All The King's Men

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All The King's Men

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• By Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

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AP English

• HW Read Ch. 1 of ATKM by Friday
• Notes on ATKM
• Huey Long video
• Journal entry

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Journal Response

• The end justifies the means.
• Agree or disagree? Reasons?

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Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946
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Jack Burdens moral education
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Willie Stark

• Jacks employer
• Some link him with Huey Long, governor of
  Louisiana from 1928-32

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Huey Long

• Former governor of Louisiana
• His slogan Every man a king.
• Nicknamed Kingfish
• Candidate for President in 1935, but was shot

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Although Warren drew from many sources, there are
similarities between Willie Stark and Huey Long
but. . .
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Look at the novel as the story of the growth of
Jack Burden rather than a biography of Huey Long.
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All The Kings Men

• What is the allusion?

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Humpty Dumpty

• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
• Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

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Humpty Dumpty

• All the kings horses
• and all the kings men
• couldnt put Humpty
• together again

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The Fall

• Governing metaphor of the novel.

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All The Kings Men

• Each major character experiences some kind of
  fall.

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Original sin

• Taints all the characters.

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All The Kings Men

• All characters are also capable of redemption.

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All The Kings MenEnd note

• Jack began as a minor character, but he took on a
  life of his own as the novel developed.