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"A Justice", 354 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Movement›Steamboat | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
"A Justice", 355 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Physical›Jumping | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Killing of animals
"A Justice", 358 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
"A Justice", 359 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
"A Justice", 359 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building | Physical›Jumping
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
"A Justice", 359 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Food | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Curious | Movement›Surrey | Physical›Cooking
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person
"A Name for the City", 208 (Event)
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
"A Point of Law", 215 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Actions: Moral›Deception | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Transporting
"A Point of Law", 217 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Hiding | Work›Law enforcement
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
"A Rose for Emily", 123 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Pity | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Death | Objects›Corpse | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative
"Barn Burning", 13 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Washing clothes | Verbal›Begging | Verbal›Command | Work›Chopping wood
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Objects›Coffee | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›France | Allusion, Literary›Gulliver's Travels
"Barn Burning", 9 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Expensive | Race›Etiquette
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›First-person | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Centaur in Brass", 161 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Brass
"Centaur in Brass", 162 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Brass
"Centaur in Brass", 162 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Disguise
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass
Relationships: Marital›Adultery
"Centaur in Brass", 163 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›April
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Vengeance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Disguise
Themes and Motifs: Objects›knife
Relationships: Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur
"Death Drag", 185 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›January
Actions: Bodily›Limping | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Suit | Entertainment›Barnstorming
"Dry September", 179 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Probing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules
"Dry September", 179 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Moon
Actions: Bodily›Choking | Movement›Car | Movement›Limping | Physical›Jumping
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Dry September", 179 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Movement›Car | Movement›Limping | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
"Dry September", 180 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Trembling | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Fever
"Elly", 219 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Undressing
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Objects›Clock
"Knight's Gambit", 185 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Legal›Locking up | Physical›Protection
"Knight's Gambit", 212 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Driving | Physical›Waiting
"Knight's Gambit", 228 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting | Play›Betting | Play›Chess | Verbal›Explaining
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Knight's Gambit", 239 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
"Lion", 193 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
"Lion", 194 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
"Lion", 194 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion
"Lion", 194 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Crossing | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Death›Animal Dog | Objects›Boat
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
"Lion", 195 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Hunting›Injury | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Appearance›Scruffiness | Body›Blood
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Lion", 195 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Values›Courage | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
"Lion", 199 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Landmark | Natural›Woods | Weather›Sun
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Fury | Mental›Realization | Physical›Hammering | Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Squirrel | Objects›Gun | Past›Recent past | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 369 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Pistol
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 370 (Event)
Environment: Place›Seedy parts of town
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | Mass Media›Magazines | Mass Media›Movies
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Vestal
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 371 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Sexuality›Appearance of
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 373 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Cold | Weather›Mild | Weather›Rain
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Psychological›Paranoia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 374 (Event)
Environment: Place›Lonelier parts of town
Actions: Movement›Return | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 374 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Woods | Place›Lonelier parts of town
Actions: Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Sexuality›Appearance of | Sexuality›Puberty
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 374 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Time›Long passage of time
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 375 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Intrusion | Work›Painting
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 376 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Freeing | Verbal›Promising
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Chivalry | Psychological›Madness
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 376 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Freeing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Morals›Chivalry | Objects›Eyeglasses
Relationships: Romantic›Fiance
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 376 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Finding | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 378 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Values›Faithfulness
Relationships: Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 378 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Communication›Newspaper columns and notices | Communication›Writing | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Christ | Allusion, Biblical›Mary
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 379 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Healing | Bodily›Insomnia | Bodily›Pregnancy | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Recovery | Physical›Dreaming
Themes and Motifs: Futility›When will it stop | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Texts›Letters
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Environment: Place›Gallows
Actions: Physical›Hanging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
"Monk", 44 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Orphan
"Monk", 44 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Moral›Gravedigging | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Digging | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
"Monk", 48 (Event)
Environment: Place›Classroom
Actions: Physical›Reading
"Monk", 55 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Reading
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Mule in the Yard", 253 (Event)
Environment: Place›Crime scene | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›April
Actions: Physical›Finding | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge
"Mule in the Yard", 254 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Actions: Physical›Chase | Physical›Running | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Mule in the Yard", 255 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Physical›Chase | Physical›Running | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Mule in the Yard", 256 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Ammonia | Olfactory›Sweat
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Mule in the Yard", 257 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Fog
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Mule in the Yard", 257 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Physical›Burning
"Mule in the Yard", 257 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Public›Store
Actions: Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol
"Mule in the Yard", 260 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Scamming | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
"Mule in the Yard", 262 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Gallic
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 669 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 670 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Moral›Deception | Physical›Digging | Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dulcimer | Objects›Heirloom | Objects›Silver
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 677 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Outhouse
Actions: Physical›Searching | Verbal›Shouting
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 679 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Summer house
Actions: Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 687 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Digging
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 695 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Reading
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek", 695 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Library
Actions: Physical›Curtsy
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
"Race at Morning", 299 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
"Race at Morning", 299 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Non-human | Movement›Horse | Physical›Pursuit
"Race at Morning", 301 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Sentience
"Race at Morning", 305 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Sentience | Home›Homebound
"Red Leaves", 321 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Slipper
"Red Leaves", 336 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Physical›Pursuit
"Red Leaves", 337 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Swamp
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs
"Red Leaves", 338 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Swamp | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Singing | Physical›Apprehending
"Shall Not Perish", 101 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Grief | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity
"Shall Not Perish", 102 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Friday | Time of Year›July
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Communication›Newspaper columns and notices | Emotional›Grief | Movement›Truck | Physical›Walking | Work›Churning butter
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
"Shall Not Perish", 103 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Listening | Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: War›World War II
"Shall Not Perish", 104 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Physical›Bathing
"Shall Not Perish", 104 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Clothes›Sunday shoes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Satchel
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
"Shall Not Perish", 106 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Physical›Bathing | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Sunday shoes
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Satchel | Objects›Towel
"Shall Not Perish", 106 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
"Shall Not Perish", 107 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reliability
"Shall Not Perish", 108 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Physical›Holding
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flag | Objects›Medal | Objects›Photograph | Objects›Pistol
"Shall Not Perish", 108 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›July
Actions: Physical›Holding | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Tirade
Cultural Issues: War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Satchel | Objects›Towel
"Shall Not Perish", 111 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Sunday shoes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Principle
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Neighbor
"Shall Not Perish", 111 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Hearth | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Physical›Jumping | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | War›Civil War
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Allusion, Historical›Grant, Ulysses S. | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Morgan, John Hunt | Allusion, Historical›Van Dorn, Earl | Intertextuality›Faulkner text
"Shall Not Perish", 112 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Entertainment›Movies | War›Civil War
"Shall Not Perish", 113 (Event)
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Shaking | Emotional›Embarrasment | Physical›Trembling | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | War›Civil War | War›Civil War consequences
Relationships: Familial›Patriarch
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Ah-h-h | Language›Hah
"Shingles for the Lord", 27 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Physical›Riding | Work›Farming
"Shingles for the Lord", 28 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Praying | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Religion›God
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
"Shingles for the Lord", 39 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Fire
Actions: Physical›Extinguishing fire
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injury
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
"Spotted Horses", 168 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Relationships: Marital›Abusive
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular
"Spotted Horses", 174 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Undressing
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
"Spotted Horses", 176 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Dressing
"Spotted Horses", 177 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Screaming
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
"Spotted Horses", 180 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
"That Evening Sun", 295 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
"That Evening Sun", 296 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Singing | Physical›Stalking
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"That Evening Sun", 298 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Singing | Communication›Telephone | Physical›Stalking
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"That Evening Sun", 306 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Singing | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Stalking | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Terror
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"That Evening Sun", 308 (Event)
Environment: Place›Ditch
Actions: Physical›Stalking
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling
"The Old People", 208 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Hunting›Waiting | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Mules
"The Tall Men", 54 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Walking | Physical›Building
"The Tall Men", 59 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Kissing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Government›Depression-era programs | War›Going to war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Philosophical›Individualism | Values›Family values
"There Was a Queen", 728 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Care | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Travel
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride
"There Was a Queen", 737 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood
"There Was a Queen", 740 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Blackmail | Physical›Protection
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
