The selling and buying of the land should not be considered sins but instead the pursuit of happiness and an improved lifestyle. .
Lucius" twin sons, Theophilus "Uncle Buck" and Amodeus "Uncle Buddy" then inherited the land, in 1837. They kept the plantation running, and the sin still going, for Isaac "Ike" McCaslin to inherit when he turns twenty-one. They died before he turned twenty-one so the land was then taken over by Carothers "Cass" Edmonds until Ike turns twenty-one. .
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 it would take to set at least some of His lowly people free" (Faulkner, 248) If he were to kill this bear in a certain way everything Faulkner considers sin, on the plantation, will be ended. This is why I believe we choose our own destiny. He had his life already dealt out for him but he chose his own road to travel to find pleasure.
Even before anything else happens is this dream a success or failure? Does the fact that he gives up all the possessions people spend their whole lives for, without even earning it, a failure? If you consider the American Dream wealth, property, and status, well then he failed.
