Actions: Verbal Telling

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"Death Drag", 193 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
"Mule in the Yard", 257 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Public›Store
Actions: Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol
"Pantaloon in Black", 252 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
"Retreat", 34 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
"Smoke", 15 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Making a case
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
"There Was a Queen", 734 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
"There Was a Queen", 737 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wet clothes
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism
Absalom, Absalom!, 178 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Community | Psychological›Trauma
Absalom, Absalom!, 60 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Flags in the Dust, 58 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Go Down, Moses, 147 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Go Down, Moses, 41 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife
Go Down, Moses, 63 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Actions: Physical›Searching | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still
Go Down, Moses, 63 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
Sanctuary, 108 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: War›Military reassignment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun
Sanctuary, 215 (Event)
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
The Sound and the Fury, 19 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Bow and arrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 33 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Unvanquished, 205 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Mule | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | War›Reconstruction
The Unvanquished, 73 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army