"Tomorrow", 100 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Sewing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Handmade | Clothes›Rural poverty | Politics›Taxes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Naming›Named for historical figure
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" | Allusion, Historical›Longstreet, James | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Tomorrow", 104 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Character›Pride
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Desertion
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
"Tomorrow", 105 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Feeding | Domestic›Nursing | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Law›Custody | Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion
Relationships: Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
"Tomorrow", 106 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Tomorrow", 93 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Legal›Deliberating | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Hill country | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Named for historical figure | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Marital›Bigamy
"Two Soldiers", 86 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Feeding | Physical›Kissing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Character›Pride | Objects›Bible
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
"Two Soldiers", 95 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Love | Physical›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Mass Media›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Determinism›Lack of choice | Time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
Absalom, Absalom!, 100 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter
Relationships: Romantic›Fiance
Absalom, Absalom!, 101 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Reading
Themes and Motifs: Body›Voice | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Absalom, Absalom!, 117 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Naming | Objects›Photograph | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Seed | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 120 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Morals›Faith | Morals›Honor | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 121 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Burial | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Rebel yell | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 123 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Domestic›Sewing | Hunting | Physical›Waiting | Work›Chopping wood | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Civil War | War›Deprivation | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 123 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Burial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 136 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Requesting | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 150 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 150 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 159 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Orphan
Absalom, Absalom!, 159 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Inexperience | Time›Permanence
Relationships: Familial›Orphan
Aesthetics: Language›French
Absalom, Absalom!, 161 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Race›Colorism | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Orphan
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 161 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Communication›Without words | Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Mirror
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Absalom, Absalom!, 164 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Ambiguity | Physical›Dancing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Gambling
Absalom, Absalom!, 177 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Escape from confinement
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 177 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Absalom, Absalom!, 177 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Absalom, Absalom!, 178 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Race | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Absalom, Absalom!, 180 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Travel
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›James River, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical›Jamestown, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical›Old Bailey
Absalom, Absalom!, 181 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Drinking | Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 193 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 194 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 197 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering | Story-telling
Absalom, Absalom!, 200 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Plantation
Actions: Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Absalom, Absalom!, 203 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse
Absalom, Absalom!, 206 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Capture | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Health and Illness›Injury | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›Racialism
Absalom, Absalom!, 207 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Physical›Capture | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›French
Absalom, Absalom!, 215 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Verbal›Invitation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Conviction
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Absalom, Absalom!, 215 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Absalom, Absalom!, 216 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Physical›Travel | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Familial
Absalom, Absalom!, 229 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Physical›Delivering
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse
Absalom, Absalom!, 229 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Finding | Physical›Pursuit
Absalom, Absalom!, 230 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Physical›Screaming | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Apotheosis | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Faith
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 244 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Ethnicity›Language barrier
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter
Aesthetics: Language | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 262 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›June
Actions: Physical›Dancing
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Art›Music | Home›Belonging | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 263 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Trousseau
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Engagement
Absalom, Absalom!, 266 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Physical›Touching
Themes and Motifs: Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 278 (Event)
Actions: Military›Retreat | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 281 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 286 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 298 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 299 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Physical›Burning | Verbal›Howling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fire
Absalom, Absalom!, 43 (Event)
Environment: Public›Church
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Physical›Throwing | Violent
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Relationships: Marital | Social›Conflict
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 64 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Speech
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Absalom, Absalom!, 71 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Absalom, Absalom!, 77 (Event)
Actions: Hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Riding
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Projection
Absalom, Absalom!, 77 (Event)
Actions: Hunting | Physical›Riding | Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Music | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Absalom, Absalom!, 82 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse
Absalom, Absalom!, 83 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Love | Movement›Horse | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Absalom, Absalom!, 83 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Friendship | Romantic›Courtship
Absalom, Absalom!, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Commodity | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fatality
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Absalom, Absalom!, 95 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Absalom, Absalom!, 96 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Trust | Morals›Faith | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 97 (Event)
Actions: Military›Enlistment | Movement›Hiding | Movement›Horse | Physical›Dancing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Going to war
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Priapus | Figures of Speech›Sacrifice | Narrative›Conjectural narration
As I Lay Dying, 103 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Gender›Reproduction | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
As I Lay Dying, 105 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Opinion | Death›Dying wish | Death›Respect | Morals›Honor | Morals›Hypocrisy | Psychological›Madness | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
As I Lay Dying, 114 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Meddling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death›Dying wish | Philosophical›Human nature | Story-telling›Retelling
As I Lay Dying, 117 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
As I Lay Dying, 121 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
As I Lay Dying, 15 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Physical›Waiting | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Religion›Challenge
Themes and Motifs: Death
As I Lay Dying, 49 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Sawing | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Deathbed
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
As I Lay Dying, 52 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Rain
Actions: Physical›Repair | Verbal›Announcing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Death | Supernatural›Insight
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 65 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Sympathy | Physical›Confining
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin
As I Lay Dying, 65 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Physical›Confining | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial
As I Lay Dying, 66 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing
Actions: Physical›Confining | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
As I Lay Dying, 73 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Physical›Freeing | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Religion›Challenge | Religion›Divine judgment
Relationships: Familial›Childlessness
As I Lay Dying, 73 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Sympathy | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse
As I Lay Dying, 86 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Rain
Actions: Physical›Repair | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
As I Lay Dying, 96 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Cursing | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Precision
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments
As I Lay Dying, 97 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Impatience | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Cautious | Death›Coffin
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
As I Lay Dying, 98 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Style›Cubism
Flags in the Dust, 101 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Communication›Writing | Physical›Burning | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deaf
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 13 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Ambush | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: War›Capture | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Coffee
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 139 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Water | Natural›Creek | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Car maintenance
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bats
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 146 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 176 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Travel
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Education›Oxford | Education›Rhodes Scholar | Religion›Episcopal
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Romantic›Sexual
Flags in the Dust, 187 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Playing music | Physical›Kissing | Play›Tennis
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Sports | Gender›Men vs women | Mass Media›Magazines
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Ugliness | Objects›Car | Objects›Gun | Objects›Tea
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›South America | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 19 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Dancing
Aesthetics: Diction›Imitation | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 197 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Physical›Dancing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Entertainment›Recital | Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Separate spaces
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Piano | Texts›Love letter
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Parents-children | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Booth, William | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 232 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Holly Springs, Mississippi | Diction›Rural vernacular
Flags in the Dust, 235 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Bodily›Staring | Emotional›Fear | Physical›Stalking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Objects›Train
Flags in the Dust, 245 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Reading | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Growth | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being on time / punctuality
Flags in the Dust, 263 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Aesthetics: Language›Misspelling
Flags in the Dust, 287 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Physical›Gardening
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers Roses | Time›Future
Flags in the Dust, 299 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Hunting | Physical›Cuddling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Flags in the Dust, 299 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Kissing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Flags in the Dust, 310 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Divorce | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Nickname | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Reno, Nevada | Allusion, Mythical›Lethe | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 317 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Shopping | Physical›Tripping | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable | Body›Eyes
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 37 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Silver
Flags in the Dust, 37 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Moon | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Locust | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Food preparation | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Train | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Health and Illness›Deaf | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Animals›Fox | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Flags in the Dust, 50 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Gender›War | War›Civil War
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Flags in the Dust, 51 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Physical›Eating | Work›Gardening
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness | Community›Wedding | Naming›Child's name
Flags in the Dust, 52 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Callousness | Physical›Mimicking | Verbal›Command | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Flags in the Dust, 61 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Tirade
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Equal rights | Sexuality›Interracial | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Vardaman, James K. | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 90 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Physical›Crawling
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›In childbirth | Objects›Skull | Past›Family history
Go Down, Moses, 10 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Race
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Past›Old days
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 103 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Migration›North
Relationships: Familial›Geneology
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bumble-bee | Body›Teeth | Objects›Fan | Past›Old days
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Go Down, Moses, 113 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Eating
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Go Down, Moses, 119 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Missing | Animals›Mules
Go Down, Moses, 120 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Finding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Apron
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Go Down, Moses, 14 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 15 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Evasion | Physical›Pursuit | Play›Betting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Go Down, Moses, 17 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Physical›Escape from confinement | Play›Betting | Verbal›Planning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
Go Down, Moses, 18 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Frustration | Physical›Evasion | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fox-horn
Go Down, Moses, 18 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Objects›Fox-horn
Go Down, Moses, 19 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Running | Verbal›Ordering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses
Go Down, Moses, 20 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Escaping | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
Go Down, Moses, 21 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
Go Down, Moses, 22 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Physical›Eating | Verbal›Storytelling
Go Down, Moses, 22 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Physical›Capture | Play›Betting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery
Go Down, Moses, 25 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Physical›Escaping | Physical›Evasion | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Go Down, Moses, 30 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Physical›Chase | Physical›Cooking | Physical›Race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Go Down, Moses, 37 (Event)
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Store clothes
Go Down, Moses, 37 (Event)
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Physical›Digging | Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still
Relationships: Ancestral›Indian
Go Down, Moses, 38 (Event)
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Moral›Scheming | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Government›Inheritance | Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Justice | Philosophical›Luck
Relationships: Familial›Patriarch | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Go Down, Moses, 41 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Dirt / Earth
Actions: Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming
Go Down, Moses, 45 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Burial
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Go Down, Moses, 51 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds
Go Down, Moses, 51 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Physical›Panting | Verbal›Dialogue | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Competition | Familial›Extended family
Go Down, Moses, 6 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Fox hunting | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Past›Old days
Relationships: Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 63 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Actions: Physical›Searching | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still
Go Down, Moses, 77 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Digging | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Physical›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Go Down, Moses, 83 (Event)
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Ownership | Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Go Down, Moses, 85 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Go Down, Moses, 9 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Pony | Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Requiem for a Nun, 121 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Recovery | Physical›Travel
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it | Texts›Novel
Requiem for a Nun, 32 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Swamp
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
The Reivers , 10 (Event)
Environment: Public›Alley
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Running
The Reivers , 112 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Running | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
The Reivers , 121 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grave | Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
Actions: Physical›Race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 137 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Saloon | Public›Sidewalk | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Moral›Stealing | Movement›Walking | Physical›Running | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Laws | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Etiquette | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Past›Innocence
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 14 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Jumping | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Violence›Shooting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 141 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Murmur | Olfactory›Urine | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Worry | Movement›Train | Physical›Loading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Husbandry | Progress›Infrastructure | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Values›Virtue
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 168 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Abuse of office | Law›Corruption | Law›Sheriff | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Law
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hand grip
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 184 (Event)
Environment: Place›Medical practice
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Physical›Intrusion | Verbal›Rumor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
The Reivers , 208 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Bathing | Verbal›Revealing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Clothes›Socks | Entertainment›Horse race
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›All caps
The Reivers , 215 (Event)
Environment: Place›Plantation | Public›Road
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Excitement | Moral›Scheming | Moral›Secret | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Driving
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton | Clothes›Socks | Crime›Theft | Economy›Gambling | Entertainment›Horse race | Race›Solidarity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Race horse | Objects›Gold tooth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 228 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
The Reivers , 239 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Hungering | Emotional›Homesickness | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Mule | Physical›Driving
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry | Education›Informal | Labor›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Animals›Rabbit
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
The Reivers , 240 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Evening | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Physical›Bathing | Physical›Eating | Physical›Praying
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry | Clothes›Socks | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Religion›African American
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Toothpick
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 244 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness | Physical›Praying
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Values›Determination
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
