Actions: Mental Realization
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
- Planning
- Predicting
- 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›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: 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›Refusal | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Mental›Realization | Verbal›Withholding
Relationships: Interracial
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
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Reality
Actions: Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Verbal›Esoteric language
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Mental›Realization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
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: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
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›Realization | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Home›Distance from home
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
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: 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: 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
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›Eating supper | Mental›Realization | Non-human›Dog barking
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Breaking and entering
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery
Actions: Mental›Realization
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
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
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›Realization | Work›Teaching | Work›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Labor›Racialized
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Emotional›Rebelliousness | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moment of | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Panic | Mental›Realization
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Mental›Realization
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Mental›Realization
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Law›Federal vs state crime
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Paranoia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Sexual double standard | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Unnatural / Contrary to nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Sex and death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Calling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Femininity | Religion›Christianity
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Mental›Predicting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death | Naming›Renaming | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Religion›African American | Religion›Church service | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›Resurrection | Religion›Sermon | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Bible verse on children | Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Allusion, Biblical›Mary | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Epiphany | Symbolism›Blood | Symbolism›Christian
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Public›Road | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›Sermon
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Character›Independence | Character›Innocence | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Objects›Furniture | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Courage
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Rain | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Wishing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Failure to defend honor | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Nickname | Objects›Dolls | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Investing | Mental›Realization | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Economic›Investing | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Moral›Purification | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Coming of age | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Realization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Present-time reference