Aesthetics: Description Character portrait
Parent Term
Tagged Events
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
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Complexion | Body›Eyes | Body›Face
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
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
Environment: Natural›Back country
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Law›Pardon | Race›Native American
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Communication›Sending mail | Play›Prank
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend | Public›Store | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
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
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
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Hills | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Gender›Masculinity | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Intertextuality›Embedded text, lettering
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Time of Year›Fall | Weather›Heat
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic
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
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
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
Environment: Place›Hunting camps
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Elite | Race›Genealogy | Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
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
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Electrification
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Law›Wanted poster
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Environment: Public›Pioneer settlement
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Work›Driving
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Homelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Telegraph
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
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
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tie | Sexuality›Learning about | Technology›Car
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Color gray | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Public›Blacksmith
Actions: Work›Sharpening
Cultural Issues: Race›Black property ownership
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait