Environment: Time of Day Night
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Afternoon
- Breakfast
- Dawn
- Daybreak
- Daytime
- Dinner
- Dusk
- Eight o'clock a.m.
- Eight o'clock p.m.
- Eleven o'clock
- Eleven o'clock p.m.
- Evening
- Five o'clock p.m.
- Four o'clock a.m.
- Four o'clock p.m.
- Lunch
- Midday
- Midnight
- Monday
- Monday morning
- Morning
- Nine o'clock a.m.
- Nine o'clock p.m.
- Noon
- One o'clock p.m.
- Pre-dawn
- Saturday
- Saturday evening
- Saturday morning
- Saturday night
- Seven o'clock p.m.
- Six o'clock p.m.
- Six o'clock p.m.
- Sunday
- Sunday morning
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- Supper
- Tea
- Ten o'clock a.m.
- Ten o'clock p.m.
- Three o'clock a.m.
- Twilight
- Two o'clock a.m.
- Two o'clock p.m.
- Wee hours
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Swearing | Emotional›Relief | Hunting›Racoon hunting | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Walking | Play›Gambling | Play›Joking around | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Hay | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music
Environment: Time of Day›Evening | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Falling | Interaction, Social›Competition | Movement›Racing | Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Interracial
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Place›Cottonfield | Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Whippoorwills | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Objects›Still
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry | Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
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
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Moral›Prohibiting | Movement›Following
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Crime›Bootlegging
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Food | War›Casualties of war | War›Demotion | War›Deployment | War›Military reassignment | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Futility
Aesthetics: Language›Slang, military
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Disguise | Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Character›Hubris | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Genre Conventions›Parable | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Mule | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Command | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Animals›Whippoorwills | Home | Objects›Candle | Philosophical›Ethics | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Abusive | Marital›Conflict
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Grief | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Listening
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Kinship
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass | Psychological›Manipulation
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype mule
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›First-person
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Gossip
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›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Place›Shrubbery | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Silence | Emotional›Rebelliousness | Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness
Relationships: Interracial›As rebellious
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
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
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Economy›Evaluate exchange value
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Mules | Objects›Flashlight | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Shooting | Movement›Train | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Hunting›Waiting | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Scamming | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Domestic | Labor›Farming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Perceptual›Dowsing | Physical›Digging | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Folk customs
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Moral›Confession | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Pneumonia
Environment: Place›Gas station | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Alibi | Law›Eyewitness
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›January
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Institutional›Military
Environment: Time of Day›Night
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
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Sadness | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | History›Awareness of / Being in history | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Ritual
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Interpreting tracks | Physical›Pursuit
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Physical›Bathing
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Work›Construction
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
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: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister | Institutional›Military | Romantic›Fiance
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Underlining
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Ditch | Place›Lane | Time of Day›Night
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: 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 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 Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Play›Fireworks
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
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: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Ambush | Physical›Holding | Play›Fireworks | Verbal›Message | Verbal›Promising | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Physical›Carrying | Physical›Running | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Vengeance
Themes and Motifs: Death›Denial | Death›Moving a dead body
Aesthetics: Narrative›Child's perspective
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Singing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Misunderstanding
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Verbal›Conversation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Auditory›Howling | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Health and Illness›Doctoring | War›Draft
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Government›Depression-era programs | War›Going to war | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Philosophical›Individualism | Values›Family values
Environment: Place›Sawmill | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Character›Responsibility
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Education | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Radio | War›Aerial combat | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Education›Primary school | Global›Pacific Ocean
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Hushing | Work›Chopping wood
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Age›Youth | Nationality›Japanese | War›Patriotism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Home | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Crime›Breaking and entering
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Environment: Public›Drugstore | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Crime›Breaking and entering
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Actions: Emotional›Excitement | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Aviation clothes | Clothes›Cap | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Goggles | Clothes›Shirt | Entertainment›Barnstorming | Race›Black foresight | Region›The West
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›California | Description›Eyes
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Comforting | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Loyalty | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Technology›Race
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Murder | Work›Law enforcement
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Moral›Prohibiting | Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Requesting | Violent›Homicide
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Law›Inheritance refusal | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Character›Pride | Death›Murder | Determinism›Fated | Determinism›Lack of choice | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Objects›Corpse | Past›Past in present | Past›Traumatic | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Dysfunctional | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Wedding | Romantic›Death | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Anaphora | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Summary | Style›List | Tone›Elegiac
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Story-telling
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Sneaking | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Religion›Providence | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Determinism›Fated | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Stable | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Running | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Wrestling | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Vowing | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Maternal impulse | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Interracial violence | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
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›Cold | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Community›Posse | Death›Corpse | Objects›Scythe | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash charges posse
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Environment: Place›Jefferson | Place›River-bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Food›Scarcity | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Time›Awareness of time | Values›Determination
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Origin
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Mud | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Language barriers | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Building structure | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Group Mentality›Community collective | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Alligators | Animals›Dogs | Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Local legends | Objects›Bricks | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
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
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›June | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Torch-light | Place›Tavern | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual›Wedding | Slavery
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Fire
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Interaction, Social›Church | Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Race›Chickasaw | Ritual›Wedding
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Atmospheric›Smoke | Atmospheric›Torch-light | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Interaction, Social›Social protest | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Protection | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Shouting | Violent
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Ritual›Wedding | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Style›Long sentence
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Appearance of
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Guilt | Moral›Confession | Moral›Forgiveness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Listening | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Religion›Consolation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Psychological›Madness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Physical›Discovering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Recurring Tropes›Secret
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: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Environment: Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Toys | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Storm
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment
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: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
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›Firelight | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Restlessness | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Chivalry | Race›Friendly interaction
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Philosophical›Nihilism | Psychological›Disembodiment
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Fatalism | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
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: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Planning | Perceptual›Listening
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Flight
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Oppressive | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›English / British | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Economy›Industrialization | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Body›Moustache | Character›Ambitious | Futility | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Marital›Divorce
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Competition | Economic›Scheming | Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Emotional›Rage
Cultural Issues: Crime›Moonshining | Economy›Moonshine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Jailbreak
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Objects›Metal detector
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Explaining
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Home›Trying to go home
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Morality | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Bodily›Running | Movement›Car | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moving a dead body
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Objects›Still
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Year›May
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›May
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Deduction | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing | Crime›Innocence
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Race›Division
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Conversation
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Surprise | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Physical›Digging
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Falling | Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Singing | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Panting | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Asphyxiation | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Private›Sexual | Physical›Sleeping
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Sexual
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: Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Underclothes, male
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Environment: Auditory›Unseen voice | Auditory›Voices | Olfactory›Smelling black | Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Environment: Natural›Woods | Public›Street | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Terror | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Bodily›Weakness | Emotional›Peace | Physical›Eating | Physical›Emptying | Verbal›Calling by name | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Lying
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Stable | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Physical›Climbing/descending rope
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Physical›Climbing | Physical›Waiting | Physical›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Menstruation | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Virginity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Women | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Physical›Undressing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Romeo and Juliet
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Undressing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting
Cultural Issues: Food›Candy | Race›Racial identity
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Romeo and Juliet | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Holding | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Car | Physical›Dancing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Hat
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Stable | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Archangel Michael | Allusion, Biblical›Jezebel | Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Public›School | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Sitting | Moral›Stealing | Movement›Horse | Physical›Climbing stairs | Physical›Turning away | Verbal›Calling by name | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Taunt
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Drinking | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Overhearing
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Private›Sexual | Physical›Struggling
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Public›Restaurant | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Friday | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Mental›Knowing | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Telling
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Killing | Violent›Killing in war | Violent›Vengeance
Cultural Issues: Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›French | Race›Mixed race | War›Civil War | War›Civil War consequences
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›House | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Tuesday
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Windows
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›December | Weather›Rain
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Moralizing | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Screaming
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Monday
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Creating an Other
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics
Themes and Motifs: Death›Moment of | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Sexual
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Teasing
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Exasperation | Physical›Camping | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shawl | Entertainment›Popular culture
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Comedy
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Auditory›Insect sounds | Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Sexual | Social›Assailant-victim
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Campsite | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Natchez Trace | Narrative›Indeterminacy
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Animals›Dogs | Objects›Bed | Objects›Bowl | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Curtains | Objects›Dresser | Objects›Furniture | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Pitcher | Objects›Slop jar | Objects›Towel | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Male gaze
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Hiding | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Morals›Justice | Past›Quest to recover
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Speakeasy | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Entertainment›Dancing | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Art›Jazz music
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Garment female
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
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: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Moral›Exploitation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female body | Gender›Reproduction | Sexuality›Puberty
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Parents-children | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Friday
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Football
Environment: Place›Road | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Gender›Male rivalry
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Verbal›Warning
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injury
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Olfactory›Milk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Bodily›Waking
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-cow
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Death›Spousal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Folk superstition
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as presence
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Natural›Trees | Public›Logging trail | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›September
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Ambivalence | Moral›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing | Crime›Prostitution | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Money›Disdaining money
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jefferson
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing
Environment: Public›Logging trail | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Falling | Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Searching
Environment: Olfactory›Decomposition | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Animal attack on human
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Spring
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Death›Imagined | Objects›Pear tree
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Texas
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space | Labor›Racialized | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›All caps
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Helen of Troy | Allusion, Mythical›Argos | Allusion, Mythical›Brunhilde
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Folk superstition
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Actions: Bodily›Limping | Economic›Selling a house or place
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Field | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›August
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Dowsing | Physical›Digging | Physical›Finding | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Religion›Folk superstition
