Actions: Mental Planning
Parent Term
Sibling 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
- Predicting
- Realization
- Reinterpretation
- Remembering
- Repression
- Self-consciousness
- Skepticism
- Speculation
- Studying
- Submission / Acquiescence
- Suppression / trying not to think
- Thinking
- Unaware
- Uncertainty
- Understanding
- Visualize
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Planning | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Age›Youth vs age
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
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
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Learning | Mental›Planning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Ambitious | Character›Vanity | Determinism›Fated | Meaning›Mystery | Past | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Time›Future
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Determinism›Lack of choice | Objects›Letter | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Language barriers | Economic›Buying | Mental›Planning | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Interracial | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Wagon
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Supernatural›Insight
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Planning | Perceptual›Listening
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: Agricultural›Plowing | Bodily›Breathing | Emotional›Jealousy | Mental›Planning | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Fire | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Planning | Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Undressing | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Whispering
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism | Religion›God
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Values›Misogyny
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Building structure | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Mental›Planning | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Education›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Cultural Issues: History›Spanish Civil War | Progress›Air travel
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Cultural Issues: Education›Negro education | Health and Illness›Deafness
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Planning | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Year›September
Actions: Agricultural›Cotton picking | Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Smoking | Communication›And deafness | Mental›Planning | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Moonshine | Government›State government | Law›Incarceration | Law›Parole
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Philosophical›Human nature | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Hill country | Law›Incarceration
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Place›Railroad
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Progress›New replacing old | Religion›Religious faith | Slavery›As cause of Civil War | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Superstitions
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | Race›Negro reporting white behavior | Race›Negro-lover
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Objects›Pistol
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail | Crime›Prostitution | Sexuality›Impotence | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Pornography | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Uncertain relationship | Marital›Jealousy
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Social›Adversarial