Go Down, Moses, 328 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2016-09-08 11:21
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
Fishing Camp|Hunting Camp in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
328
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
When I first started hunting in this bottom
Page Event Ends: 
328
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
General Compson
Major de Spain
Cass Edmonds
Ike McCaslin
Unnamed Grandfather of Will Legate
Narrative Status: 
Told
Date: 
Monday, November 1, 1880 to Tuesday, November 30, 1880
Summary: 

According to the account Ike gives the young hunters in 1940, he and the other men from Yoknapatawpha "first started hunting" in "this bottom sixty years ago," which would be 1880 (328). He is describing the "big woods" in Yoknapatawpha and the Delta as both part of the same "bottom" land.

Chronological Order: 
143.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Past, Hunting, Eating, Game
Cultural Issues:
Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Themes and Motifs:
Past›Grander than present | Story-telling›Hunting

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