That Evening Sun

"The Evening Sun" is a short story written by William Faulkner in 1931. Faulkner's life and family history in the south had a great influence on Faulkner's composition style, including content and background, but his understanding of the southern culture and historical events only deepens his work's depth is. As well as many of Faulkner's stories, the events of Sun Evening News were held in a fictional city Jefferson. The story was transmitted by Quentin Compson of 9 years old at the time, but now it is an adult talking about the event 15 years ago.

"The coming sun" William Faulkner (1931) When Mercury appeared in the United States in March 1931, the editor HL Makenken changed William Faulkner's "The evening of the sun" (the sun of the time was sunk) . Make it more suitable for magazine readers. In other words, Mokken objected to a clear statement about the name of Jesus, the lover of Nancy, the story of PROTAGONIST, and the white bank's cashier and the church deacon Stoval's Nancy's pregnancy. Faulkner agreed to change the name of Jesus Zubar and deleted METALPHOR for Nancy's pregnancy of vine, but he was the motive of Jesus' knowledge of her condition to kill her . It is an important element. When the story was republished in this thirteen years (1931), he restored the story to its original form and removed some of the explanations that he considered unnecessary in the last paragraph (see paragraphs 423-424 ).

Facts about companions of American short story document, 2nd edition (literary series companion)

In the evening the sun turned into an Atum, the Creator's God lifted the Faroa from their grave to the stars. The red of the sun at sunset is considered the blood of the god of the sun when he died. After the sunset, it became Osiris, God of death and rebirth god. Thus, night is related to death and life or regeneration. This reflects the typical concept of immortality in Egypt. The center of the Egyptian civilization floods the Nile every year, and abundant soil for agriculture is also offered. Egyptian astronomers, in fact the pastor, have realized that floods will always occur during the summer solstice when the bright Sirius rises in front of the sun. So the priests can predict the annual floods, and it makes them very powerful

The summer solstice occurs at the greatest moment when the earth is leaning toward the sun. Therefore, on the summer solstice day the sun is the highest altitude, the noon position on the day before and after the summer solstice remains almost unchanged. During the summer solstice, the sun passes directly through Mexico, Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and southern China and directly to Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 ° N. Everywhere in the north of the Tropic of Cancer, the sun is at the highest point of the sky, on the longest day.