Environment: Time of Year Christmas
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- April
- April Fool's
- August
- Between harvesting and planting
- Between planting and harvesting
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas, figuratively
- Confederate Decoration Day
- Corn planting time
- December
- Easter
- Fall
- February
- Friday
- Harvest
- Hunting season
- Indian Summer
- January
- July
- July Fourth
- June
- Juneteenth
- Laid-by season
- Lunar month / cycle
- March
- May
- Mid-week
- Monday
- Month of brides
- New Year
- November
- October
- Planting time
- Quail season
- Saturday
- September
- Spring
- Summer
- Sunday
- Thanksgiving
- Thursday
- Tuesday
- Valentine's Day
- Wednesday
- Winter
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Body›Face
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Communication›Silence | Communication›Writing | Physical›Travel
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
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: 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
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Religion›Sacrilege | Ritual›Christmas gift game
Themes and Motifs: Money›Nickel coin
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Mammy-child
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Profanity
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | 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
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre | Narrative›Reported narration | Tone›Sarcastic
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: 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
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Double standard
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Character›Blackguard
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Place›Outlaw country | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Migration›Intraregional migration | War›Civil War consequences
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Environment: Place›Sawmill | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›New Year | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Snow
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: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
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: 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: Time of Year›Christmas
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative anomaly
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Engagement
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Exile
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Values›Loyalty
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Frost
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Construction | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Ethnicity›Scottish / Scots | Race›Black stereotype
Environment: Atmospheric›Grayness | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Psychological›Disembodiment | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Character›Coward | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances
Environment: Place›Country vs city | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Progress›Consumerism | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Race›Stereotype: smell
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Exile
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Olfactory›Trees | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Year›Christmas
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›July Fourth | Time of Year›Juneteenth | Time of Year›New Year | Time of Year›Thanksgiving
Actions: Agricultural›Milking a cow | Legal›Bailing out | Work›Yard work
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Hangover | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss | Progress›Electrification | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Birth defect
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Education›Rural school
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Planting time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold
Environment: Place›Penitentiary | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Christmas card
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Penitentiary | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service | Religion›Relationship with God | Religion›Sect
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Christmas card
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Environment: Place›Cotillion Club | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Education›University of Mississippi
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Death›Of parent | Home›Improvements | Money›Ill-gotten
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Hunting›Quail hunting | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Holiday dinner
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female in peril | History›Communism | History›Spanish Civil War | War›As educational
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Alcohol›Wine | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Tie | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Spring
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Recreation
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp | Natural›Hills | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Crib / Cradle | Objects›Fire | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Place›Barn | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Music | Public›Church | Public›Church steeple | Public›Store | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | History›Prohibition
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Objects›Flowers
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pigs | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flowers | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Firelight | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Running | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Wishing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Movement›Car | Physical›Repair | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Destructive behavior
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ha ha ha | Tone›Humorous | Typography/Orthography›All caps | Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Trunk
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Year›Christmas
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Chivalry | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: War›Homefront | War›Profiting from war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Character›Coward | Character›Opportunism
Environment: Place›Outlaw country | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Olfactory›Gunpowder | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Corpse | Death›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Unfamiliar place | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›February | Time of Year›New Year | Weather›Cold | Weather›Frost | Weather›Snow
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Ducks | Animals›Geese | Animals›Mules | Time›Duration of time | Time›Measuring time
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Food›Cake | Slavery›Segregation of space
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›September
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Order | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering