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"A Justice", 343 (Event)
Environment: Place›Farm
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering passim | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
"A Justice", 345 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Steamboat | Play›Gambling | Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Ruthless | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Reported narration passim in section | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"Ad Astra", 407 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›Simile
"By the People", 86 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Cabin
Actions: Economic›Selling | Movement›Truck
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"By the People", 88 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Group Mentality›Political solidarity
Relationships: Marital›Bachelor
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"Gold Is Not Always", 226 (Event)
Environment: Place›Commisary
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"Gold Is Not Always", 227 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Persuasion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"Gold Is Not Always", 236 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Exhaustion | Emotional›Rage
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Repetition
"Knight's Gambit", 244 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 372 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Body›Eyes | Body›Face
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"Monk", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Power of literature | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Metafictional | Narrative›First-person passim
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Back country
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Monk", 45 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Kinless | Familial›Orphan
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Delayed revelation
"Monk", 46 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"Monk", 55 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Law›Pardon | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Rural vernacular
"Mule in the Yard", 252 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Sending mail | Play›Prank
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"There Was a Queen", 729 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Race›Etiquette
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
"Tomorrow", 102 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend | Public›Store | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Law›Hung jury
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cicadas | Animals›Lightning bugs | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Tomorrow", 90 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Defending | Legal›Recess | Legal›Summation | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Agriculture›Farming life | Law›Eye for an eye | Law›Grand jury | Law›Hearing | Law›Indictment | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Justice | Morals›Responsibility | Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
"Tomorrow", 92 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Law›Hung jury
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Naming›Nickname
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Tone›Humorous
"Tomorrow", 94 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Hills | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Moral›Prohibiting | Movement›Driving | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Gender›Masculinity | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Intertextuality›Embedded text, lettering
"Tomorrow", 95 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Law›Hung jury
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Heidelberg, Germany | Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Collaborative narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›Fall | Weather›Heat
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic
As I Lay Dying, 156 (Event)
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
As I Lay Dying, 170 (Event)
Environment: Public›School
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
As I Lay Dying, 181 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Domestic›Care | Emotional›Gratitude
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Narrative shift | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Taunt
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Buzzards | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 207 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Indomitable
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 214 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Food›Breakfast | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 314 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Psychological›Madness
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 320 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Stopping
Cultural Issues: History›Pre-World War II issues | Race›Miscegenation | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Double entendre
Go Down, Moses, 342 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Northern dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 343 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial spheres | Segregation›Marriage
Relationships: Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 351 (Event)
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Urban | Crime›Murder | Government›Demographics | History›Great Migration | Identity, Cultural›Northerner
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Art›Sculpture | Body›Straightened hair | Texts›Census
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Accent
Go Down, Moses, 352 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Law›Missing person | Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 356 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Sun
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Teaching | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Crime›Murder | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Trial | Mass Media›Newspaper | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Determinism›Genetic
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
The Reivers , 17 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Elite | Race›Genealogy | Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 185 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Alcohol | Olfactory›Ether | Place›Medical practice
Actions: Verbal›Insulting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Ether | Alcohol›Laws | Clothes›Dirty | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Institutional›Doctor-patient
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Language›Haw haw haw
The Reivers , 26 (Event)
Environment: Place›Barn | Weather›Rain
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Electrification
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
The Reivers , 3 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Law›Wanted poster
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
The Reivers , 7 (Event)
Environment: Public›Pioneer settlement
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
The Reivers , 7 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Work›Driving
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Homelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 96 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bordello
Actions: Communication›Telegraph
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gold tooth | Values›Decorum | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 149 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Banking | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 16 (Event)
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
The Town, 190 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Boxing | Work›Mechanic
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie | Sexuality›Learning about | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe
Relationships: Familial›Twins
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Cicero | Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 386 (Event)
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Color gray | Narrative›Anticipation
The Town, 68 (Event)
Environment: Public›Blacksmith
Actions: Work›Sharpening
Cultural Issues: Race›Black property ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait