Actions: Bodily
Child Terms
- Bathing and/or personal hygiene
- Birth / Being born
- Bleeding
- Blinking
- Blushing
- Breastfeeding
- Breathing
- Chewing
- Childbirth
- Choking
- Coughing
- Crying
- Decomposition
- Dipping snuff
- Drinking
- Drooling
- Dying
- Eating
- Eating breakfast
- Eating supper
- Fainting
- Falling
- Feeling pain
- Flatulence
- Gaining weight
- Going to bed
- Grinning
- Groaning
- Healing
- Heart beating
- Hiccups
- Hiding
- Hungering
- Idleness
- Insomnia
- Jumping
- Kissing
- Kneeling
- Laughing
- Limping
- Losing weight
- Miscarriage
- Panting
- Playing music
- Pregnancy
- Recoiling
- Retching
- Running
- Shaking
- Shaving
- Shivering
- Singing
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Smelling
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Spitting
- Squatting
- Staring
- Starvation
- Swallowing
- Sweating
- Thirsting
- Trembling
- Vomiting
- Waking
- Watching
- Work song
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Invisibility
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Mental›Envisioning
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering passim | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Premarital
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Gender›Body | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Hair | Death
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Post-war | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Redemption
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Uniform
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Uniform
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gilbert and Sullivan | Language›French | Tone›Humorous
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Character›Recklessness
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Race›Stereotype sweat
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Negation
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
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Door
Environment: Natural›Creek | Place›Country store | Public›Blacksmith
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Auction | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Whispering | Work›Blacksmith
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Story-telling
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Command | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Animals›Whippoorwills | Home | Objects›Candle | Philosophical›Ethics | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Abusive | Marital›Conflict
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Grief | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Listening
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hope | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Maturity | Money | Values›Greed
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Women | Gender›Femininity
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Kinship
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Water
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Economy›Property | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Government›Audit | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Verbal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Silence | Violent›Vengeance
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Brass
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Water
Environment: Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Suit | Entertainment›Barnstorming
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Actions: Bodily›Shaking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Environment: Time of Day›Saturday night
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming
Environment: Auditory›Airplane sound | Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Going to bed
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Breathing | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Kidnapping | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Moon
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Fever
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Silence | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Magazines | Violence›Domestic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Exultation
Relationships: Interracial›As rebellious
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Auditory›Footsteps | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Introspective
Environment: Auditory›Cars passing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Law›Police
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Mystery
Actions: Bodily›Blushing | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Fear | Legal›Locking up | Physical›Protection | Work›Lawyering
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Labor›Translation
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›Library | Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Hunting | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Named dog Lion
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Social›Leadership | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Poker game | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Religion›Godhead
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Competitive | Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Train | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Named bear Ben | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Elephants | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Tigers
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Intimidation | Movement›Train | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Objects›Suitcase | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Movement›Train | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Bear hunting | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Appearance›Scruffiness | Objects›Gun
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Injury
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal Dog | Death›Animal bear
Environment: Time of Day›Noon | Weather›Sun
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal Dog
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Terror | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Money
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
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
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Gaining weight | Communication›Letter | Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Poisoning | Sexuality›Frustration
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
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Long passage of time
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident | Death›In childbirth | Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Place›Cottonfield | Place›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Time of Year›January | Weather›Fog
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Comedy
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Apparition | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Outhouse | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: Race
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Supper
Environment: Public›Supply house
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Illiteracy
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Olfactory›Smelling water
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Ambitious | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Honor
Relationships: Friendship | Sexual
Cultural Issues: Slavery›African origins | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Economic›Gifting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Crime›Theft | Government›Usurpation | Health and Illness›Obesity
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Actions: Bodily›Running | Hunting›Slave hunting
Cultural Issues: Government›Inherited position | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices | Inheritance | Objects›Slipper
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Slavery›African origins
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Hunting›Slave hunting
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Ritual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›France
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Clothes›Vest | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Arrivals/Departures
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Arrivals/Departures
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Hunting›Slave hunting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conversation with oneself
Environment: Auditory›Howling | Time of Day›Sunset
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Running | Hunting›Fox hunting | Hunting›Slave hunting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Drum
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Hunting›Rabbit hunting
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Sunset
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Natural›Creek bottom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition
Cultural Issues: Food
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Natural›Swamp | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Singing | Physical›Apprehending
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Community›Crowd | Death›Funeral | Death›Indian burial practices
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Well | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread
Themes and Motifs: Futility
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Milking
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Physical›Bathing
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Labor
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Work›Construction
