Boon Hoggenbeck

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Boon Hoggenbeck
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Hoggenbeck, Boon
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Boon Hogganbeck
Race: 
MixedIndianWhite
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
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Faulkner provides almost no description of Boon Hoggenbeck in this version of "The Bear." From the other texts in which he appears readers know that Boon has a Chickasaw grandmother. In "The Bear," however, the narrative emphasizes his status as a white man. As a hunter, he is grouped with De Spain, Compson and Walter Ewell, and apart from the non-white Sam Fathers and Tennie's Jim: "Major de Spain would be there and sometimes old General Compson, and Walter Ewell and Boon Hoggenbeck and Sam Fathers and Tennie’s Jim, too, because they, too, were hunters, knew the woods and what ran them" (293). (In the 6 other texts in which he appears, Boon's last name is spelled "Hogganbeck.")

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