Go Down, Moses And The Bear

“…seeks to reconnect a work with the time period in which it was produced and identify it with the culture and political movements of the time.” (Purdue OWL) As a little boy, William spent most days hunting, fishing, listen to old men tell war stories, perusing the ideas of what I man should do or to how a man should become. Yet on the other hand, William was very efficient in school. He was a head of the students within his age group, however; the further he past his own, he became a quitter child then most, leaving him to become isolated which caused his studies to be hurt and not finishing school. Once William was around 17 years of age, he came to become more interested in literature thanks to a man name Philp Stone, but it was not until his thirties that he became successful
It wasn’t till fifteen years later in 1942, that Faulkner wrote a book filled with short stories with a famous story to be known as the best short story within the twentieth century. "The Bear" appeared in its fullest form as a chapter in Go Down, Moses. “The Bear”, is a simply yet complex story to wrap your head around told from Ike's, Isaac McCaslin, perspective. This short story set in a time frame shortly after the Civil War, during an annual late autumn hunting expedition in the wild lands of the Tallahatchie River region in mythical Yoknapatawpha County. Every year the McCaslin’s family goes on this adventure for the hunt of the legendary Old Ben, a huge and elusive ancient bear with a mutilated paw. Once Ike was of