They're mine!"
A character in this story delivers a monologue declaring that man was "Dispossessed of Eden. Dispossessed of Canaan, and those who dispossessed Him dispossessed Him dispossessed." This story ends with a man yelling "Don't touch a one of them! They're mine!" as he smacks the dismantled components of his gun against a gum-tree full of squirrels. In the oft-omitted fourth section of this story, its protagonist ties the downfall of the South to God's curse upon man for raping its land in a (*) stream-of-consciousness dialogue, complete with a 1600 word sentence, in which he tells his cousin Cass Edmonds that he is renouncing his claim to the family plantation. In this story, the half-Chickasaw tracker Sam Fathers suffers a fatal seizure at the exact moment that Boon Hogganbeck delivers a knife-strike to the heart of Old Ben. For 10 points, name this centerpiece of the collection Go Down, Moses, a Faulkner story in which Ike McCaslin joins the hunt for the title animal.
A character in this story delivers a monologue declaring that man was "Dispossessed of Eden.
“The Bear”