Paula Moreno. 10/12/25/ 10:27 pm. Story: A rose for Emily. Example: “She had bought a man’s toilet set in silver, with his initials on each piece.” the explanation for these ir that Emily purchases luxurious objects to construct an appearance of stability and social status, revealing how material goods are used to maintain class identity.
30. Racial and Social Hierarchies
30.1. The name of the story is "Was" not Justice. Paula Moreno. 10-12-25. 22:10. Story: a Justices. "you get Filus... I still get the three hundred dollars Filus owes me for Tennie". the explanation for this is that black lives are treated as transferable property in a card game, showing how deeply normalizes racial hierarchy and slavery are in the community
30.1.1. Correct: Samantha Aguilera, december 10. Story: "Centaur in Brass" In this story, we can see a clear example of this value when Turl is reduced solely to his job function and his race. This shows us that the system defines him as subordinate and easy to manipulate. We can see this in the following part of the story: “Turl, I had better repeat, was the night fireman; a Negro too…” a derogatory comment, needless to say.
30.2. The example and the explanation are correct but not connected to the right value. I think this fits better the emerging value "Emerging Bureaucratic Order." Domenica Duran Stoy: The tall men quote “We have invented, I’m telling you, so many alphabets and so many rules and formulas that we can no longer see anything else; if what we see does not fit into one of the alphabets, into one of the rules, we are lost.” This quote from the introduction explains how society creates many rules, systems, and “alphabets” that tell people how to think and how to judge others. If something or someone does not fit into these rules, people feel confused or think it is wrong. This idea connects to The Tall Men because the government agent looks at the McCallum family through these “social rules.” He sees them as people who must follow the codes of the State, not as individuals with their own values. Faulkner shows that social hierarchies work exactly like this people in power use rules to decide who is “right,” who is “wrong,” and who is in the lower levels of society. The McCallums do not fit into his “alphabet,” so he treats them with suspicion and judgment.
31. You did not connect this to a a value bubble. Samantha Aguilera, December 9. 20:44 Story: "That Evening Sun" Other example of racial violence is clearly seen when Nancy desperately expresses her position in a racial hierarchy of the South, saying: “I ain’t nothing but a nigger…”. It is an example of how society has internalized its own lack of humanity. Nancy does not insult herself for pleasure, but she wants to reveal the position that white people imposed on her. She expresses psychological and structural violence, that violence does not need fists because it already lives within language and other things in daily life. We can see this passed from generations when we see that children despite not understanding it, simply repeat what they hear around them. It is also an example of racial hierarchy
31.1. Racial Hierarchy
31.2. Incorrect: there is no black servant moving like a cat at the McCallum0s property.Franks Mejia, december 10 Story: The Tall Men Faulkner shows how racial hierarchy operates quietly but powerfully inside the McCallum household. The Black servant appears only in brief moments, yet his presence reveals how normalized racial inequality is in this community. He moves efficiently, silently, and without acknowledgment almost erased from the emotional landscape of the white characters. His actions are described with animal imagery, reinforcing his position in a social system where he is expected to remain invisible and obedient. Direct quote: The servant comes and goes “without making any more noise on the floor than a cat.” (p. 4)
32. Nationalism
32.1. Andrea Cevallos. December 10 2025. 9:47 pm. "Two soldiers" Here Pete shows clearly that going to war is not something he desires to do, but he can not let his country down, "Folks don't go to wars for fun. A man don't leave his maw crying just for fun." pg (4) This is a real example of nationalism, were young men go to war to fight for a country that wont protect them. This is an emerging value
32.2. Paula Moreno. 10-12-25. 10:21 pm. Story: Two Soldiers Example (real quote): “I just ain’t going to put up with no folks treating the United States that way.” Explanation: Pete’s decision to enlist after Pearl Harbor reflects a strong sense of national loyalty and personal responsibility to defend the country.
33. Emergent Value: Individual Moral Courage
33.1. Story: Barn Burning. “He aims for me to lie… And I will have to do it.” (p.2). This moment reveals an emergent value in Yoknapatawpha: the rise of individual moral courage against inherited family violence. Sarty begins to question his father’s corrupt moral code, showing a new value that challenges traditional loyalty. His internal conflict demonstrates how a younger generation tries to break from destructive traditions, signaling a slow emergence of personal ethics within a society dominated by obedience and fear. Pedro Vergara. December 10, 18:38
34. Emergent Value: Individual Moral Courage
35. Loyalty to the Nation and Patriotism
35.1. Correct. Leslie Pilapaña December 10, 2025 The Tall Men “The Government done right by me in my day, and it will do right by you.” (p. 5) This example represents a dominant value. Buddy McCallum embodies traditional patriotism and duty. Even amid his severe injury and his family’s resistance to government interference, he tells his sons to enlist, believing that serving the nation is a moral duty that honors their family’s integrity.
36. Growing Empathy
36.1. Not correct. Marco, calling this value “growing empathy” is not quite accurate, because what you are describing is not a shared value operating at the community level, but a personal, paternal response.Marco Bonilla A Point of Law: (She was too young to be married… Just a stove and a new back porch and a well were not enough.” (pg 7) Lucas begins to show a subtle but meaningful growth in empathy when he sees Nat trembling before Judge Gowan. In that moment, he stops thinking only about his pride, his still, or his rivalry with George, and instead recognizes the emotional and practical burden that marriage would place on his daughter. This shift reveals an emerging ability to imagine her fears and needs beyond his own interests.
37. Residual Value: Slave-Era Racial Logic Treated as “Normal”
38. Sense of America as a Shared National Identity
38.1. Story: Two Soldiers Mathias Torres 10.12.2025 18:34 : In this story, the young narrator and his brother Pete show an emerging national consciousness that supersedes their intense loyalty to their local community of Frenchman's Bend. This is an Emerging Value because their family's traditional worldview is typically resistant to outsiders and government. However, Pete's decision to enlist after the Pearl Harbor attack is driven by an impersonal sense of duty to the greater nation ("Unity States") rather than just his family. He leaves home and his ten acres, marking a symbolic shift from local allegiance to a unified American identity. This is clear when he tells his younger brother: “I got to go. I just got to. Now you go on to sleep. I got to ketch that early bus in the morning.” (p. 4). This quote highlights that his motivation is now an external, national obligation that is non-negotiable, even for his closest relative.
39. Pamela Chillán December 9 2025 20:00 pm Shingles for the Lord: “He found out he would not only have to sign his farm off into somebody else’s name, he couldn’t even own and run the school bus that he had built himself.” (p. 3). This quote shows the rural community’s deep mistrust toward federal programs such as the WPA. Solon rejects government control because he sees bureaucracy as intrusive, unreasonable, and a threat to personal independence.
39.1. Distrust of Modernity and Outsiders
40. UNJUST EQUALITY
40.1. This example responds to the value "Class privilege and social hierarchy" Not to unjust equality Bruno Custode December 10th “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town… Colonel Sartoris remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.” pag 2 In “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner depicts how Emily is especially protected after her father’s death when the town begins to treat her as a symbol of the past rather than as an equal citizen. The authorities forgive her taxes, ignore her strange behavior, and avoid confronting her directly. While other people must follow the law, Emily is treated differently because of her family name and social history. This reveals an unjust form of equality, where the law is not applied equally to everyone.
40.1.1. Corruption
40.1.1.1. Corruption and Bureaucratic Complicity is a separate value, it had to branch out straight from the CORE. Bruno Custode “And he reaches down and hauls out the money and pays them the three hundred and four dollars and fifty-two cents in cash, and asks for a receipt.”(pag 5) In "Centaur in Brass" Faulkner shows corruption to be a system where power, money and cunning replace justice. Flem Snopes manipulates the law, controls others through fear and money, and turns crime into opportunity. Justice no longer depends on truth, but on who has influence, revealing a society where morality is easily bought and controlled.