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Cultural Issues: Violence Ambush

Parent Term

  • Violence

Sibling Terms

  • Accident
  • Assault
  • By police
  • Castration
  • Child abuse
  • Cyclical
  • Domestic
  • Drunken brawling
  • Dueling
  • Gendered
  • Imagined
  • Implied shooting
  • Interracial
  • Killing animal
  • Language
  • Lynching
  • Male-female
  • Mistaken for sexual assault
  • Rape
  • Sexual
  • Shooting
  • Torture

Tagged Events

As I Lay Dying, 237 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Delayed revelation