Actions: Legal Arrest
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Arraign
- Bailing out
- Bonding
- Calling police
- Charge/accuse
- Claim
- Confession
- Counsel
- Defending
- Deliberating
- Discharging jury
- Dismissing a case
- Divorce
- Exhumation order
- Handcuffing
- Hearing
- Locking up
- Marriage
- Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer
- Pardon
- Pronouncing sentence
- Recess
- Record keeping
- Release of prisoner
- Remarriage
- Standing guard
- Summation
- Testifying
- Trial
- Warrant
- Will
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Law›Alienating
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Library
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Gender›Southern woman | War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Accent
Cultural Issues: Gender | Race | Religion | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Dismemberment | Legal›Arrest | Physical›Searching | Violent›Animal attack on human | Violent›Violence against animals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Animals›Dogs
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Legal›Arrest | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Following | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Law›Arrest
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Community›Posse | Community›Preserving order | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Legal›Arrest | Verbal›Confession
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Popeye's execution
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Cultural Issues: Law›Corruption
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Entertainment›Horse race | Law›Corruption | Law›Custody | Politics›Democracy | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Segregation
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Running sound | Natural›Water moving / flowing
Actions: Bodily›Retching | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Laughing | Legal›Arrest | Legal›Handcuffing | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Stuttering / stammering | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Vest | Food›Bread | Health and Illness›Nausea | Law›Badge | Law›Constitutional right to remain silent | Law›Criminal assault | Law›Criminal assault and battery | Law›Custody | Nationality›Foreigners | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insects butterflies | Appearance›Dirty | Body›Arm | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Shoulder | Body›Stomach/belly | Body›Throat | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Civic | Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Assailant-victim
Aesthetics: Description›Color yellow | Language›Foreign accent / dialect | Language›ah ah ah
Environment: Domestic Space›Chicken coop / hen house | Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Legal›Arrest | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Movement›Procession | Physical›Climbing | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Beating | Violent›Kidnapping | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Veil | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Law›Custody | Law›Marshal | Technology›Automobile | Violence›Child abuse | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Foot / Feet | Memory›Forgetting
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Malapropism | Figures of Speech›Glove | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Scolding | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Legal›Arrest | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Clothes›Veil | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self | Technology›Automobile
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›African American | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail | Entertainment | Progress›Technological | Sexuality›Pornography
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bravado | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence