Unnamed Other Children
Character Key Number:
2247
Display Name:
Unnamed Other Children
Sort Name:
Unnamed Other Children
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
These "other children" in "Beyond" are the ones who gave the young mother's son the scars he bears "one day when they were playing" (794). It isn't clear if this happened in a previous life, or in Beyond, but what the mother says - "they didn't know they were going to hurt him" (794) - adds to the details in the story that suggest a connection between this anonymous mother and son and Mary and Jesus in the New Testament.