Go Down, Moses, 255 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2016-08-21 14:20
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
McCaslin Commissary in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
255
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
Then he was sixteen. He knew what he was
Page Event Ends: 
255
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Present: 
Ike McCaslin
Characters Mentioned: 
Cass Edmonds
Eunice
Buck McCaslin
Buddy McCaslin
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Monday, October 1, 1883 to Monday, December 31, 1883
Summary: 

One night when he was sixteen, Ike snuck into the commissary "after midnight" and began reading the ledgers to answer his questions about Eunice's death. Somehow he already "knew what he was going to find" (255) - the narrative does not explain how.

Chronological Order: 
161.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Secrecy, Reading, Midnight, Knowledge, Mystery
Actions:
Mental›Curiosity | Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics:
Narrative›Anticipation

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