Many mothers, regardless of age or circumstances, share sympathetic life ideals. They all share the common goal of raising their children healthy; they also want to create an environment of love, nurturing and support for their children. A mother's effort to instill good values ​​in her children is perpetual; they remain optimistic and hope that their children will eventually become successful. However, some women were not fit to become mothers. So, 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 narrative with alternating perspectives. In doing so, Faulkner adds authenticity and the ability to identify (for some) with both characters Addie Bundren and Cora Tull. The first-person narrative is an important literary technique because it allows the reader to experience the opposing points of view of Addie and Cora; they are both mothers who stand in each other's way due to their diverse opinions and perspectives 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 deceased mother. However, Addie only actually communicates in the first person once in the novel, and other than the first few chapters, "she's dead, she's not dying" (Ross 305). As I Lay Dying was divided into fifty-nine sections and written in the first person with fifteen different points of view (Ross 300). Since there are fifteen different points of view, the point of view then changes between each different narrator. Each narrator has “a unique, personal interpretation and reaction to the events of the novel” (Ross 301). The tone varies from one narrator to another...... 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 Journal of Canadian Studies 36.3 (2006): 440. Academic One File. Internet. February 18, 2014. Palumbo, Donald. "The Concept of God in Faulkner's 'The 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. Internet. March 23, 2014. Pierce, Constance. “Being, Knowing, and Saying in the “Addie” Section of Faulkner As I Lay Dying.” Twentieth Century Literature 26.3 (1980): 294-305. JSTOR. Internet. March 23, 2014.Ross, Steven M. "'Voice' in narrative texts: the example of As I Die." PMLA94.2 (1979): 300-10. JSTOR. Internet. March 23, 2014. Slaughter, Carolyn N. “As I Die: The Vanishing of Vision.” American Literature 61.1 (1989): 16-30. JSTOR. Internet. February 18. 2014.