The Reivers , 247 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Domestic›Washing | Legal›Locking up | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Clothes›Dirty | Entertainment›Horse race | Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Abuse of office
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Reivers , 276 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Mule | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Gold tooth
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Reivers , 276 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Mule | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Restraining | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth | Recurring Tropes›Recovery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Reivers , 277 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Praying
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Labor›Racialized
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs
The Reivers , 3 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Physical›Jumping | Physical›Kicking | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Baseball
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Personification | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 44 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Travel
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
The Reivers , 5 (Event)
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Actions: Physical›Jumping | Work›Blacksmith
Cultural Issues: Law›Firearms
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
The Reivers , 50 (Event)
Environment: Place›Lane | Place›Motordrome
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Driving
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Speed | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Dogs
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
The Reivers , 52 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Hurried | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Car | Physical›Driving
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 68 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Lifting
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Infrastructure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 69 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Flatulence | Bodily›Hiding | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Clothes›Sunday clothes
The Reivers , 74 (Event)
Environment: Place›Outlaw country | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Conversion | Physical›Riding | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Religion›Baptist | Religion›Challenge | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
The Reivers , 81 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Lifting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Share-cropping | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Traditions
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Plow
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Language›Hee hee hee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
The Sound and the Fury, 100 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Public›Post office | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Sawmill
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Protection | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 107 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Prostitute-Client | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Phallic symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 11 (Event)
Environment: Place›Graveyard | Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Worry | Movement›Carriage | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Monument | Objects›Pencil | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Tone›Sarcastic
The Sound and the Fury, 111 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Natural›River | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Physical›Meddling | Physical›Protection | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Cousin | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Literary›Antony and Cleopatra | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Gods | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 112 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Lust | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 112 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Trees | Place›Road
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Physical›Trampling
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Advertising | Progress›Smoke stack
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New England
The Sound and the Fury, 113 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Healing | Bodily›Sweating | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Objects›Basket | Objects›Fence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Language›Ah Ah Ah | Language›Fragments | Language›ah ah ah | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 114 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Johnstown, Pennsylvania | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Flood imagery | Language›WhoOoooo | Language›WhoOooooooooooooooo | Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia
The Sound and the Fury, 115 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Ditches | Natural›Woods
Actions: Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Castration | Violent›Self-mutilation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Body›Blood | Body›Testicles | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language Chinese | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 115 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Uncertainty | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 116 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›Leaf / leaves | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Religion›Resurrection
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish | Animals›Insects mayflies | Appearance›Depth / deepness | Appearance›Surface | Body›Eyes | Death›Afterlife | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Bones | Death›Compared to sleep | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Allusion, Mythical›Narcissus | Figures of Speech›Arrow | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Symbolism›Christian
The Sound and the Fury, 116 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Shame | Moral›Punishment | Moral›Purification | Physical›Burning | Physical›Pointing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Recurring Tropes›Beyond | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Luke | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Literary›Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 117 (Event)
Environment: Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Emotional›Horror | Physical›Pointing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 12 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Place›Barn | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 120 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Train sound | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Otherworldly›Earth / the world | Place›Road | Place›Rural | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Infinity | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Pencil | Figures of Speech›Stencil | Language›Fragments
The Sound and the Fury, 124 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Shame | Perceptual›Sensing | Physical›Pushing away | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 124 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defeat | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Escaping | Physical›Starting over | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Sex and death
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 124 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Escaping | Physical›Starting over
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Futility | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Money | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 125 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Olfactory›Baking / bread
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Charity | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Stealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Jewish | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Food›Bread | Food›Cake | Food›Coffee | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›American | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration / immigrants | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Librarian look | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Money›Nickel coin | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem/song "The Star-Spangled Banner" |