Actions: Movement Walking
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambulance
- Aviation
- Bicycle
- Boat
- Buggy
- Bus
- Canoe
- Car
- Carriage
- Cart
- Chasing
- Constant
- Crash
- Crossing
- Direction east
- Driving
- Ferry
- Fetching
- Flat tire
- Flight
- Following
- Getting closer
- Hiding
- Hitch-hiking
- Horse
- Hot-air balloon
- Hurrying
- Interurban streetcar / trolley
- Limousine
- Limping
- Marching
- Matching / Paralleling
- Migration
- Mule
- Ox
- Procession
- Racing
- Random
- Return
- Riding
- Running
- Running away
- Ship
- Sneaking
- Spitting
- Steamboat
- Stopping
- Streetcar
- Surrey
- Swimming
- Taxi
- Traffic
- Train
- Truck
- Wagon
- Wrong direction
Tagged Events
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: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Trading | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Environment: Place›Cottonfield | Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Objects›Still
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry | Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Power | Class›Professional | Economy›Wealth | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | History›Indian Removal | Land-Use›Collective exploitation | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oklahoma | Language›Fragments | Recurring Episodes›Indian removal
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hope | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Maturity | Money | Values›Greed
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Otherworldly›Beyond living world passim
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Money›Collecting money | Money›Expenses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Torch-light | Natural›Creek bottom
Environment: Place›River-bottom | Time of Year›July
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Voices
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flashlight | Objects›License Plate
Cultural Issues: Education›History | Entertainment›Movies
Cultural Issues: Labor›Translation
Environment: Place›Lonelier parts of town
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Footprint
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Woods | Place›Quarters | Place›Road | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Obesity
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Slipper | Psychological›Obsession
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Homefront
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Place›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Money›Lacking
Cultural Issues: Labor›Domestic | Race›Racist child | Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Singing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Natural›Woods | Time of Year›November | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Description›Color green
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Snake | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Compass | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Relocation
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Walking | Physical›Building
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Themes and Motifs: Time›Permanence
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Miscegenation
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
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Sawmill | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Education | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Radio | War›Aerial combat | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Public›Road
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | War›Deployment
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Race | Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›White anxiety
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: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Walking
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Place›Hotel | Public›Road | Public›Street | Public›Town Square
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Communication›Silence | Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Legal›Warrant | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Following | Movement›Horse | Movement›Procession | Movement›Riding | Movement›Stopping | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Community collective | Law›Warrant | Politics›Public opinion
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Character›Resolve | Character›Unknowable | Community›Opinion | Community›Posse | Objects›Basket | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Legal›Arrest | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Following | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Law›Arrest
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Community›Posse | Community›Preserving order | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Public›Street | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Appearance›Surface | Character›Cautious | Character›Swagger | Community›Opinion | Past›Past in present | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Shawl | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Place›Houses | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Weather›Heat
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Lace | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Home›Neglect | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Clothes›Cloak | Clothes›Gown | Clothes›Hat | Gender›Cross-dress | Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Character›Provincialism | Character›Sophistication | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Tone›Absurdist | Tone›Farce
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Animals›Buzzards | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Toys
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Return from war
Environment: Olfactory
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Pipe | Past›Prehistory | Supernatural›Ghost
Environment: Atmospheric›Grayness | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Psychological›Disembodiment | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Quarters | Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Footprint | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Actions: Legal›Standing guard | Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Explaining
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Walking
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Morality | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m.
Actions: Legal›Release of prisoner | Movement›Walking
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Year›January | Weather›Cold
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Distraction | Movement›Walking
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Saturday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tennis shoes | Health and Illness›Surgery
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Chair | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Coffee pot | Objects›Cup | Objects›Kettle | Objects›Paper | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Table
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Chickens/roosters
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Time›Routine
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ten Commandments
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Place›Blacksmith shop | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Environment: Place›Jail | Public›Street | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat | Verbal›Warning
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Year›May
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wet clothes
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›May
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: 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: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Environment: Domestic Space›Stable | Domestic Space›Yard | Natural›Dew | Time of Day›Dawn
Environment: Natural›Dew | Natural›Spring | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Morning
Environment: Natural›Ditches | Natural›Spring | Olfactory›Alcohol | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burning | Physical›Digging | Physical›Starting fire
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Magazine | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Razor | Objects›Shaving brush | Objects›Soap
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Bodily›Smoking | Bodily›Watching | Movement›Walking | Physical›Whistling | Verbal›Talking
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Environment: Natural›Woods | Public›Street | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Time of Day›Midnight
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Wee hours
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Movement›Train | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Silence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Stable
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Harness strap
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Embarrassment | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Public›Road
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Archangel Michael | Allusion, Biblical›Jezebel | Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Denial | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Looking away | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Gaining weight | Communication›Note | Emotional›Curious | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Rage | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Fantasy | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Perverse | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Car | Movement›Truck | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Discovering | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Showing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Negro-lover | Religion›Apotheosis | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Crowds
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Public›Street | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Natural›Woods
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Panama hat | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Shirtsleeves | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Basket | Objects›Handkerchief
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Emotional›Confident | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Study
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Eight o'clock a.m.
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Field
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Hungering | Bodily›Kneeling | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Spring | Time of Day›Dawn
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Actions: Emotional›Terror | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Sheriff's office | Public›Restaurant | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Looking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Threat | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Hitting
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Standing | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Dread | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Religion
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Shaving | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Proud | Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Quitting job
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Public›Town Square
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Time of Day›Monday morning
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Communication›Note | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Race›Aunt as term for black woman
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Style›Present tense
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Military›Reconnaissance | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Instructing
Cultural Issues: Nationality›American
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Law›Plead guilty/not guilty | Law›Sheriff
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›August | Weather›Heat
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Walking
Actions: Emotional›Indignation | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gone With the Wind | Narrative›Parentheses
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Auditory›Music | Time of Day›Saturday | Time of Year›May
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Entertainment›Music
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Moral›Secret | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Sunday morning
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Movement›Hitch-hiking | Movement›Running away | Movement›Truck | Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Trying to go home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Communication›Miscommunication | Movement›Walking
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Bribing | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Cultural Issues: Technology›Public telephone
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Wee hours
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Courtroom | Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women as sacred
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Reflection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Lying
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Matchstick
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Monday
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Suitcase
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances | Marital›Honeymoon
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis
Environment: Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Crime›Cattle rustling | Gender›Male rescuer
Themes and Motifs: Money›Reward | Values›Faithfulness
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Objects›Firewood
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Walking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m.
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Religion›Baptist | Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Gender›Female in peril
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Cattle | Determinism›Fated
Environment: Domestic Space›Lot | Time of Day›Sunrise
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Regulations | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cattle | Objects›Rope | Recurring Tropes›Constitutive moment
Environment: Atmospheric›Burgeoning | Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Money›Cash
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Movement›Walking | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Progress›Road traffic
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Progress›Road traffic | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Driven away
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Daybreak
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Music | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Paralysis
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Objects›Wheel chair
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Eight o'clock p.m.
Actions: Movement›Walking | Work›Traveling salesman
Environment: Public›Town Square
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Texas | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Progress›Electrification | Race›Racial resentment | Segregation›Housing
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Communication›And deafness | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Gender›Chivalry | Identity, Cultural›And gender | Materialism›Status
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Chivalry | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock
Environment: Public›Town Square
Themes and Motifs: Character›Coward | Psychological›Rationalizing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Government›Civic officials | Law›Incarceration | Progress›Paving | Race›Disenfranchisement | Religion›Religious faith | Segregation›Housing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Place›Railroad
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Shock | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Realization | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Technology›Jaguar
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Entropy
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Domestic Space›Cellar | Natural›Hills | Place›Decayed house
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Gender›Women
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Zodiac | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Saloon | Public›Sidewalk | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation | Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Sheriff | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Morals›Chivalry | Naming›Nickname | Past›Innocence
Environment: Olfactory›Excrement | Place›Medical practice
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Garter | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition
Cultural Issues: Race›Genealogy | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Solidarity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Domestic Space›Pasture
Cultural Issues: Race›Friendly interaction
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Carriage house | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garage
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Crime›Prostitution
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Public›Post office | Public›Street
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Dressed up | Education›Psychology class | Religion›Hinduism | Ritual›Sati or suttee
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Books | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Fecundity / lushness | Natural›Trees | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall | Weather›Coolness
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Auditory›Water | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Lichen / fungi | Natural›River | Natural›Rocks / stones | Natural›Sky | Public›Bridge
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Figures of Speech›Stone | Symbolism›Reflection
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Whistle | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Place›Rural | Public›Bridge | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Fishing contest | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Progress›Factory | Progress›Streetcar line
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish trout | Money›Prize value | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Fishing rod | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Solitary | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Proverbs | Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Description›Color yellow | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Figures of Speech›Fire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Threads
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Place›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pony | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Train sound | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Otherworldly›Earth / the world | Place›Road | Place›Rural | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Infinity | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Pencil | Figures of Speech›Stencil | Language›Fragments
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bees | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Hills | Natural›Orchard | Natural›Trees | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Swimming | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish | Animals›Insects bees
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fire | Figures of Speech›Threads
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bees | Place›Stone wall
Actions: Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insects butterflies | Supernatural›Spell
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Natural›Trees | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Objects›Wheel | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Cake | Food›Ice-cream | Nationality›Foreigners | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Place›Livery stable | Public›Store
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Education›College | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Law›Marshal | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Public›Post office | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Law›Marshal | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Olfactory›Ammonia | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Place›Livery stable | Public›Post office | Public›Railroad tracks | Public›Street
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Nationality›Foreigners | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Place›Road
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Home | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Grass | Natural›River | Place›Houses | Public›Bridge | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Physical›Nodding | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Economy›Poverty | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Description›Color pink
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›River | Place›Houses | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Running away | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Money›Coin | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation
Environment: Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Natural›Water moving / flowing
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pencil
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Flowers | Natural›Moss | Natural›River | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Natural›Woods | Place›Road
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hair ribbons | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Hair pigtails | Appearance›Invisibility | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Home | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Profound | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›River
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Swimming | Movement›Walking | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Body
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Description›Color brown
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Hogwallow | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Jumping | Physical›Rolling / wallowing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Shirt | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Pneumonia | Sexuality›Learning about
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic | Sexual
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness
Cultural Issues: Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Body›Breast | Home | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University
Environment: Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›River | Public›Bridge | Public›Railroad tracks
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Technology›Car
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›Easter | Weather›Fog | Weather›Rain
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Description›Color blue | Description›Color maroon | Description›Color purple
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Domestic Space›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Religion›Church service | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Ritual›Easter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Bells | Place›Church
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Impairment | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
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: Domestic Space›Backyard
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Cellar | Natural›Cedar trees
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Pneumonia
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Night | Auditory›Howling | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Servants' home | Natural›Creek | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Ditch | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Death›Bones | Death›Response to
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Weather›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sleeping | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Squirrel | Body›Hand / Palm | Home›Home as prison | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Booksatchel | Objects›Bottle | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Domestic
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Weather›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Waiting | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Sneaking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hurried | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Running | Movement›Running away | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Booksatchel | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Recurring Episodes›Benjy accosts schoolgirl
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Walking | Physical›Escape from confinement | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Offering to sell | Economic›Taking without paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flowers | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Guilt | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pushing away
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Eyes | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Health and Illness›Rheumatism
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Public›Academic quad / quadrangle | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m.
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Socks | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education›College | Education›College class or lecture
Themes and Motifs: Body›Foot / Feet | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coffee | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being late / tardiness
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock chiming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Place›Hotel | Public›Restaurant | Public›Street
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Purchase | Movement›Streetcar | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: History›Awareness of / Being in history | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigar | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Public›School | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Scolding | Interaction, Private›Teacher-student | Interaction, Social›Teacher-class of students | Mental›Counting | Mental›Day-dreaming | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Education›Primary school | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | History›Explorers
Themes and Motifs: Body›Brain / mind | Body›Fingers | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Stomach/belly | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Environment: Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Education›Being well read / erudite | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Direction east | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Time of Day›Midday
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Bathing suit | Clothes›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Politics›City government | Politics›Election | Sexuality›Attractiveness | War›Confederate Army
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Communal narrative
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Changing relationships | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Puberty
Relationships: Familial›Cohesion | Familial›Mother-daughter
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Communication›Car horn | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Movement›Car | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Apology
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Religion›Church service
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Cicero
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dressed up | Clothes›Hat
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Body›Eyes | Home›Home as prison
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief | Psychological›Repression
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge
Themes and Motifs: Death›Animal Dog | Death›Bones
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Entertainment›Football
Relationships: Social›Social organizations
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Physical›Being pursued | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Region›Hapless Yankees | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hickahala bottom
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Hotel | Public›Street | Time of Day›Eleven o'clock | Weather›Heat
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Gun
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Intertextuality›Faulkner text