Plots Have I Laid
3.0 out of 5 stars 'Plots have I laid' Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2001. Sadly, with the advent of DNA and the fall of the iron curtain there is less and less mystery in history. This book is a fine example of the fog and questions which surronunded the death (or disappereance) of the russian imperial family. However, as time.
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- “Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, / By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams”: Political.
A Louisiana widow says she was stunned when a cemetery denied a burial plot for her husband, a black sheriff’s deputy — claiming it was for 'whites only.'
Karla Semien said she tried to make arrangements at Oaklin Springs Cemetery for her spouse, Allen Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Darrell Semien, after he died Sunday from cancer, news station KPLC reported.
'It was in their by-laws that the cemetery was ‘whites only,’' Karla told the outlet. 'I just kinda looked at her and she said, ‘There’s no coloreds allowed.’'
Darrell’s daughter, Shayla, said the woman at the cemetery showed them a contract, which outlined 'the right of burial of the remains of white human beings.'
Deputy Darrell Semien (Allen Parish Sheriff's Facebook) (Allen Parish Sheriff's Facebook)
'She had this paperwork in her hand that she said was drawn up 70-plus years ago,' Shayla told news station KATC.
'If we really wanted to have him buried here, we would have to get board approval because he was a colored man.'
His family said they were shocked not only that the discriminatory rule was part of the cemetery’s contract, but also by how the woman handled the situation.
'[She said] just blatantly, with no remorse, ‘I can’t sell you a plot for your husband,’' another one of Darrell’s daughters, Kimberly Curly, told the news station.
'Everybody dies. They bleed the same. You die. You’re the same color. Death has no color, so why should he be refused?' she added.
His widow said she had only gone to the cemetery per her husband’s wishes since he wanted to be laid to rest close to home.
'And to be told this is like we were nothing. He was nothing? He put his life on the line for them,' Karla said.
Creig Vizena, president of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery Association, said he was 'very ashamed' to learn of the racist practice, which has been in the contract since the 1950s, when the burial place opened.
'I promise you, it will be fixed,' Vizena told KATC.
He said he takes 'full responsibility' for not previously reading the contract.
'It never came up. I take full responsibility for that. I’ve been the president of this board for several years now,' he said.
The cemetery said it fired the employee who turned away the deputy’s family, KATC reported.
The Semien family said they’ve been offered a plot, but they will be burying Darrell elsewhere.
'My dad wasn’t any man, he was a phenomenal man,' Shalya told KATC. 'He was a police officer in this same community for 15 years. He was denied a place to lay because of the color of his skin.'
Addie Bundren, the wife ofAnse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor southern family, is veryill, and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, puts allof his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds rightin front of Addie’s bedroom window. Although Addie’s health is failingrapidly, two of her other sons, Darl and Jewel, leave town to makea delivery for the Bundrens’ neighbor, Vernon Tull, whose wife andtwo daughters have been tending to Addie. Shortly after Darl andJewel leave, Addie dies. The youngest Bundren child, Vardaman, associateshis mother’s death with that of a fish he caught and cleaned earlierthat day. With some help, Cash completes the coffin just beforedawn. Vardaman is troubled by the fact that his mother is nailedshut inside a box, and while the others sleep, he bores holes inthe lid, two of which go through his mother’s face. Addie and Anse’sdaughter, Dewey Dell, whose recent sexual liaisons with a localfarmhand named Lafe have left her pregnant, is so overwhelmed byanxiety over her condition that she barely mourns her mother’s death.A funeral service is held on the following day, where the womensing songs inside the Bundren house while the men stand outsideon the porch talking to each other.
Darl, who narrates much of this first section, returnswith Jewel a few days later, and the presence of buzzards over theirhouse lets them know their mother is dead. On seeing this sign,Darl sardonically reassures Jewel, who is widely perceived as ungratefuland uncaring, that he can be sure his beloved horse is not dead.Addie has made Anse promise that she will be buried in the townof Jefferson, and though this request is a far more complicatedproposition than burying her at home, Anse’s sense of obligation,combined with his desire to buy a set of false teeth, compels himto fulfill Addie’s dying wish. Cash, who has broken his leg on ajob site, helps the family lift the unbalanced coffin, but it isJewel who ends up manhandling it, almost single-handedly, into thewagon. Jewel refuses, however, to actually come in the wagon, andfollows the rest of the family riding on his horse, which he boughtwhen he was young by secretly working nights on a neighbor’s land.
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On the first night of their journey, the Bundrens stayat the home of a generous local family, who regards the Bundrens’mission with skepticism. Due to severe flooding, the main bridgesleading over the local river have been flooded or washed away, andthe Bundrens are forced to turn around and attempt a river-crossingover a makeshift ford. When a stray log upsets the wagon, the coffinis knocked out, Cash’s broken leg is reinjured, and the team ofmules drowns. Vernon Tull sees the wreck, and helps Jewel rescuethe coffin and the wagon from the river. Together, the family membersand Tull search the riverbed for Cash’s tools.
Cora, Tull’s wife, remembers Addie’s unchristian inclinationto respect her son Jewel more than God. Addie herself, speakingeither from her coffin or in a leap back in time to her deathbed,recalls events from her life: her loveless marriage to Anse; heraffair with the local minister, Whitfield, which led to Jewel’sconception; and the birth of her various children. Whitfield recallstraveling to the Bundrens’ house to confess the affair to Anse,and his eventual decision not to say anything after all.
A horse doctor sets Cash’s broken leg, while Cash faintsfrom the pain without ever complaining. Anse is able to purchasea new team of mules by mortgaging his farm equipment, using moneythat he was saving for his false teeth and money that Cash was savingfor a new gramophone, and trading in Jewel’s horse. The family continueson its way. In the town of Mottson, residents react with horror tothe stench coming from the Bundren wagon. While the family is intown, Dewey Dell tries to buy a drug that will abort her unwanted pregnancy,but the pharmacist refuses to sell it to her, and advises marriageinstead. With cement the family has purchased in town, Darl createsa makeshift cast for Cash’s broken leg, which fits poorly and onlyincreases Cash’s pain. The Bundrens then spend the night at a localfarm owned by a man named Gillespie. Darl, who has been skepticalof their mission for some time, burns down the Gillespie barn withthe intention of incinerating the coffin and Addie’s rotting corpse.Jewel rescues the animals in the barn, then risks his life to dragout Addie’s coffin. Darl lies on his mother’s coffin and cries.
Plots Have I Laid
The next day, the Bundrens arrive in Jefferson and buryAddie. Rather than face a lawsuit for Darl’s criminal barn burning,the Bundrens claim that Darl is insane, and give him to a pair ofmen who commit him to a Jackson mental institution. Dewey Dell tries againto buy an abortion drug at the local pharmacy, where a boy workingbehind the counter claims to be a doctor and tricks her into exchangingsexual services for what she soon realizes is not an actual abortiondrug. The following morning, the children are greeted by their father,who sports a new set of false teeth and, with a mixture of shameand pride, introduces them to his new bride, a local woman he meetswhile borrowing shovels with which to bury Addie.