r at a young age. One concern that Faulkner had of society was its racial and social places that everyone was inherently born into. He had a black caretaker named Mammy Callie that he came to see as a mother figure, and was troubled by the fact that she would always be referred to as a "nigger" and nothing more. All the great things she did for him and taught him made him realize that she was the same as him inside and out: "In other words, through Mammy Callie the child William Faulkner first encounters th
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