![]() ![]() ![]() The chart below represents the McCaslin family as it is outlined in this introductory:Īfter finishing "Was" readers have a larger, though not necessarily a clearer understanding of the family. It mentions that "some of the descendants" of the slaves of Ike's unnamed "father" are also named McCaslin, but there is no suggestion that these people are members of the McCaslin family, however extended (everywhere else in the novel the descendants of McCaslin slaves are all named Beauchamp). Although it notes that the title to the McCaslin land was acquired from the "Indians," it makes no mention of the McCaslin (Ike's grandfather) who acquired it. ![]() Its first four words - "Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike'" - apparently identify the novel's central character (after this opening, Ike is not mentioned again until the novel's second chapter). Go Down, Moses begins with a 3 paragraph introduction, set off from the rest of the story "Was" by being written as one sentence in Faulkner's high style. ![]()
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