The Author's Style

Jewel:
"And now them others sitting there, like buzzards. Waiting, fanning themselves. Because I said If you wouldn't keep on sawing and nailing at it until a man cant sleep even and her hands laying on the quilt like two of them roots dug up and tried to wash and you couldn't get them clean. I can see the fan and Dewey Dell's arm. I said if you'd just let her alone. Sawing and knocking, and keeping the air always moving so fast on her face that when you're tired you cant breathe it, and that goddamn adze going One lick less." (15)

In the book, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, he used a narrative method called the stream of consciousness. Unlike most books where the chapters are labeled by numbers or a phrase that ties in with what the chapter is about, the chapters are labeled with a character's name and their point of view. The author used this method to help the readers understand the characters and the story by getting inside the mind of each character; see what the characters are thinking and feeling as the story unfolds. Each character has his or her own personality and thinking process. Take Jewel for example. His personality and thoughts are set off from everyone else, including his family and neighbors. He is a very violent person and seems to be angry all the time. The excerpt above is from the chapter with Jewel's perspectives. While having anger management issues, his English is not exactly polished, for he used the word "them" wrong in a sentence: "And now them others sitting there, like buzzards".  Also, he used a run-on sentence and didn't use any commas: "Because I said If you wouldn't keep on sawing and nailing at it until a man cant sleep even and her hands laying on the quilt like two of them roots dug up and tried to wash and you couldn't get them clean".
This excerpt shows how a certain character, who is the prize son of Addie, perceives the outside world.