Go Down, Moses, 312 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2016-08-12 13:22
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
Sam Fathers' Gravesite in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
312
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
He didn't disturb it. He didn't even look for
Page Event Ends: 
313
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Ike McCaslin
Characters Mentioned: 
Major de Spain
Cass Edmonds
Sam Fathers
Boon Hogganbeck
Narrative Status: 
Narrated+Consciousness
Date: 
Wednesday, June 2, 1886 to Wednesday, June 30, 1886
Summary: 

At Sam's gravesite, Ike leaves the gifts he has brought. In that place where Sam and Lion and one of Old Ben's paws are buried together, he feels sure "there was no death" (312).

Chronological Order: 
212.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Death, Timelessness, Wholeness, Gifts
Environment:
Place›Grave
Themes and Motifs:
Animals›Snake | Death›Afterlife | Memory›Remembering | Time›Timelessness
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Biblical›Snake | Diction›Native American languages | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics

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