William Faulkner expresses how we write in the world of today through his Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech. He enunciates how the people do not express the hardships that human kind have had to go through but more talk about how the tree flows through the wind instead. He frowns upon this change and tells us about our ignorance. Most importantly, he asks us to revert to our past writings. He believes that there is still hope and that he will not stand for such nonsense to happen at all.
In "That Evening Sun" we see the types of human injustice that Faulkner is trying to tell the people to go back to. Our main character in the story, Nancy, is an African American woman and although she is of a different race many see her as a positive influence and a friend which was not common for anyone to think of at all. However, others thought of her as just another black woman. This is the type of injustice that Faulkner is trying to bring others back to. Not a tree but an actual human life. A life that is going through injustices.
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