Many mothers, regardless of age or situation, share sympathetic ideals of life. They all share the common goal of raising their children healthily; they want to create an environment of love, care and support for their children too. A mother's effort to instill good values ​​in her children is perpetual; they remain optimistic and hope that their children will eventually become prosperous. However, some women were not suited to become mothers. Therefore, two different roles of a mother are depicted in As I Lay Dying written by William Faulkner. Faulkner uses the literary technique of first-person narration with alternating perspectives. In this way, Faulkner adds authenticity and relatability (for some) to the two characters Addie Bundren and Cora Tull. First-person narration serves as an important literary technique because it allows the reader to experience Addie and Cora's opposing points of view; they are both mothers who oppose each other due to their different opinions and views on motherhood, religion and life. The title of the novel - As I Lay Dying - suggests that there is a first-person speaker, which apparently suggests that it is the voice of Addie Bundren, the dead mother. However, Addie actually communicates in the first person only once in the novel, and aside from the opening few chapters, "she's dead, she's not dying" (Ross 305). As I Lay Dying was divided into fifty-nine sections and written in first-person narrative with fifteen different points of view (Ross 300). Since there are fifteen different points of view, the point of view shifts between each different narrator. Each narrator has a “unique and personal interpretation and reaction to the events of the novel” (Ross 301). The tone varies from narrator to narrator...... middle of paper...... Gault, Cinda. “The Two Addies: Motherhood and Language in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.” American Review of Canadian Studies 36.3 (2006): 440. Academic One File. Network. 18 February 2014.Palumbo, Donald Duck. “The Concept of God in Faulkner's “Light in August,” “The Sound and the Fury,” “As I Lay Dying,” and “Absalom, Absalom!”” The South Central Bulletin 39.4 (1979): 142-46. JSTOR. Network. March 23, 2014. Pierce, Costanza. “Being, Knowing, and Saying in the “Addie” Section of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.” Literature of the Twentieth Century 26.3 (1980): 294-305. JSTOR. Network. March 23, 2014. Ross, Steven M. ""Voice" in Narrative Texts: The Example of As I Lay Dying." PMLA94.2 (1979): 300-10. JSTOR. Network. March 23, 2014. Slaughter, Carolyn N. “As I Lay Dying: Demise of Vision.” American Literature 61.1 (1989): 16-30. JSTOR. Network. February 18. 2014.