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The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text Summary & Study Guide Description
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Against the backdrop of the Civil War and its aftermath, William Faulkner chooses to address universal issues through the story of Bayard Sartoris, a white boy of privilege who grows up in a South determined to retain its traditions and lifestyle. As a child. Bayard is typically innocent, as he and Ringo, child of slave parents, play war games and look to Rosa Millard, Bayard's grandmother, for nurturing and protection. When the War comes to their own town, however, Bayard receives a significant "dose" of reality, as his home is burned and the household silver taken by Yankees, leaving Granny and Bayard to take up residence in the slave quarters and devise plans for their own survival, while Bayard's father John commands his own Confederate regiment. Attempts to migrate from the devastation and conflict, Granny, Bayard and Ringo eventually travel to Aunt Louvinia's home, only to find it destroyed, along...
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