Lucius Quintos Carothers McCaslin, born in Carolina in 1772, migrated to Mississippi, in 1807, to search for his dream of becoming wealthy with lots of property. He bought his plantation from Ikkemotubbe, an Indian Chief. This selling of the land is what Faulkner considers the original sin of the land. This is what starts all the slavery and ownership of land, which Faulkner believes, should

Did he truly fail though? Maybe the dream wasn’t the completing of the task but instead the chase. I said before that happiness is how you can truly figure out your dream. Wasn’t Ike most happy while he was hunting? The doing away with the sin I believe wasn’t destiny but a reward instead. The chase and the hunting are what made Ike so happy for so many years. He became an expert hunter and a wiser person while living in his dream. Not many people know their dreams because they just follow in others footsteps living in other people’s dreams. Ike knew he didn’t want to own that land because he knew he wouldn’t be happy there. No matter what temptations or appeals he had to take over the plantation he knew in his own mind he wouldn’t be happy. Even after failing to follow all the way through with his plan he still would not fall back onto the fact he still could be wealthy. Many people would have shrugged off the fact they failed and lived a rich and easy life on the land. He chose not to because of what he believed would make him happiest.

Ike was Lucius’ grandson, the son of Uncle Buck and Sophonsiba, born in 1867. Cass who was his second cousin raised him. As a young boy he was taught how to hunt by Sam Fathers, Ikkemotubbe’s son. With Sam as Ike’s teacher of the woods, Ike became a very skillful woodsman and fell deeply in love with the wilderness. Through the years of hunting he finally figured out his dream and what he wanted to do with his life.

Ike could inherit the plantation and keep the dream once started by his grandfather alive. Instead he finds his own dream, from within, to chase after. He chooses to hunt after a huge mystical bear called, Old Bear, who seems invincible to any normal hunter. Ike had the wealth and property given to him on a silver platter but he chose to throw it all away for his own dream. He knew that he had a destiny to kill this bear to make everything perfect in his own eyes. “…maybe he saw already in Grandfather the seed progenitive of the three generations He saw

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