Aesthetics: Narrative
Child Terms
- Adage
- African-American folk sayings
- Alternative story
- Anti-climax
- Anticipation
- Chronological enjambment
- Collaborative narration
- Commentary
- Communal narrative
- Conjectural narration
- Contested
- Conversation with oneself
- Cyclical
- Delayed revelation
- Epiphany
- Fantasy
- First-person
- First-person passim
- First-person passim throughout section
- First-person plural passim
- First-person vernacular
- First-person vernacular passim
- Foreshadowing
- Frame
- Free indirect discourse
- Gaps
- Imagined conversation
- Indeterminacy
- Irony
- Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
- Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
- Narrative anomaly
- Narrative shift
- Origin
- Parentheses
- Pause
- Perspective
- Present-time reference
- Quotation as thought
- Reconstructed
- Repetition
- Reported narration
- Reported narration passim
- Reported narration passim in section
- Resumption of sentence after interruption
- Revision
- Revisionary
- Second-person directed
- Self-correction
- Self-Reflective
- Stream of consciousness narration
- Summary
- Suspense
- Temporal discontinuity
- Temporal projection
- Theatrical effect
- Under oath
- Unreliable narrator
- Withholding
Sibling Terms
Tagged Events
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Frame
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Place›Farm | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Olfactory›Food | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Day›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Explorers | Narrative›Frame
Cultural Issues: Progress›Requirements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Interaction, Social›Frontier life
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marketing
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Napoleon | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Named for historical figure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Government›Secrecy
Aesthetics: Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Law›Sheriff | Mass Media›Telephone | Race›Etiquette | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›Etiquette | Social›Paternalism
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Death | Objects›Corpse | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injury | Nationality | War›Prisoner
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tobacco | Philosophical›Human nature
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Antony and Cleopatra | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Armistice Day | Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Place›Smokehouse | Place›Wellhouse | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Play›Historical recreation | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Friendship›Childhood friends | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Companions
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated | Natural›Cedar trees
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
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
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal issue
Themes and Motifs: Values›Justice | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
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
Environment: Public
Actions: Perceptual
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Communal narrative
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype mule
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft | Government›Audit | Law›Warrant | Politics›City government
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Public›Post office | Time of Day›Daytime
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Time of Year›August | Time of Year›January
Actions: Bodily›Shaking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Barnstorming
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Middle
Themes and Motifs: Body›Appearance-plain
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Intergenerational›Female
Aesthetics: Narrative›Indeterminacy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Penitentiary | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Crime›Manslaughter
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Jailbreak | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Quotation as thought
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Quotation as thought
Environment: Time of Day›Noon | Weather›Heat
Actions: Emotional›Indecision
Aesthetics: Narrative›Quotation as thought
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Gender›Traits | Law›Execution | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Division | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Expenses
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Quotation as thought
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Music
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Eyes | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Imitation | Narrative›Imagined conversation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Quotation as thought
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Familial›Uncertain relationship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration passim
Actions: Work›Traveling salesman
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Work clothes
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Birmingham, Alabama | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›Library | Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›First-person passim
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Objects›Compass | Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
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
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Mental›Realization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
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
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
Aesthetics: Narrative›Present-time reference
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mosquitoes | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Past›Recent past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Domestic Space›Confined living quarters | Place›Grocery | Place›Vacant lot
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Sexuality›Appearance of
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
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
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Legal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective | Narrative›Temporal projection
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: Education›Mentorship
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Railroad tracks | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Violent›Killing of animals
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer | Time of Year›Winter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Cultural Issues: Region›Lost Cause | War›Unity
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Relationships: Romantic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Command
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Movement›Boat | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Perceptual›Seeing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Compass | Values›Good conduct
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Epiphany
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Education›Need to be educated | Identity, Cultural›Mankind | Progress›Education
Themes and Motifs: Values›Moral authority
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conversation with oneself
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Hunting›Slave hunting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conversation with oneself
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Obesity
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Slipper | Psychological›Obsession
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Work›Farming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Actions: Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Hunting›Fox hunting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deaf
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Language›Grammatically incorrect | Narrative›Reported narration
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Identity, Personal›Soldier | Politics›Voting | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering passim
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Conflict
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shawl | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Region›Lost Cause
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
Actions: Emotional›Embarrasment | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Movement›Running away | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Reproduction
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›And detective plot | Narrative›Suspense
Actions: Violent›Domestic violence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Aesthetics: Narrative›Revisionary
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Justice | Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Cultural Issues: Government›Taxes, local | Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reconstructed
Environment: Auditory›Confused din
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Narrative›Communal narrative
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Excitement | Physical›Bathing
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Child-adult
Actions: Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Character›Blackguard
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›Fall | Weather›Rain
Actions: Hunting
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Relationships: Ancestral›Indian | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Tracking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anti-climax
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Amputation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›Siblings
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Clothes›Shoes | Food›Race | Mass Media›Magazines
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
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
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Emotional›Anger
Cultural Issues: Food›Race | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Place›Sawmill | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Milking | Domestic›Nursing | Domestic›Washing | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Lying | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Rural poverty
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Goat | Naming›False name | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Education | Health and Illness›Deaf | Mass Media›Radio | War›Aerial combat | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Movement›Running away
Themes and Motifs: Morals
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Conflict | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Gossip | Emotional›Hero worship | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Objects›Scythe
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Actions: Communication›Writing | Movement›Surrey
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Community›Social life | Death›Burial | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Loom | Figures of Speech›Skull | Figures of Speech›Stone | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Respectability | Class›White trash | Crime›Murder | History›Stealing Indian land | Region›Reconstruction | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Civil War | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Beelzebub | Allusion, Historical›Davis, Jefferson | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Agamemnon | Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Pyramus and Thisbe | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Jackal | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Tone›Shift
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Class
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Psychological›Peace | Supernatural›Eternity
Relationships: Friendship | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes | Race›Colorism | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Narrative›Revision | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | War›Civil War
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Confederate uniform | War›Civil War
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Story-telling
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling | Time›Being in time
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Narrative›Irony
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Insulting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Uncertain
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Naming›Importance of naming | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ancient Greek Chorus | Narrative›Revision
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Walking
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Narrative›Gaps
Relationships: Familial
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Economy›Wealth | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Ethnicity›Language barrier
Aesthetics: Language | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Emotional›Resignation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fire | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Writing | Economic›Scheming | Mental›Calculation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Education
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Art›Objet d'art | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Lancelot | Allusion, Literary›Romance | Narrative›Perspective
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Waistcoat | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dress | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Community›Decoration Day | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Medal | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Premarital
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Realization
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Steamboat | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›September
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Silence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Home›Estranged | Story-telling›Collaborative
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Home›Estranged | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Drawing room
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Body›Skin | Character›Naivety | Home›Homecoming | Story-telling›Collaborative | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Suppression / trying not to think
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Race›Miscegenation | War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Interracial | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence | Slavery›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Wound
Relationships: Familial›Interracial | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Disorientation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Interracial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Enlistment | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative anomaly
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Revision | Narrative›Unreliable narrator
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Revision
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›Richmond, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Retreat
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Relationships: Familial
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Emotional›Longing
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Communication›Messenger
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
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
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: Religion›Apotheosis | Religion›God
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Haunting | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Intergenerational
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Trauma | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Narrative›Anti-climax
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Meaning›Mystery | Past
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Health and Illness›Obesity
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Communication›Writing | Legal›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Moth | Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Health and Illness›Fever | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Creation | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Past | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Physical›Discovering
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Futility | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Going to war
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Priapus | Figures of Speech›Sacrifice | Narrative›Conjectural narration
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: Moral›Praying | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Listening
Cultural Issues: Religion›Consolation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Psychological›Madness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Mass Media›Telephone | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Burial | Death›Respect | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anti-climax
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Self-justifying
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-sister
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
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›Collaborative narration | Narrative›First-person passim | Style›Cubism
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Obesity
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal projection
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Accident
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Taste | Mass Media›Magazines | War›Peace
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Grave
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Experience
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
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 Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Free indirect discourse
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injury | War›Wound
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Cultural Issues: War›World War I | War›Wound
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Boots | Health and Illness›Deaf | History›Prohibition
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Objects›Books | Objects›Keys | Objects›Locks | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Atmospheric›Oppressive | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia | War›Return from war
Actions: Communication›Sending mail
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Cultural Issues: Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Hot-air balloon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Poisoning
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Character›Violent
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Emotional›Impatience
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Suspense
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Race›Race as a form of behavior
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Movement›Truck
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Aesthetics: Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Narrative›Revisionary
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hollywood | Narrative›Contested
Aesthetics: Narrative›Contested | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Created by characters
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Theatrical effect
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Aesthetics: Narrative›Theatrical effect
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Theatrical effect
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Religion›Social welfare as substitute
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Values›Imagination
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Scheming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education | Progress›Building structure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Values›Durability
Aesthetics: Narrative›Present-time reference
Environment: Auditory›Unseen voice | Public›Court
Actions: Legal›Pronouncing sentence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Death›Death sentence | Death›Murder
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Theatrical
Cultural Issues: Economy›Civic boosterism | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Promotional
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Napoleon | Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Aesthetics: Narrative›Indeterminacy
Actions: Military›Destruction of enemy property
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Texts›Civic records | Texts›Military reports
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Swearing | Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Aesthetics: Narrative›Under oath | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Aesthetics: Narrative›Irony | Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Themes and Motifs: Time›Continuity
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Place›Livery stable |