Actions: Mental
Child Terms
- Accepting
- Believing
- Calculation
- Changing one's mind
- Channeling
- Compulsion
- Confusion
- Contemplation
- Counting
- Curiosity
- Day-dreaming
- Deciding
- Deduction
- Disapproval
- Disbelief
- Discovery
- 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: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Grayness | Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Sunset
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Realization | Play›Poker | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Indian mound
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Health and Illness›Insanity | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Suspicion | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Play›Prank | Verbal›Bragging | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Technology›Automobile
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Language barrier
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | War›Military rank of general
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Themes and Motifs: Futility›In battle | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Actions: Mental›Forgetting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy committed | Tone›Incongruous
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
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
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Mourning | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Recurring Tropes›Searching
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Emotional›Shock | Mental›Accepting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Morals›Faith | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Imagined | Morals›Faith | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Death›Animal horse | Death›Corpse
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pony | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Riding | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ancestral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Objects›Books | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Invalid
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Scoundrel | Story-telling›Explaining
Actions: Mental›Predicting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
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: Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Jewish
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Stingy with money
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Aaahhhhhhh | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Prejudice›Racism | Prejudice›White supremacy
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rejection | Mental›Repression | Movement›Car | Movement›Getting closer
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Irony | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
Actions: Emotional›Refusal | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Refusal | Mental›Skepticism | Verbal›Disagreeing
Actions: Mental›Realization | Verbal›Withholding
Relationships: Interracial
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Behaving "black" | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nondescript | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reality
Actions: Mental›Distrust | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Chess | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Play›Chess | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Planning | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Age›Youth vs age
Actions: Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Seeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Verbal›Esoteric language
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Hunting clothes | Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Scruffiness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Elephants | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Tigers
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Body›Eyes | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Will to endure
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Unknowable
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Gun
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Mental›Realization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Clothes›Hunting clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mosquitoes | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Past›Recent past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
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
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Work›Painting|Drawing
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Exultation | Mental›Channeling
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
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
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Reading
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Dogs | Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Home›Distance from home
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Moral›Deception
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Violent›Explosion
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Displacement
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: Technology›Invention
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Exodus | Allusion, Biblical›Genesis
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Hearth | Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Hallucinating | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past
Actions: Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: History›Awareness of / Being in history
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | History›Awareness of / Being in history
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
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
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Mental›Remembering
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›November
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Inheritance | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Hunting›Waiting | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Crossing | Perceptual›Hearing
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Animal / stable
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›November
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Objects›Footprint
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Competition | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Past | Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Stable | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Philosophical›Freedom of choice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Snake | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Compass | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Hunting›Bird hunting | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization | Movement›Wrong direction | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Named bear Ben | Home›In nature | Objects›Compass | Objects›Footprint | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Trembling | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-bear
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Train / locomotive imagery
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Failing / Failure | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Competition
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Mental›Reinterpretation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Humility | Character›Pride | Values›Liberty
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white | Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-bear | Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Emotional›Pity | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Character›Pride | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear | Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Insomnia | Domestic›Cleaning | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Racial spheres
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Misunderstanding
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Mental›Realization | Non-human›Dog barking
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Believing
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Gender›Masculine woman
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Narrative›Narrative anomaly
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Agriculture›Farming life | Law›Eye for an eye | Law›Grand jury | Law›Hearing | Law›Indictment | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Justice | Morals›Responsibility | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Movement›Driving
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
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
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
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›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Character›Innocence
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Understanding
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Breaking and entering
Actions: Mental›Understanding | Physical›Camping
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Goggles | Clothes›Shirt | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Black foresight | Region›The West
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›California | Description›Eyes
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Betrayal | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Language | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Voice
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Buggy
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Death
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Looking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Disorientation
Cultural Issues: Class | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Actions: Mental›Learning | Verbal›Reading aloud
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Class›Planter vs farmer | Economy›Wealth | Education
Themes and Motifs: Character›Self-reliance | Texts
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Morals›Injustice | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Time
Themes and Motifs: Memory | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Money›Gold
Environment: Natural
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Migration
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Steamboat | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Suppression / trying not to think
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Miscegenation | War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Interracial | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Disorientation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Enlistment | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Auditory›Combat sounds
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Emotional›Anguish | Mental›Thinking | Military›Combat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›Richmond, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Collaborative narration | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Body›Mental disability | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Godhead | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Character›Swagger
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Familial | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Character›Swagger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Mythical›Phoenix | Ambiguity
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Fantasy
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Painting | Metafictional›Picture/image
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Mental›Discovery
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Architecture | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Unaware | Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Fatalism | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Barbarism | Character›Sophistication
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman consul | Allusion, Historical›Scythian
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial
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: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Female | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Character›Provincialism
Environment: Place›Slave market
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Racialized | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Concubinage
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
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Indecision | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Perceptual›Observing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Supernatural›Insight
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender | Sexuality›Experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
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
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Mental›Calculation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Death by water / Drowning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Mental›Skepticism | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Memory›Remembering | Story-telling
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Calculation
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Anticipation of death | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Mental›Counting | Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Character›Forbearance | Death›Coffin | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Animals›Buzzards | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Exaggeration
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Self-justifying
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-sister
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
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Hate | Mental›Channeling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Actions: Communication›Without words | Mental›Channeling
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door | Values›Truth/Lies
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Wagon
Actions: Mental›Channeling | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Red necks | Body›Hair | Death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Snake
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Psychological›Trauma
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Materialism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Toys
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau
Actions: Emotional›Sympathy | Mental›Predicting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Farming life | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Religion›Piety
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Community›Opinion | Values›Providence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight
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
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Grave
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Military›Escape | Movement›Limping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Free indirect discourse
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Flight
Actions: Hunting›Rabbit hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Hunting›Blowing horn | Hunting›Possum | Mental›Distraction
Actions: Mental›Incomprehension
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
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
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Sexuality›Sensuality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Death›Longing for death
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dots
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›Deafness | Mass Media›Newspaper
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Objects›Milk
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Migration›North | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Marriage | Slavery›Slave trading
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Genealogy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Metal detector
Actions: Legal›Divorce | Mental›Changing one's mind
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Etiquette
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Dogs | Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black incarceration | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Actions: Hunting›Teaching | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Understanding
Relationships: Intergenerational›Tutor-student
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Mental›Reinterpretation | Verbal›Interruption
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Mental›Visualize
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Moral›Secret | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Slave trading
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Evil | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›Romantic
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Mental›Realization | Mental›Visualize | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Concubinage
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
Actions: Communication›Writing | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Naming self
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Reinterpretation | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›And race | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization | Work›Teaching | Work›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Labor›Racialized
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Values›Family honor
Cultural Issues: Economy›Retirement
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Crossing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Lethe
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy
Environment: Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife