American Author's

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1) Ike repudiated his inheritance for many reasons. The catalyst of this is Sam Fathers. After Ike's parents died he was basically taken under the advisement of Sam Fathers he built Ike's belief foundation. He taught Ike to respect the land and that nobody could own it, also that slavery was evil. From this we can see why Ike repudiated the land.

Ike saw the land as evil and tainted because of what happened on it. After he read the ledgers he could deduce that LQCM had committed incest and miscegenation. This he saw as a grave sin and that there was no chance in cleansing the land. Also, he still had the belief (which carried over from Sam Fathers) that land could not be owned since God created it for all beings therefore the land belonged to everyone. And of course there is the obviousness that generations of slaves worked and died on that plantation and the sin of bondage could not be cleansed from the land.

Ike's repudiation wasn't a trivial event, it influenced another parts of the novel. For example in the story "Go down, Moses" Samuel Beauchamp gets kicked off the plantation by Carothers Edmonds because he is caught stealing and he eventually gets killed. Aunt Mollie blames Carothers for doing this because she thinks th

6) Flannery O'Connor's good country people adheres to the paradigm which can be seen in all of her novels. The person that has sinned in this instance is Hulga, she does not believe in god rather she believes in knowledge and philosophy. When she has her glasses on she is an intellect that has a belief system that is based entirely on books and knowledge. However when her glasses are removed she is instantly transformed. This happens when Manley Pointer, the agent of grace , takes off her glasses and then she gains spirtual insight and realizes her sin.

4) The first two pages of the novel are critical since they set up the framework of the novel by giving us insight on Ike's life and the kind of person. In the first paragraph or so it says He was a father to none but uncle to half a county. This shows that he never had his own children but that he was a person that everybody liked and a good-hearted person that treated everything and everyone with respect.

2) Aunt Molly places an essential role in the novel. First of all she acts as a bridge between the black and white sides of the family. She has the respect of the white side, such as Roth because she basically raised him and she also is connected to the black side in that she is married to Lucas and partakes in his heritage.

Cass always looked out for Ike's interests. When Ike came to him telling him that he was going to repudiate the land, Cass tried to persuade him otherwise. He argued that the land was rightfully Ike's since he had a stronger blood relation to Old Carothers. If he did not care about Ike he would gladly take the land, however he understands that he is familly and is practically his father so he must look out for his interests.

His display of emotion is so great. Especially when he hits Stella and she flees from him. Then when he comes out and screams Stella you can actually sense a mixture of frustration and remorse for what he did. And one of the last scenes with Blanche right before he rapes her. He acts so sincere when listening to Blanche and then an instant he becomes angry just as if he was really experiencing it.

8) Within Asa Hawks, Hazel Motes sees his fault. Asa Hawks acts as a sort of agent of grace by making him realize that his false preaching is completely unfounded and dumb. Also Asa Hawks shows Hazel the true way to enter the state of Grace. He shows him the newspaper articles of how he blinded himself. Hazel recongizes that the only way to reach the

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Approximate Word count = 1662
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English