Aesthetics: Diction›Hill dialect | Style›Character portrait
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Screaming
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Starlight | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Having sex
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeplessness | Physical›Digging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Calculation | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Progress›Neon lights | Progress›Road traffic
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›City | Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Thanking
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Chaos/Order›Restoring order
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Progress›Road traffic | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Driven away
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Running away
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Miss Quentin runs away
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Progress›Electrification | Race›Racial resentment | Segregation›Housing
Environment: Auditory›Train sound | Auditory›Unseen voice | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Communication›Telegraph | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation | Work›Railroad workers
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Race›Racial resentment
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Train | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Communication›And deafness | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies | Gender›Chivalry | Identity, Cultural›And gender | Materialism›Status
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Chivalry | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Calculation
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration | Materialism›Status | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Supernatural›Superstitions
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›September
Actions: Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›Thursday
Actions: Agricultural›Hay-making | Verbal›Denial
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Crickets | Animals›Grasshoppers | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Natural›Dirt / Earth | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Lying down | Physical›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Freedom | Philosophical›Human experience | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Angel | Allusion, Mythical›Helen | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Race›Hierarchical | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling | Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Backyard | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Language›Profanity
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Saloon | Public›Sidewalk | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Murmur | Olfactory›Urine | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Husbandry | Progress›Infrastructure | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Values›Virtue
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Overwrought | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Respect | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Stabbing
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Language›French | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Defiance | Moral›Reform | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Whispering
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution | Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual›Prostitute-Client
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Socks | Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Naming›Alias | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Hunting›Fishing | Mental›Contemplation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Legal›Locking up
Cultural Issues: Law›Corruption | Law›Informal arrangement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Physical›Praying
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Values›Determination
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Banishment
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Clothes›Sunday clothes
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Flatulence | Movement›Car
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›May
Cultural Issues: Food | Land-Use›Corn farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Loft | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Lust | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Light | Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Heartbeat | Auditory›Insect sounds | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Creek | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›Sand | Natural›Sky | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Heart beating | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Lying | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Starting over | Physical›Touching | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Skirt | Clothes›Wet clothes | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Insects crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Body›Knee | Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Objects›Fence | Objects›Willow tree | Objects›knife | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Romantic›Sexual | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Island of silence | Figures of Speech›Mirror | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›no no | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Cleansing power of water | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Night | Auditory›Howling | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Servants' home | Natural›Creek | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Ditch | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Death›Bones | Death›Response to
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Disbelief | Mental›Misunderstanding | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Comforter | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Character›Independence | Character›Innocence | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Objects›Furniture | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Courage
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling death | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Studying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Sick room | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Nightgown | Clothes›Undressing | Health and Illness›Measles
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Sick room | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Undressing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Apartment | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Natural›River | Public›Chapel | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Emotional›Stubbornness | Moral›Condoning | Moral›Forgiveness | Movement›Boat | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›noblesse-oblige | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Gender›Lady | Region›The South | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Character›Regal | Naming›French noble names | Naming›Long name | Time›Return to present time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cambridge, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Mason and Dixon Line | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Destiny
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›McCarron ambushed
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Entertainment›Movies | Law›Burglary
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Education›Law school | Entertainment›Football
Environment: Place›Power Plant | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Labor›Industrial
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Emotional›Frustration | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Killing of animals | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses | Symbolism›Fire
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Barnes, Djuna | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Tone›Elegiac
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Trading | Mental›Believing | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Economy›Banking | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Denial | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Two o'clock a.m.
Actions: Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Threatening
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Whispering
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Environment: Place›Cotillion Club | Public›Opera house | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›December
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Dancing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Handy, W.C. | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Staring | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Vengeful | Physical›Dancing | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›January | Weather›Cold
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Fear | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Invitation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Texts›Love letter
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Miscommunication | Moral›Fraud | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Profiting from war | War›Union Army
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Stock trading
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Agricultural›Livestock care | Moral›Secret
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Discipline
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Bonaparte, Napoleon | Allusion, Historical›Coke upon Littleton | Allusion, Historical›Mississippi Reports | Allusion, Literary›Cooper, James Fenimore | Allusion, Literary›Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Literary›Josephus, Flavius | Allusion, Literary›Koran | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Allusion, Literary›Taylor, Jeremy | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Decayed house | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Boots | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shabby | Clothes›Shirt | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement | War›Union Army
Environment: Place›Haystack | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Reunion | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Homefront | War›Union Army
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Reading
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Following | Perceptual›Surveillance
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Movement›Following
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Objects›Bible | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Military | Slavery›Minstrelsy | War›Capture | War›Union Army
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Destruction | War›Displacement | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Migration | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | History›Awareness of / Being in history | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Typography/Orthography›Dots