Cultural Issues: Crime Murder
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- And race
- Arson
- Blackmail
- Bootlegging
- Breaking and entering
- Bribe
- Car theft
- Cattle rustling
- Commercial sexual exploitation
- Drug addiction
- Embezzlement
- Extortion
- Forgery
- Fratricide
- Gambling
- Grave robbing
- Horse theft
- Innocence
- Interruption
- Kidnapping
- Looting
- Making whisky
- Manslaughter
- Moonshining
- Numbers
- Penalty for
- Prevention
- Prostitution
- Rape
- Sedition
- Theft
- Treason
- Vagrancy
- Vigilantism
- Voter fraud
- Waistcoat
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Crime›Murder | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suspicious | Naming›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Urban | Crime›Murder | Government›Demographics | History›Great Migration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Art›Sculpture | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hair | Body›Straightened hair | Texts›Census
Environment: Place›Newspaper office | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Obesity | Law›Execution | Mass Media›Newspaper
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Chicago | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Numbers | 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 | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Expenses
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Quotation as thought
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Law›Alienating
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Law›Alienating
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Shotgun | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Frogs
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Movement›Mule
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Language | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
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
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Summary
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
Environment: Place›Newspaper office | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Obesity | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Telegram
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Chicago | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Economic›Buying timber | Legal›Standing guard | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Driving | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Entertainment›Baseball
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Race›Race as a form of behavior
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Instructing
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Collaborative
Cultural Issues: Crime›Kidnapping | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Popeye's execution | Tone›Ironic
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Burial | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Romantic›Infidelity
Aesthetics: Narrative›Under oath | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Race›Subverting a stereotype
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
Environment: Domestic Space›Paddock
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Crime›Making whisky | Crime›Murder | Entertainment›Horse race
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Chicago | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder | Technology›Car | Violence›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Hearse | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Gender›Marriage | Government›Voting rights | Law›Abuse of office | War›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Gaps | Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Environment: Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | War›Reconstruction
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Sartoris builds railroad
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Skirt | Crime›Murder | Gender›Masculine woman | Progress›Regional | Region›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Upliftment | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hawkhurst | Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Gender›Southern woman | Sexuality›Desire | War›Civil War consequences
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve