Unnamed First Indian

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2015-05-03 11:37
Text: 
"The Bear"
Character Key: 
Unnamed First Aboriginal
Display Name: 
Unnamed First Indian
Sort Name: 
Unnamed First Indian
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indeterminable
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
Bayou in "Lion"|"The Bear"|Go Down, Moses in "The Bear" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Lion"
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

Faulkner creates a prehistoric context for the story by referring to "the first ancestor of Sam Fathers' Chickasaw predecessors," the first human being who saw the Big Woods (285). That the man hunts with a "club or stone ax or bone arrow" seems to locate that moment hundreds if not thousands of years in the past.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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