Actions: Agricultural
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Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hope | Work›Chopping wood
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Paranoia
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Moral›Deception
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Economic›Borrowing
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Public›Road
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Movement›Mule
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Sacramental
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Balance
Actions: Agricultural
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Agricultural | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Race
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: Absence/Loss›War | Community›Social life | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Plane accident
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Milking | Physical›Starting fire
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Clothes›Sunday shoes
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›San Francisco | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Agricultural›Incompetent farming
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Character›Unknowable
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Religion›Lay preacher
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Verbal›Storytelling
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Genre Conventions›Mystery
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Idleness | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Sewing | Domestic›Washing | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: War›Patriotism | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Farm | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Work›Store clerk
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Moral›Corrupting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Cultural Identity›Puritan | Economy›Wealth | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry | Gender›Labor | Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Story-telling›Retelling
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Environment: Place›Cottonfield
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Passivity | Mental›Fatalism | Moral›Exploitation | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: War›Recuperation | War›Return from war
Environment: Natural›Moon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Agricultural›Ginning cotton | Bodily›Singing | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Movement›Car | Work›Milling
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Race›Stereotype mule
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Art›African American music
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Homer | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Overwrought
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Interracial›Mammy-child
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Defiance
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Race›Black property ownership
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Breathing | Emotional›Jealousy | Mental›Planning | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Domestic›Cooking
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Mammy-child
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters | Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Agricultural›Plowing
Environment: Natural›Trees | Public›Road | Time of Day›Monday morning | Time of Year›May
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Agricultural›Plowing | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial spheres
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Buying timber | Verbal›Gossip
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Bodily›Running | Movement›Car | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Olfactory›Smoke | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold | Weather›Frost
Actions: Agricultural›Hog farming | Hunting›Rabbit hunting
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Predicting
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Verbal›Conversation
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›July Fourth | Time of Year›Juneteenth | Time of Year›New Year | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Actions: Agricultural›Milking a cow | Legal›Bailing out | Work›Yard work
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Hangover | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Agricultural›Planting
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Boss-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Harvest
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Emotional›Tragic / tragedy
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Verbal›Swearing
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Bodily›Waking
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Mental›Learning
Cultural Issues: Education›Rural school | Sexuality›Interracial
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care
Cultural Issues: Violence›Killing animal
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Animal horse
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting
Actions: Agricultural›Child labor | Movement›Running away
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Showing up | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Economic›Auction
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Economic›Horse trading
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Domestic›Cooking | Physical›Eating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Economic›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Infection
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Bodily›Eating
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Snopesism | Economy›Contract | Health and Illness›Hospitalization|Operation | Health and Illness›Recuperation
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Environment: Time of Year›Harvest
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Futility›Inability
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Sleeping
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Physical›Digging
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Emotional›Patience
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Nothing to do
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock
Actions: Agricultural›Hog farming | Emotional›Hysteria | Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Actions: Agricultural›Hog farming
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Communication›And deafness | Mental›Planning | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Moonshine | Government›State government | Law›Incarceration | Law›Parole
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Philosophical›Human nature | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Verbal›Lying
Actions: Agricultural›Hay-making | Verbal›Denial
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Crickets | Animals›Grasshoppers | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Agricultural›Raising|shipping cattle
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Domestic›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Gender›Maternal impulse
Environment: Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Movement›Racing
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Relationships: Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Scolding | Movement›Running away | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Taking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Communication›Letter | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Labor›Racialized | Prejudice›Racism | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insect boll weevil | Money›Check | Objects›Farming tools | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Natural›Creek | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Domestic›Milking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Pigs | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Progress›Roads | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Place›Field | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Emotional›Self-pity | Movement›Sneaking | Physical›Evasion | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Health and Illness›Headache | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Technology›Car | Technology›Car tire
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Values›Family honor
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Domestic›Cooking | Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Complaining
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute | Home›Dwelling | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Fire
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Migration
Environment: Domestic Space›Stable
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Moral›Secret