Jewel

By Kathy DiGiacomo, Bill Murphy, and Sarah Rand
 * [[image:Wild_Quarter_Horse.jpg width="320" height="215" link="http://www.best-horse-photos.com/images/Wild_Quarter_Horse.jpg"]]

Physical Description**
 * strong - carried Addie's coffin; wrestled with a horse
 * agile
 * pale eyes
 * Character's Involvement in the Journey**
 * Doesn't want to do it the way everyone else does
 * Just wants to get it done
 * Loved Addie - only reason he's participating
 * Alone most of the time
 * horse helps him to keep away
 * inherited Addie's rebellious attitude
 * conceived in act of rebellion; carries over to personality


 * Ulterior Motives for Embarking on the Journey**
 * Assert independence - runs off; does not want to be with his family
 * page 129-130 - sick but does not want family's help
 * sits on horse - apart from family
 * Pay respect to Addie - different way than rest of family; silent respect


 * Examination of internal and external conflicts**
 * External
 * conflicts with: (family relationship)
 * Anse - buying the horse, not accepting Anse's authority as a father, process of moving Addie
 * Darl - Darl knows that Jewel is illegitimate and continuously brings it up
 * Vernon Tull - Wanted to use his mules, but did not want any help (independent)
 * Internal
 * He believes that he is superior to the rest of the family
 * Doesn't need a higher power to help him, "...God what the hell is He for..." (Faulkner 15).


 * Analysis of relationship to the rest of the family**
 * Does not like the way the rest of the family honors the mother
 * Selfish and jealous that other people love Addie too
 * he loves Addie the most


 * Quotes**
 * Own voice
 * "It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less. One lick less and we could be quiet" (Faulkner 15).
 * Another character
 * "'It's not your horse that's dead, Jewel'... I cannot love my mother because I have no mother. Jewel's mother is a horse" (Faulkner 94, 95).


 * Extra Fun!**
 * significance of Jewel's name
 * He is Addie's "jewel"
 * does not bend to anyone else's shape
 * original shape