Shawn Pi-SHOAT
We all know Shawn Picciott is the man so why did these idiots spell his name wrong (Thanks Brian)? A shoat is another name for a baby pig. This floats down the river during the chaotic crossing scene. "There was a a shoat come by, blowed up like a balloon: one of them spotted shoats of Lon Quicks. It bumped up against the rope like it was an iron bar and bumped off and went on, and us watching that rope slanting down into the water. We watched it," (Faulkner 155). The pig was most likely dead as it was floating in the river and was "blowed up like a balloon." It represented Addie as she was shoat-out-of-luck to be peacefully buried. The pig may have also represented the failing luck and hope of the Bundrens as they trekked along their journey as they watched the pig float down the river along with it we saw any hopes of prosperity sink down similarly. Another form of a shoat is a cross between a sheep and a goat (as the name suggests). As Jewel would be the one in the water at this point in the story, as the shoat is, he would be the son of a sheep and a goat. The goat, being a symbol of the devil, would be Reverend Whitfield, while the sheep comes from Addie to whom represents cowardice.
Is Addie a horse or a fish? According to Darl, we see that he portrays his mother to be a horse. This clearly let the reader know that something was awry, which was proven later on when we learned that Jewel truly does have a different father. However, Vardaman sees his mother in a much different light. A fish is the prized animal Vardman has chosen to play the represent his mother in his immature, youthful way of thinking.
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2014/07/12.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoat_%28disambiguation%29
Alex Tripodi . Shawn Picciott . Brian Hart . Dan Leo
Is Addie a horse or a fish? According to Darl, we see that he portrays his mother to be a horse. This clearly let the reader know that something was awry, which was proven later on when we learned that Jewel truly does have a different father. However, Vardaman sees his mother in a much different light. A fish is the prized animal Vardman has chosen to play the represent his mother in his immature, youthful way of thinking.
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2014/07/12.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoat_%28disambiguation%29
Alex Tripodi . Shawn Picciott . Brian Hart . Dan Leo