Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Mon, 2015-03-30 07:16
In "The Bear" and Go Down, Moses stands a "big gum tree" beside this "little bayou whose black still water crept without motion out of a cane-brake, across a small clearing and into the cane again" (285, 191). The spot is some distance beyond the log where The Bear's footprint was first seen, and it serves as a demarcation point between two parts of the wilderness: the hunting grounds that the boy|Ike McCaslin already knows and the "new and alien country" (289, 196) that lies beyond, where he will see the bear.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Mon, 2015-03-30 06:59
The unnamed boy (in "The Bear") and Ike McCaslin (in Go Down, Moses) both see the "crooked print" of "the enormous warped two-toed foot" that belongs to Old Ben at this spot (284, 197): beside a "rotted overturned log" in the woods some distance from the main hunting grounds.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Mon, 2015-03-30 05:58
This is the spot beside a trail in the wilderness where the boy and Sam Fathers wait to encounter the bear; when the fyce actually bays the bear against "the trunk of a tree," the boy has to rush in and save the little dog (292).
