Predator

Author: Faulkner
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: In The Bear, we see a family vastly different from the Compsons, Sutpen, and Stepen families. The children of the Priest family live in warmth and receive spiritual care and guidance from their parents and grandparents, establishing a firm sense of right and wrong from a young age. The Bear is one of Faulkner's well-received " Bildungsromane." The grandson of a banker, Lucius, accompanies the driver Hogenbeck and the black servant Ned in secretly taking his grandfather's car to a distant place and staying at a brothel. Hogenbeck finds a prostitute named Cora, while Ned, to help another black servant, secretly trades the car for a horse and uses this horse to participate in a race, winning back the car. Four days later, they return home. Hogenbeck marries Cora, and the protagonist of the story, the 11-year-old Lucius, matures through these four days of adventures, experiencing both the kindness, compassion, and mutual care of people, as well as greed, cunning, depravity, and decadence. In the conflict between virtue and vice, he is tempered and grows up.