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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
Greenleaf because she thinks she is better. He never gets the recongition from his father that he deserves even though he is a lot more successful than Biff. Another instance is with Gavin Stevens in which he is translating the King James version of the bible back into its original Greek. Another example that fits this theme is when Ike uncovers the ledgers. This single event fuels the major event in the whole novel, his repudiation. He argued that the land was rightfully Ike's since he had a stronger blood relation to Old Carothers. This represents his initiation into the "mystery of the woods". His display of emotion is so great. Greenleaf's kids should of been hers and hers been Mr. 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. When Ike came to him telling him that he was going to repudiate the land, Cass tried to persuade him otherwise. For that short second that shes still alive is her state of grace because then she recongizes what she has done wrong in life. In the first paragraph or so it says He was a father to none but uncle to half a county. His father is a salesman, and he is a buyer. This represents Ike in that it is a metaphysical bridge between the past and present much as Ike acts with the old generation and the new.
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