1. By Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
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All The King's Men
By Robert Penn Warren ( )

2. AP English HW: Read Ch. 1 of ATKM by Friday Notes on ATKM
Huey Long video
Journal entry

3. Journal Response The end justifies the means.
Agree or disagree? Reasons?

4. Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946

5. Jack Burden’s moral education

6. Willie Stark Jack’s employer
Some link him with Huey Long, governor of Louisiana from

7. Huey Long Former governor of Louisiana His slogan “Every man a king.”
Nicknamed “Kingfish”
Candidate for President in 1935, but was shot

8. Although Warren drew from many sources, there are similarities between Willie Stark and Huey Long but. . .

9. Look at the novel as the story of the growth of Jack Burden rather than a biography of Huey Long.

10. All The King’s Men
What is the allusion?

11. Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

12. Humpty Dumpty
All the king’s horses
and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty
together again

13. The Fall
Governing metaphor of the novel.

14. All The King’s Men
Each major character experiences some kind of fall.

15. Original sin
Taints all the characters.

16. All The King’s Men
All characters are also capable of redemption.

17. All The King’s Men End note
Jack began as a minor character, but he took on a life of his own as the novel developed.