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Race | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Kitchen
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
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
Cultural Issues: Labor›Domestic | Race›Racist child | Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Ritual›Initiation | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Story-telling
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Indian name
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Past›Old days
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Actions: Bodily›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Government›Bureaucracy | Health and Illness›Amputation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Values›Honor
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Walking | Physical›Building
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Day›Night
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
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Ethnicity›Jewish | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Identity, Cultural›South vs North
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Verbal›Dialogue
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Verbal›Storytelling
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Mystery
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Education›Primary school | Global›Pacific Ocean
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Bodily›Idleness | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Withholding | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›MacArthur, Douglas | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Work›Chopping wood
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Age›Youth | Nationality›Japanese | War›Patriotism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Home | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Nationality›Japanese | War›Patriotism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
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
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Environment: Place›Farm | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Paying | Economic›Trading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Mass Media›Telephone
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Sibling | Social›Adversarial | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Tone›Humorous
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
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Mass Media›Telephone
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Reproduction | War›Civil War
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Hero worship | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Objects›Scythe
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Verbal›Invitation
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Winter
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | War›Deprivation | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Respectability | Class›White trash | Crime›Murder | History›Stealing Indian land | Region›Reconstruction | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Civil War | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Beelzebub | Allusion, Historical›Davis, Jefferson | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Agamemnon | Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Pyramus and Thisbe | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Jackal | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Tone›Shift
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Status, low | Food
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Jug | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Interaction, Social›Charity
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Smoking | Interaction, Social›Camaraderie
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›French
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Race | Religion›Apotheosis | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Uncertain
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Communication›Messenger
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Painting
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Apotheosis | War›Civil War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Drawing room
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Body›Skin | Character›Naivety | Home›Homecoming | Story-telling›Collaborative | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Drawing room
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative | Time›Simultaneity of time
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Race | Region›The South | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Fighting | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Death | Home›Homecoming | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Trauma | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Law›Bail | Ritual
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Marital›Father in law-son in law
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Objects›Piano
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance | Objects›Candelabra | Objects›Damask | Objects›Porcelain
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Writing | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Region›Lost Cause | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Texts›Newspapers
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Drinking
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Neighbor
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Making a bed | Emotional›Stubbornness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Respect | Story-telling›Retelling
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Coffin | Objects›Wagon
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Recovery | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Repair | Physical›Searching | Play›Betting | Verbal›Arguing | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Breast | Death›Coffin | Objects›Construction tools | Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment
Cultural Issues: Religion›Challenge | Religion›Heresy | Religion›Piety | Religion›Sacrilege | Religion›Sin | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Redemption | Philosophical›Salvation
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Mental›Skepticism | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Memory›Remembering | Story-telling
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Geese | Character›Duty | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Liminal | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Naming | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Domestic›Cleaning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Preparing for death | Meaning›Interpretation of symbol | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Meaninglessness
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones
Themes and Motifs: Death›Like death | Objects›Construction tools | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Yelling
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fish | Animals›Horses | Death›Denial | Meaning›Maternity
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Mother-son | Interspecies›Man-fish | Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Tone›Absurdist | Tone›Farce
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Health and Illness›Infection
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Infection
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Comforting
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness
Aesthetics: Language›yes Yes Yes yes
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
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
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration | Narrative›First-person passim | Style›Cubism
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Philosophical›Luck | Psychological›Motivation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Resentment
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dipping snuff
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Opportunism | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Rage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Accusatory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Gender›Labor | Health and Illness›Abortion | Health and Illness›Medical advice | Health and Illness›Obesity | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Memory›Remembering
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injured | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Community›Opinion | Death›Funeral | Values›Determination
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Ritual›Funeral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Voice
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Philosophical›Freedom
Relationships: Marital
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deaf
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Blind
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Wilson, Woodrow
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Tone›Apocalyptic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Health and Illness›Headache
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Personification
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Alcohol›Wine | Health and Illness›Amputation | Health and Illness›Anaesthetic | Health and Illness›Headache
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Insect sounds
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traditional music
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cerberus | Description›Delayed decoding | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
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›