Relationships: Hierarchical Elder-younger

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"A Point of Law", 214 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Conjectural narration
"Retreat", 17 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
"Retreat", 21 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
"The Old People", 205 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Hunting›Teaching
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
"The Old People", 206 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Rabbit hunting | Hunting›Teaching
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
"The Old People", 206 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Emotional›Self-doubt | Hunting›Teaching
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
"The Old People", 209 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Teaching
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
"The Old People", 209 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Hunting›Blowing horn | Hunting›Teaching | Verbal›Honor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer
Relationships: Ancestral›Indian | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
"There Was a Queen", 735 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Sexuality›Harassment
Themes and Motifs: Character›Integrity
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Narcissa's anonymous letters
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Insight | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Responding
Cultural Issues: History
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Memory | Psychological›Motivation | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Environment: Otherworldly | Time of Day›Midday | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Coldness | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Insight | Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Invitation | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Race›Using a Negro as messenger
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ruthless | Objects›Paper | Texts›Letters | Texts›Note
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Withholding | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Place›Houses | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Weather›Heat
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Lace | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Home›Neglect | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Numerous adjectives
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Water | Language›Biblical | Narrative›Self-correction | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 36 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Money›Coin
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Intruder in the Dust, 68 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Ring
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Intruder in the Dust, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wet clothes
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Intruder in the Dust, 70 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Violence›Lynching
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 78 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Olfactory›Smoke
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Rage | Mental›Deduction
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Intruder in the Dust, 84 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Whispering
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Light in August, 123 (Event)
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Guilt | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Stupid
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Light in August, 477 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Proud | Violent›Killing
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
The Mansion, 216 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Poetry
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Social›Mentorship
The Reivers , 174 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Sexual Harassment | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Kiblett, Arkansas | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Heh heh heh | Language›Profanity
The Sound and the Fury, 3 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Public›Golf course | Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Impairment | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Food›Birthday cake | Ritual›Birthday
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Psychological›Learning disability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Narrative›Unreliable narrator
The Sound and the Fury, 58 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Education›Illiteracy | Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Faith | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Philosophical›Luck | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Book of life | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 82 (Event)
Environment: Public›Post office
Actions: Communication›Addressing for mail delivery | Communication›Letter | Communication›Sending mail | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Government›US Post Office
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Sound and the Fury, 82 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Marching | Verbal›Conversation | Work
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, stovepipe | Clothes›Uniform | History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Prejudice›Racism | Ritual›Birthday | Ritual›Commemoration | Slavery›Abolition | War›Civil War | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness | Community›Crowd | Community›Decoration Day | Community›Parade | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flag | Past›Family history
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Italian flag | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Garibaldi, Giuseppe | Diction›Racist term
The Sound and the Fury, 83 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency | Government›Welfare | Prejudice›Racism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
The Sound and the Fury, 91 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 97 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Moral›Deception | Physical›Saluting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Education›Graduation | Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race›Uncle Tom | Ritual›Holiday | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R. | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Community›Columbus Day | Community›Parade | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Luggage | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black | Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Princeton University | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | Allusion, Literary›Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Allusion, Literary›Uncle Tom's Cabin | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Town, 119 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Truck
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
The Unvanquished, 37 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Natural›Orchard | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Dreaming
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Segregation of space | Slavery›White anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 51 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
The Unvanquished, 52 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Shouting
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
The Unvanquished, 53 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tobacco
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger