"The Old People", 210 (Event)
Text:
Page Number:
210
Order within Page:
2
First 8-10 words of event:
"Wait?" I said. "What for? Don't you hear the horn?"
Page Event Ends:
210
Era:
Turn of the Century (1890-1913)
Characters Present:
Narrative Status:
Remembered
Date:
Wednesday, November 2, 1904 to Wednesday, November 30, 1904
Summary:
This passage deploys verb tenses that imply it is both happening (Sam "had not moved") and being remembered by the boy at some future moment ("And I remember how," 210). It is a mystical moment, during which the old Indian and the white boy could be seeing either a deer with tracks "pretty near as big as a cow's" (211) 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," 210).
Chronological Order:
30.10
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