Actions: Mental Speculation
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
- Realization
- Reinterpretation
- Remembering
- Repression
- Self-consciousness
- Skepticism
- Studying
- Submission / Acquiescence
- Suppression / trying not to think
- Thinking
- Unaware
- Uncertainty
- Understanding
- Visualize
Tagged Events
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Play›Chess | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Speculation
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: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Money›Gold
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: 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: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender | Sexuality›Experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Adultery
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Actions: Economic›Delivery | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Exaggeration
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Social›Neighbor
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Wagon
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›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Predicting
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Hiding | Movement›Running | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black" | Race›Racial identity
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Marital›Vicarious wedding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Clock | Philosophical›Freedom
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Cynicism | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Excrement | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shirt | Education›Being well read / erudite | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Objects›Bricks | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Emotional›Lust | Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Tone›Sarcastic
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Commercial›Rivalry | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language›French | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Violent›Shooting
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Restauranteer
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific