Go Down, Moses, 5 (Event)

Page Number: 
5
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike', past seventy and nearer
Page Event Ends: 
6
Era: 
Midcentury (1941-)
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Tuesday, January 1, 1850 to Thursday, December 31, 1942
Notes: 

CUT SUMMARIES: The narrator mentions an event that happened before Ike McCaslin was born. Cass Edmonds told Ike McCaslin a story that Cass witnessed before Ike was borne.
CUT KEYWORDS: the past, old time, old days

Summary: 

The novel opens with three paragraphs of "Faulknerian" prose that introduce the character of "Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike,'" and give a sense of the larger narrative's chronological scale, from 1850, when Ike's cousin Cass was born, to "now," 1942, when Ike is "past seventy and nearer eighty" (5). The passage briefly mentions Ike's birth "sixteen years" after Cass, his marriage, and his moral objections to ownership (6).

Chronological Order: 
35.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
widower, Indian patent, slaves, property, bungalow, chancery, mortmain possession, willed, old times, Aesthetic:Lack_of_Punctuation

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