Jewel is repeatedly characterized by his affinity for these creatures. The emotion is an incommunicable one and ill-understood by those around him. This is yet another case of perspective. Peabody feels as though Jewel treats his mother as nothing but a pack-horse — the irony, of course, is that Jewel intensely loves both beings. Sounds like a horse, right? Parents Home Homeschool College Resources.
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LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in As I Lay Dying , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The Bundrens arrive at their next stop on the way to Jefferson, a farm owned by a man called Gillepsie. Upon arrival, Darl asks Jewel "Whose son are you?
Your mother was a horse , but who was your father Jewel? Here, Darl passive-aggressively reveals his awareness of Jewel's identity as Addie's bastard son, sadistically asking Jewel who is father is. Darl's verbal attack on Jewel, who is highly physical, naturally leaves Jewel infuriated. This reaction only leads Darl to keep provoking his brother, such that we just continue to watch their rivalry grow more tense.
Active Themes. Family, Birth, and Death. Cash begins to sweat because of his cemented leg and the temperature outside, and politely tells his family members that his leg feels hot. The Bundrens decide to pour water on Cash's leg, after which he repeatedly assures them, "I'm obliged. It feels fine. Cash's predilection for self-sacrifice is no longer Christ-like but ridiculous to the point of being pathological, as he silently endures the pain of a swollen, broken leg covered in cement.
Addie considered having children with Anse both punishment and preparation for death as opposed to something from which to derive pleasure and love. Nevertheless, as a mother, Addie knew that she had to treat all of her children equally, and hated herself and Jewel in a way for forcing her to deceive the others into thinking she loved them all equally when love was a word she could not even comprehend. However, he would do nearly anything for her; Jewel would even break into a burning barn to rescue her coffin.
However, when Anse asks Jewel to give up the horse in order to buy another team to continue on the way to Jefferson to bury Addie, Jewel must then decide between the two loves of his life: his horse and his mother.
If Jewel chooses his mother, she could make it to Jefferson, but he would lose the living animal for which he had cared so deeply. The entire journey to Jefferson would have been pointless if he refused to relinquish his horse, a disrespect Jewel does not wish to give his mother. Despite his immediate reaction to run away to avoid giving up his horse, Jewel learns a new lesson in giving the horse to Snopes: to consider all the consequences of his actions before they are made.
He realizes that his natural inclination to run away contradicted his overall desire to do the best for his mother. At the same time, his demand to put the coffin in the wagon without a balance led to its falling in the river, a complete disrespect of his mother. Thus he begins to question all his reactions to situations. Instead of punching the man as he normally would, Jewel goes as far as to apologize for his outburst. With the two he held most dear gone, Jewel realizes that his hostility has not gained him anything, although the losses themselves may not necessarily have been preventable.
Because Jewel is unable to express his love for his mother, he substitutes all of his love for the horse. Thus, later we get from Darl the accusation that Jewel's mother is a horse. We eventually learn that Jewel is the "cross" that Addie bears and that he is to be her salvation. But Jewel is never able to act upon the level of either conscious or unconscious thought; his is a world of words and emotions translated into actions without the intercession of thoughts.
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