Actions: Mental Discovery
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accepting
- Believing
- Calculation
- Changing one's mind
- Channeling
- Compulsion
- Confusion
- Contemplation
- Counting
- Curiosity
- Day-dreaming
- Deciding
- Deduction
- Disapproval
- Disbelief
- Disorientation
- Distraction
- Distrust
- Dreaming
- Economizing
- Envisioning
- Failing / Failure
- Fantasizing
- Fatalism
- Flashback
- Forgetting
- Hallucinating
- Imagining
- Impairment
- Inattentativeness
- Incomprehension
- Inquiry
- Insight
- Internal argument
- Knowing
- Learning
- Logically reasoning
- Misunderstanding
- Nightmare
- Planning
- Predicting
- Realization
- Reinterpretation
- Remembering
- Repression
- Self-consciousness
- Skepticism
- Speculation
- Studying
- Submission / Acquiescence
- Suppression / trying not to think
- Thinking
- Unaware
- Uncertainty
- Understanding
- Visualize
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Milking | Domestic›Nursing | Domestic›Washing | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Rural poverty
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Naming›False name | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Character›Innocence
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Past›Unknown/concealed past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Indian agency | Place›Official office | Place›River-bottom | Time of Day›Saturday night
Actions: Bodily›Waking | Communication›Lack of communication | Communication›Silence | Economic›Buying | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Record keeping | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Economy›White-Indian commerce | History›Indian Removal | Law›Legal document | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Knowledge | Community›Secrecy | Money›Coin | Money›Gold | Texts›Deed
Relationships: Economical | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metonym | Narrative›Withholding
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Time›Long passage of time | Time›Past
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Hurried | Emotional›Impatience | Mental›Calculation | Mental›Discovery | Mental›Realization | Mental›Speculation | Moral›Secret
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Teetotaling | Economy›Poverty | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lacking | Psychological›Motivation | Psychological›Obsession | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Domestic›Camping | Domestic›Cooking | Economic›Paying | Mental›Discovery | Mental›Learning | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Migration | Nationality›French
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Lacking | Objects›Fire | Time›Duration of time | Values›Determination | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Martinique | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Olfactory | Place›Jefferson | Public›Town Square
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Mental›Realization | Movement›Driving | Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Community›Local legends | Time›Anticipation | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out | Values›Determination | Values›Durability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Mental›Discovery
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Romantic
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Relationships: Familial | Friendship
Cultural Issues: Gender
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Don Juan | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Violence›Ambush
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Capture as loss | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Investigating
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Believing | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Misspeaking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes | Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Education›College | Education›Female education
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Grammatically incorrect
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text