Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures Return home

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"A Courtship", 362 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Crime›Murder | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suspicious | Naming›Renaming
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
"A Justice", 348 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Without words
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"A Justice", 348 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Food›Candy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Naming›Indian name
"Ad Astra", 417 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Life after graduation | Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Twins | Intergenerational›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
"All the Dead Pilots", 527 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Humiliation | Movement›Sneaking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Education›Flight school | Identity, Personal›Mistaken identity | War›Demotion | War›Military reassignment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England
"All the Dead Pilots", 528 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Communication›Censorship | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | War›Casualties of war | War›Cost of war | War›Homefront | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Physical disability | Death | Objects›Parcel | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough | Diction›Racist term | Language›Slang, military
"Ambuscade", 16 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
"Appendix: Compson", 343 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
"By the People", 88 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Going to war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Extended family
"Centaur in Brass", 165 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Brass
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
"Go Down, Moses", 260 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Numbers | Gender›Traits | Law›Execution | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Division | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Expenses
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Quotation as thought
"Go Down, Moses", 262 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Heat
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Political solidarity | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Mass Media›Advertising | Mass Media›Newspaper | Progress›Trains | Race›Segregation | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming | Money›Expenses | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›"Wait"
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
"Go Down, Moses", 263 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh | Allusion, Historical›Roman senator | Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals | Language›Call and response | Narrative›Quotation as thought | Symbolism›Shared humanity | Typography/Orthography›Square brackets
"Go Down, Moses", 263 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Corpse | Money›Collecting money | Money›Expenses
"Go Down, Moses", 266 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Quotation as thought
"Hair", 142 (Event)
Actions: Work›Barbering | Work›Quitting job
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 157 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Laws | Clothes›And class
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Values›Success
"Knight's Gambit", 158 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›New car
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
"Knight's Gambit", 158 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 158 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 158 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›And inheritance
"Knight's Gambit", 159 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Technology›Electricity | Technology›Running water
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Bookishness
"Knight's Gambit", 159 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Renting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 168 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 170 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 242 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Cost of war | War›Unity | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Knight's Gambit", 253 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Train
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 370 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Satisfaction
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 377 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Heartbeat | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Metaphorical elephant | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Shadows
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 381 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Invented
"Pantaloon in Black", 248 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
"Raid", 57 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Praying
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
"Retreat", 32 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Gun
"Shall Not Perish", 112 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
"Smoke", 5 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Domestic violence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Inherited traits | Inheritance›Property
"The Unvanquished", 83 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"There Was a Queen", 729 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
"Two Soldiers", 82 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Worry | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling | Social›Neighbor
"Two Soldiers", 99 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Sadness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
"Vendee", 116 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Defeat | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
"Wash", 538 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War consequences | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward
Absalom, Absalom!, 127 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 151 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Face | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 154 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Tombstone
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains | Allusion, Geographical›Gettysburg | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 166 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Absalom, Absalom!, 213 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Absalom, Absalom!, 217 (Event)
Actions: Military›Enlistment | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Tombstone | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Recurring Episodes›General Compson's military record
Absalom, Absalom!, 221 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham
Absalom, Absalom!, 223 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Shrewdness | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 264 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Steamboat | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 290 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 297 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Running | Bodily›Sweating | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering
Absalom, Absalom!, 47 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Determinism›Fated | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Anticipation | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 48 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Absalom, Absalom!, 73 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Absalom, Absalom!, 82 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Absalom, Absalom!, 83 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Love | Movement›Horse | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Flags in the Dust, 163 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Arcadian | Domestic Space›Architecture | Natural›Trees
Actions: Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Arcadia
Flags in the Dust, 178 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Telegraph
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Of parent
Flags in the Dust, 219 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Health and Illness›Injury
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Free indirect discourse
Flags in the Dust, 308 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Non-human›Decay
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Letter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 357 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Hunting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 376 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Flags in the Dust, 48 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Clothes›Military | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›War | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Fool|Foolishness
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 50 (Event)
Actions: Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Marriage | Gender›War | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Fool|Foolishness
Flags in the Dust, 7 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Identity, Personal›Soldier | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 7 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Go Down, Moses, 143 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Go Down, Moses, 157 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Poisoning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Go Down, Moses, 166 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Breaking camp
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Go Down, Moses, 176 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Time›Awareness of time
Go Down, Moses, 207 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Indomitable
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Go Down, Moses, 267 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Banking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Go Down, Moses, 287 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Inheritance›Property | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Go Down, Moses, 359 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Burial | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Civic›Charity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Intruder in the Dust, 161 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Light in August, 247 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Light in August, 63 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Light in August, 66 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Light in August, 66 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Preaching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife
Requiem for a Nun, 184 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Exile›Post-war
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Hamlet, 215 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Violent›Beating
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Futility›Inability | Objects›Padlock
Relationships: Marital›Conflict
The Hamlet, 237 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Psychological›Denial
The Mansion, 198 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
The Mansion, 224 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bank
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Recurring Episodes›Eula's medallion unveiled | Recurring Episodes›Flem reaches Jefferson | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
The Mansion, 283 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
The Mansion, 41 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Hoe
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
The Reivers , 218 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Natural›Trees
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Race horse | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Responsibility
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 223 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Car
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 292 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Language›Hee hee hee
The Reivers , 292 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Age›Rite of passage
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 320 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Out of ordered place | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes›Door
The Town, 10 (Event)
Actions: Play›Gambling
Cultural Issues: Education›West Point | Politics›Election | War›Spanish American War | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Scar
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cuba
The Town, 127 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Tie | Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe | Politics›Election | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Art›Photograph | Character›Provincialism | Community›Secrecy | Time›Long passage of time
The Town, 7 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
The Town, 7 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
The Unvanquished, 114 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Re-enslavement | Slavery›Self-emancipation | Slavery›Slaves vs masters | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 117 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Moral›Fraud | Moral›Lying | Moral›Praying | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
The Unvanquished, 134 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
The Unvanquished, 184 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Defeat | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 232 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Tradition | Death›Corpse | Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Unvanquished, 35 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
The Unvanquished, 70 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Mother-in-law
The Unvanquished, 71 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Actions: Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Gun
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
The Unvanquished, 8 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Actions: Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Racial
The Unvanquished, 8 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau