Go Down, Moses, 174 (Event)

Page Number: 
174
Order within Page: 
4
First 8-10 words of event: 
how he turned upon Sam in the truculence of a boy
Page Event Ends: 
175
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Narrative Status: 
Remembered
Date: 
Tuesday, November 4, 1879 to Sunday, November 30, 1879
Summary: 

This passage deploys verb tenses that imply it is both happening ("Sam had not moved") and being remembered by Ike at some future moment ("And he would remember that," 174). It is a mystical moment, during which Ike and Sam could be seeing either a deer with tracks "pretty near as big as a cow's" (175) that the other hunters don't see or, perhaps, the spirit of the wilderness itself. In any event, Sam salutes it with a Chickasaw word as "Olah, Chief" (174-75).

Chronological Order: 
128.00
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Keywords: 
Transcendence, Continuity, Tradition, Vision, Timelessness, Narrative_Technique:Tenses, Language:Indigenous
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