Themes and Motifs: Story-telling Communal mythology
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Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Government | Group Mentality›Communal story | History›Civil War | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Community›Local legends | Naming›Renaming | Past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Padlock | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Government›Right of secession
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Interaction, Social›Incarcerating
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Personal›On frontier | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Cultural Issues: Age | Class›Respectability | Gender
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Verbal›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Retelling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Character›Ambitious | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Honor
Relationships: Friendship | Sexual
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Cultural Issues: History
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance | Memory | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Meaning›Mystery | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Verbal›Exaggeration | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Melodrama
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Actions: Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: History›American historical myths
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Communication›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Communal story
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Harpe | Interpretation›Debunking story | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Confederate raid in Memphis
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Genre Conventions›Melodrama | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Tone›Overwrought | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Mental›Contemplation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Actions: Economic›Lending Money
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Cultural Issues: War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Values›Honor