Environment: Atmospheric
Child Terms
- Arcadian
- Bleak
- Burgeoning
- Candlelight
- Chaos
- Claustrophobic
- Cold
- Creepy
- Crowded
- Dangerous
- Dark
- Dereliction
- Devastation
- Doom
- Dread
- Dust
- Familiar
- Fire
- Firelight
- Full moon
- Gloom
- Grayness
- Hallucinated
- Harvest moon
- Haunted
- Heat
- Ice floes / iceberg
- Light
- Meteor shower
- Moonlit
- Night
- Oppressive
- Peaceful
- Racialized
- Sexual
- Spectral
- Spiritual
- Squalor
- Starlight
- Sterile
- Stillness
- Streetlamp
- Sunlight
- Thunder
- Torch-light
- Twinkling
- Unfamiliar place
- Wetness
- Wind
Sibling Terms
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Government | Group Mentality›Communal story | History›Civil War | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Community›Local legends | Naming›Renaming | Past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Grayness | Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Sunset
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Poker
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Indian mound
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Interaction, Social›Competition | Movement›Running | Physical›Rescuing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male body | Gender›Male rivalry
Relationships: Social›Homoerotic | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Auditory›Postal horn | Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: Government›National authority
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Laid-by season
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
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›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Place›Jefferson
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city | Progress›Racialized
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Place›Houses | Public›Golf course
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernization | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Public›Store
Actions: Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Cultural Issues: Age›Agelessness | Age›Spinsterhood | Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Class›Social decline | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Popular magazines
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Natural›Woods
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Otherworldly›Beyond living world passim
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Sunset
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›April
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Disguise
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype mule
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›New Year
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Law›Warrant | Politics›City government
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Prejudice›Racism | Prejudice›White supremacy
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Prejudice›Racism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Breathing | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Moon
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Mass Media›Fantasy | Mass Media›Movies
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Silence | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Magazines | Violence›Domestic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Labor›Translation | Law›Missing person | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Texts›Bible | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Sibling | Interracial›Networks
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Money›Collecting money | Money›Expenses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Country vs city
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Flashlight
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Torch-light | Natural›Creek bottom
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Place›Decayed house | Place›Decayed plantation
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Digging | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Law›Bill of sale | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Race›Black property ownership | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Coin | Psychological›Manipulation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Voices
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flashlight | Objects›License Plate
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Conrad, Joseph
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Stars | Place›Railroad log line | Time of Day›Pre-dawn
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Body›Eyes | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Will to endure
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Gun
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Place›Decayed plantation | Place›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Place›Decayed plantation
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Dowsing | Perceptual›Spying
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Morals›Chivalry
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Place›Penitentiary
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Place›Cottonfield | Place›Field | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Sidewalk
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Dinner
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Woods | Place›Quarters | Place›Road | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Restlessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Compass | Values›Good conduct
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Epiphany
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Movement›Boat
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Race›Solidarity | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Prejudice | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Stereotype sweat | Race›Stereotype: smell
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Afternoon
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Architecture
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Fox
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Hunting›Slave hunting
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Ritual
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Running | Hunting›Fox hunting | Hunting›Slave hunting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Drum
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Sunset
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Natural›Creek bottom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition
Cultural Issues: Food
Themes and Motifs: Death›Indian burial practices
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Race›Stereotype: smell
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread
Themes and Motifs: Futility
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Union Army
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Dinner
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Gender›War | War›Defeat | War›Homefront | War›Scorched-earth policy | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Men | Absence/Loss›War | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Handwriting | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Body | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Personal›Soldier | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Death | War›Scorched-earth policy
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Institutional›Military | Romantic›Fiance
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Work›Getting water
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Reproduction | War›Death | War›Women
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Lane
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Ditch | Place›Lane | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Olfactory | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell
Relationships: Hierarchical›Child as authority
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Singing | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Stalking | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Terror
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Moral›Stealing | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Escape from confinement | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Winter
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Atmospheric›Grayness | Natural›Trees | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Woodpecker|Lord-to-God | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Natural›Woods | Time of Year›November | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Description›Color green
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Office | Natural›Wilderness | Natural›Woods | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Gender›All-male space | Identity, Personal›Hunter
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Hunting
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Frogs
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Swamp
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Spectral
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Empathy | Movement›Car | Movement›Flat tire | Physical›Wagon|Car maintenance | Physical›Waiting
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Cultural Issues: Economy›Market day
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Hunting
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage | Ritual›Initiation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-deer
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Year›November
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Stock trading
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Region›Hapless Yankees
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Re-arrangements during War
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Decayed house
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Themes and Motifs: Time›Permanence
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Ethnicity›Jewish | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Identity, Cultural›South vs North
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Public›Road
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Place›Country vs city | Public›Highway
Cultural Issues: Technology›Elevator
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›New Year | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Snow
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Grave | Time of Year›Winter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ruthless | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Rape | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Voice
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Buggy
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Thunder | Public›Church
