Actions: Violent
Child Terms
- Airplane crash
- Animal abuse
- Animal attack on human
- Animal predatory behavior
- Arson
- Asphyxiation
- Assault
- Beating
- Boxing
- Car accident
- Castration
- Dehumanization
- Destructive behavior
- Disfigurement
- Domestic violence
- Dragging
- Entry
- Explosion
- Fighting
- Hitting
- Homicide
- Intent to kill
- Interracial
- Intimidation
- Kicking
- Kidnapping
- Killing
- Killing in war
- Killing of animals
- Lynch mob
- Murder
- Mutilation
- Poisoning
- Raiding
- Restraining
- Scratching
- Self-mutilation
- Sexual assault
- Shooting
- Slapping
- Stabbing
- Suicide
- Threatening
- Throwing downstairs
- Vengeance
- Violence against animals
- Whipping
Tagged Events
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death | Values›Bad conduct
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
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: 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›Fear | Moral›Deception | Moral›Scheming | Play›Prank | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Law›Revenue officer
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Explaining
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Communication›Language barriers | Moral›Deception | Movement›Walking | Physical›Capture | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic | Physical›Burning | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Past | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Crime›Murder | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suspicious | Naming›Renaming
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Poisoning
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Native American
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Violent›Intimidation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Violent›Intimidation
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Physical›Jumping | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Intimidation | Violent›Killing of animals
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Communication›Letter | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Identity, Personal
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National | War›Defeat
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Uniform
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Mental›Uncertainty | Violent›Animal abuse
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Meaning›Misinterpretation | Psychological›Paranoia
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Uniform
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gilbert and Sullivan | Language›French | Tone›Humorous
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Character›Recklessness
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Lying | Movement›Hiding | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Listening | Violent›Killing of animals
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Trans-regional | Gender›Chivalry | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Home›Distance from home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Economy›Property | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Commandments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Violent›Disfigurement | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Naming›Change over time | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poster
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Disguise | Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Character›Hubris | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Genre Conventions›Parable | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Violent›Castration
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy castrated
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Command | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Animals›Whippoorwills | Home | Objects›Candle | Philosophical›Ethics | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Abusive | Marital›Conflict
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Year›Spring
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab's war wound
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Women | Gender›Femininity
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Kinship
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal issue
Themes and Motifs: Values›Justice | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Silence | Violent›Vengeance
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›April
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Disguise
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype mule
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›July Fourth
Actions: Movement›Flight | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Law›Legal document
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Limping | Economic›Paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Food›Gum | Law›Aviation | War›Veterans
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Stereotypical Jewish accent
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Prejudice›Racism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Breathing | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Environment: Domestic Space›Closet
Actions: Interaction, Social›Competition | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Passing | Race›Racial identity | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Racialized
Relationships: Interracial›Prospective
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Cleansing power of water
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Not caring about race | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Accident
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
Environment: Place›Country vs city | Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›Breaking and entering
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Health and Illness›Injury | Law›Arrest
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Hate | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Local legends
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Trying to kill Gualdres
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Train | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Named bear Ben | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname
Cultural Issues: Violence›Accident | Violence›Interracial
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Hunting›Waiting | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Values›Courage | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal bear | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Owed
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Terror | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Moral›Confession | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Pneumonia
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Environment: Place›Gas station | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Alibi | Law›Eyewitness
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Public›Railroad tracks | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Place›Crime scene | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›April
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Auditory›Gallop | Domestic Space›Outhouse | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: War›Pillage | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Moral›Cheating | Play›Gambling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Murder | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift | Narrative›Summary | Narrative›Temporal projection
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Tennessee
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›Disorientation | Violent›Explosion
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Labor | Religion›Rituals and rites
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Food›Community | Region›Reconstruction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Veil | Law›Legal issue | Politics›Election | Politics›Voting | Race
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Ambiguous circumstances
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›And an animal | Past›Past in present
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Determinism›Fated | Memory›Forgetting
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Forgetting
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Actions: Violent›Domestic violence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Drugs | Law›Arrest
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Community›Taboos | Death›Ambiguous circumstances
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Detective fiction
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Domestic violence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Inherited traits | Inheritance›Property
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Gender | Race | Religion | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Race | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Nancy confronts white man
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Lane
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Monday morning | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Holding | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Message | Verbal›Promising | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Physical›Carrying | Physical›Running | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Vengeance
Themes and Motifs: Death›Denial | Death›Moving a dead body
Aesthetics: Narrative›Child's perspective
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: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Perceptual›Smelling | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injury
Environment: Time of Year›November
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Dogs
Environment: Olfactory›Decomposition
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Spectral
Environment: Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Dismemberment | Legal›Arrest | Physical›Searching | Violent›Animal attack on human | Violent›Violence against animals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Animals›Dogs
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Economy›Market day
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive | Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Naming
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Government›Abdication | Government›Inherited position | Government›Usurpation | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Decayed house
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Economy›Gambling | Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Kinlessness | Naming›Nickname
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | War›Deployment
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Physical›Capture | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Environment: Auditory›Engine | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Movement›Flight | Physical›Holding | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Running | Violent›Airplane crash
Cultural Issues: Race›Black body
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Books | Texts›Anthropological
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Borneo
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Violent›Murder | Violent›Vengeance | Violent›Whipping
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash kills Sutpen
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Murder | Work›Law enforcement
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Scythe
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash charges posse
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Gambling | Region›The South | Religion›Institutional | Slavery›Southern curse | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Character›Teetotaler | Meaning | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Friendship | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›Heaven
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Symbolism›Roman
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Thunder | Public›Church
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Honky-Tonks | Race›Racial identity
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Race›Segregation
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Texts
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Revolt
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Slavery | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Sound of drums | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Odor
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Objects›Horsewhip | Objects›Scythe | Time›Duration of time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Community›Posse | Death›Corpse | Objects›Scythe | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash charges posse
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Warning | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Retelling | Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Gaps
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Interracial | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Futility | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Recovery | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Repair | Physical›Searching | Play›Betting | Verbal›Arguing | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Breast | Death›Coffin | Objects›Construction tools | Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Character›Violent | Death›And inheritance | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative anomaly | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Art›Classical Greek | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Race›Inverting a stereotype
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Legal›Charge/accuse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Crime›Arson | Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Economy›Property | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Death›Burial | Philosophical›Ethics | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Values›Propriety
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying | Violent›Fighting
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-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Worry | Verbal›Hushing | Violent
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Fish | Death›Response to
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight
Actions: Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Moonshine | War›Death | War›World War I
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Movement›Horse | Violent›Animal attack on human | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Violence›Accident
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Frogs | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Violence against animals
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
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 Year›July
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nausea | War›World War I
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Actions: Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | Race›Disenfranchisement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Actions: Emotional›Hero worship | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Tone›Incongruous
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Restraining
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Bodily›Watching | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating | Violent›Dragging | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Health and Illness›Insomnia | Sexuality›Fantasy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Non-human›Dog barking | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Bandage | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Year›December
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Arkansas
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Violent›Restraining
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Movement›Flight | Violent›Airplane crash
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Young Bayard's death
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Body›Moustache | Character›Ambitious | Futility | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Revenge
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Themes and Motifs: Values›Determination
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Movement›Truck | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Violent›Interracial | Work›Dismissal
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Moral›Cheating | Play›Gambling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Murder | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Lynch mob
Environment: Place›Yoknapatawpha Beat
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson, Tennessee
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
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Actions: Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Character›Power | Death›Suspicious
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Non-human›Attack | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Livestock | Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background | Recurring Episodes›Boon shoots Negro
Actions: Play›Card playing | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Marksmanship
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Language›snicksnicksnick...
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: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Hearing | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Stabbing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Death›Animal bear
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Violent›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Interpretation | 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
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Crime›And race | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Migration›Intraregional migration
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Actions: Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Razor
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›Yard
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Economy›Savings | Gender›Masculinity | Race›Equal rights | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Daybreak
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Competition | Familial›Extended family
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Competitive
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Monday
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Race›White supremacists
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Sleeplessness | Emotional›Exhaustion | Movement›Car | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country store | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Squatting | Bodily›Standing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Intent to kill | Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Suit | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Repetition | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Office | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Saturday morning
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Suicide
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Legal›Handcuffing | Violent›Interracial
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Legal›Charge/accuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Black incarceration
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Dusk
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Actions: Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Waiting | Emotional›Worry | Legal›Standing guard | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Car accident
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Tennis shoes
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Exasperation | Legal›Counsel | Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Violent›Lynch mob
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Division
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Falling | Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Singing | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Panting | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Asphyxiation | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Valley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Emotional›Calm | Hunting›Shooting | Mental›Accepting | Violent›Killing of animals | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Menstruation | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Women | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Archangel Michael | Allusion, Biblical›Jezebel | Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Running | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Romeo and Juliet | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Vindictive | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Breaking | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dishes | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Politics›Democrat | Region›New England | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New England
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Running away | Physical›Washing clothes | Verbal›Tirade | Violent›Beating | Violent›Domestic violence
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Denim | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Shirt | Religion›Fanaticism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Objects›Pistol
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Preacher / Minister
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Common law