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design | Story-telling›Audience response
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Fire | Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Sound of drums | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Odor
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Weather›Cold
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Exile | Time›Simultaneity of time | Values›Honor | Values›Love
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Premarital
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: War›Bivouac fires | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Communal narrative | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Dawn
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Race | Region›The South | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Perceptual›Tasting
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Gender›Masculine woman | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Death | Home›Homecoming | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Physical›Discovering | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Silence
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poe, Edgar Allan
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›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Body›Mental disability | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Trauma | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Hate
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›Confined living quarters
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Architecture | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Natural›River
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident | Objects›Fish
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Art›Classical Greek | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Comforting
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Hunting and Fishing
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Eyes
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Rage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Accusatory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic | Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Psychological›Trauma
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Storm
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Domestic Space›House | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Economizing
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Auditory›Silence | Olfactory›Sulfur | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain | Weather›Storm
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Neighbor
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Frost
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Race›Black stereotype
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Health and Illness›Headache
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Personification
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Alcohol›Wine | Health and Illness›Amputation | Health and Illness›Anaesthetic | Health and Illness›Headache
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Frogs | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Violence against animals
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Insect sounds
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Segregation
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traditional music
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cerberus | Description›Delayed decoding | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Movement›Car | Work›Law enforcement
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Work›Building structure
Environment: Atmospheric›Arcadian | Natural›Trees
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Cave
Actions: Work›Glassblowing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Artistic creation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›A Midsummer Night's Dream | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Grave
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Memory›Collective memory | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Gun
Aesthetics: Diction›Accent | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Stained glass window
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Sunlight
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Sartoris captures Yankees
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Quietness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Caring | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Reading aloud
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Entertainment›Movies
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Letter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Divorce | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Nickname | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Grayness | Time of Year›December
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Disembodiment | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Oppressive | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Oppressive | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia | War›Return from war
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Exile
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Body›Moustache | Character›Ambitious | Futility | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Industry | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Twins | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Objects›Milk
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Work›Gardening
Environment: Atmospheric›Candlelight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Hosting
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Interaction, Social›Hosting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Gender›Masculinity
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Domestic›Cleaning
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Emotional›Indifference | Movement›Car
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Law›Inheritance
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Olfactory›Must
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Lace | War›Civil War | War›Mexican | War›Spanish American War | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Sword | Past›Family history | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Old Bailey
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sterile
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Growth | Health and Illness›Medical advice | Health and Illness›Obesity | Health and Illness›Quackery | Migration›Work
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Quarters | Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Footprint | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Restlessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Atmospheric›Spiritual
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-deer
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages | Narrative›Epiphany
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›House
Themes and Motifs: Home›Distance from home
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Food›Breakfast | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses | Economy›Poverty | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Canaan | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dereliction | Place›Decayed plantation
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Economic›Lending Money | Verbal›Renunciation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Bill
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present | Recurring Tropes›Doom
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Money›Collecting money
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Natural›Creek
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wet clothes
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Atmospheric›Sexual | Natural›Dew | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Undressing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, male
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Money›Cash
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Legal›Arrest | Verbal›Confession
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Decayed plantation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Sexual | Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Bodily›Asthma | Bodily›Drinking | Interaction, Private›Courting | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Obesity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Snoring | Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place | Place›City | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Sexual | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Bodily›Sleeplessness | Mental›Misunderstanding
Environment: Atmospheric›Racialized | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Race›Segregation | Sexuality›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Honeysuckle | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Fantasizing | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Environment: Atmospheric›Hallucinated
Actions: Mental›Hallucinating
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Sexual symbol
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Public›Street
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Matchstick
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Falling | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Mourning | Emotional›Sadness | Interaction, Social›Partying | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Invitation | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Hat cap | Entertainment›Traditional music | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | Religion›Hymns
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Death›Funeral | Death›Wake | Objects›Coffin
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Ordering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Fire
Actions: Bodily›Defecation | Emotional›Love | Movement›Running away
Aesthetics: Tone›Mock-heroic
Environment: Atmospheric›Squalor | Place›Well|Wellhouse
Themes and Motifs: Art›Sculpture | Futility›Nothing to do
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-cow
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Cultural Issues: Religion›Folk superstition
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as presence
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Year›Indian Summer
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Atmospheric›Bleak | Weather›Ice
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Year›July
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Field
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton