Themes and Motifs: Supernatural
Child Terms
Tagged Events
    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  
  
        Environment:     Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Grayness | Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Sunset  
  
    
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Relationships:     Interracial›Indian-white  
  
      Aesthetics:     Description›Color gray  
      Actions:     Play›Joking around | Play›Prank  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Place  
  
        Actions:     Verbal›Social criticism  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Old age |  Ethnicity›Native American  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Soul / Spirit  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Gate  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Progress›Pace of travel  
  
        Cultural Issues:     Law›Missing person |  Race›White savior  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Insight  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Grandparent-grandchild  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Quotation as thought  
      Environment:     Time of Day›Night  
  
      Actions:     Emotional›Impatience | Perceptual›Dowsing | Physical›Digging | Physical›Searching  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Folk customs  
      Cultural Issues:     Alcohol›Moonshine |  Gender›Marriage |  Race›Racial identity |  Race›Segregated space |  Ritual›Cemetery decorations  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral | Meaning›Profound | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Coworker  
  
      Aesthetics:     Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Spectral | Domestic Space›Kitchen  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting  
  
      Relationships:     Interspecies›Man-dog  
      Environment:     Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon  
  
      Actions:     Hunting›Bird hunting | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization | Movement›Wrong direction | Perceptual›Seeing  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Named bear Ben | Home›In nature | Objects›Compass | Objects›Footprint | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Watch  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Epiphany | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Environment:     Auditory›Dog barking  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Insomnia | Domestic›Cleaning | Mental›Realization  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Crime›Murder |  Identity, Cultural›Heritage |  Prejudice›White supremacy |  Race›Economic basis of racism |  Race›Racial spheres  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Aesthetics:     Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered  
      Actions:     Communication›Gossip | Physical›Whittling  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›African-American folk sayings  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Spiritual  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Rite of passage |  Ritual›Initiation  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness  
  
      Relationships:     Interspecies›Man-deer  
  
        Cultural Issues:     Race›Subverting a stereotype |  Slavery›Violence  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen  
  
      Aesthetics:     Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›House  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Despair | Military›Combat | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Return | Violent›Murder  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Crime›Fratricide |  Gender›Widow |  Gender›Women |  History›Civil War as point of reference |  War›Civil War |  War›Confederate Army  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Character›Pride | Character›Scoundrel | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Home›Estranged | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife  
  
        Environment:     Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Plantation  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Identity, Personal |  Race›Division |  Race›Miscegenation |  Slavery›Racialism  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunting  
  
      Relationships:     Familial | Interracial  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Bird | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Environment:     Place›Plantation  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Clothes›Wedding dress |  Race›Etiquette  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Body›Voice | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Sickness | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Supernatural›Spell  
  
      Aesthetics:     Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      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:     Atmospheric›Devastation  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination  
  
      Relationships:     Familial  
  
        Themes and Motifs:     Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love  
  
    
        Environment:     Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street  
  
      Actions:     Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Wind  
  
      Actions:     Verbal›Discussion  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Class  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death›Afterlife | Psychological›Peace | Supernatural›Eternity  
  
      Relationships:     Friendship | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Mules | Supernatural›Haunted house  
  
      Aesthetics:     Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Actions:     Perceptual›Seeing  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house  
  
      Aesthetics:     Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Cultural Issues:     Race  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Relationships:     Interracial›White-black  
  
        Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Haunted house  
  
      Relationships:     Interracial›White-black  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Genre Conventions›Gothic  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Growing old |  Race |  Slavery›Quarters  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Appearance›Complexion | Supernatural›Haunted house  
      Themes and Motifs:     Meaning›Mystery | Supernatural›Haunted house  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Mythical›Demon  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday  
  
      Actions:     Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Alcohol |  Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille |  Health and Illness›Fever |  Modernity›Changing customs |  Religion›Sabbath |  Slavery›Domestic labor  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated  
  
        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›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time  
  
      Relationships:     Friendship›College roommate  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Tomb  
      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:     Place›Plantation  
  
      Actions:     Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Clothes›Frock coat |  Clothes›Hat |  Group Mentality›Community collective |  Slavery›Forced migration |  Slavery›Labor |  Slavery›Racialism  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Mosquitoes | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›People compared to animals  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Going to bed | Verbal›Conversation  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Class›Birthright |  Cultural Identity›North vs South |  Race |  Region›The South |  War›Civil War  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Character›Principle | Recurring Tropes›Glory | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Descendants | Friendship›College roommate  
  
        Environment:     Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic  
      Environment:     Olfactory›Decay | Place›Decayed plantation  
  
      Actions:     Emotional›Impatience  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house  
  
      Aesthetics:     Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Painting  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Stairway  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Crime›Breaking and entering |  Gender›Masculine woman |  Race›Miscegenation  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Body›Skin | Objects›Keys | Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Haunted house  
  
      Aesthetics:     Genre Conventions›Gothic  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Old age |  Age›Spinsterhood |  Clothes›Dress |  Clothes›Garment female |  Clothes›Mourning |  Gender›Chastity / purity |  Gender›Femininity |  Sexuality›Frustration |  Sexuality›Virginity  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration  
  
      Relationships:     Intergenerational  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Cultural Identity |  Education›Harvard |  History›Civil War consequences |  Identity, Cultural›South vs North |  Region›The South |  Slavery›Labor |  Violence  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Plantation house  
  
      Actions:     Verbal›Requesting  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Slavery›Miscegenation |  Slavery›Self-emancipation |  War›Civil War  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss | Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Deathbed | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Supernatural›Place  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Sister-sister  
  
        Environment:     Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing  
  
      Actions:     Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Cultural Identity›Lost Cause |  Cultural Identity›Southern identity |  Education›Informal |  Group Mentality›Community collective |  History›Civil War consequences |  Region›Lost Cause |  Region›The South |  War›Defeat  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time  
  
    
        Environment:     Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Evening  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Listening | Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Destructive behavior  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Chivalry |  Gender›Gentleman |  Gender›Women |  History›Civil War as point of reference |  Region›The South |  War›Civil War consequences |  War›Destruction  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Community›Secrecy | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Chivalry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Anticipation  
  
      Relationships:     Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Romantic›Engagement  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Parentheses  
      Themes and Motifs:     Character›Pride | Futility | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Loyalty  
  
      Relationships:     Friendship  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Anticipation  
      Environment:     Place›Plantation  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Supernatural›Telepathy  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Desert island | Figures of Speech›Shadow  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›House  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Listening | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Forgiveness | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Storytelling  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Old age |  Age›Youth vs age |  Gender›Female body |  Gender›Women |  Religion›Damnation |  Religion›Forgiveness  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Body›Flesh | Body›Voice | Death›Response to | Objects›Photograph | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Obsession | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Hierarchical›Elder-younger  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Niobe | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Italics  
      Cultural Issues:     Race›Miscegenation  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom  
  
    
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood  
      Actions:     Emotional›Seduction | Perceptual›Watching  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Supernatural›Spell | Values›Devotion  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Supernatural›Insight  
      Environment:     Time of Year›Summer  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Religion›Preacher / Minister |  Religion›camp meeting  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Philosophical›Salvation | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit  
  
      Relationships:     Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant  
      Actions:     Physical›Repair | Verbal›Announcing  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Chaos/Order›Accident | Death | Supernatural›Insight  
  
      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  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss | Animals›Buzzards | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Signs / Omen  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Mother-son  
  
      Aesthetics:     Description›Character portrait  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Barn  
  
      Actions:     Agricultural›Livestock care | Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Kicking  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Horses | Supernatural›Insight  
      Environment:     Time of Day›Afternoon  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Growing old |  Class›Declasse |  Modernity›Speed |  Slavery›Nostalgia |  War›Return from war  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Objects›Car | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Aesthetics:     Diction›African American vernacular dialect  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon  
  
      Actions:     Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Struggling | Violent›Intimidation  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs  
  
      Relationships:     Interracial›White-black  
  
      Aesthetics:     Diction›African American vernacular dialect  
      Cultural Issues:     Clothes›Hunting clothes |  Education›Princeton |  Hunting and Fishing›Trophy  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Objects›Bible | Objects›Photograph | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Brother-brother  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals  
      Environment:     Olfactory  
  
      Actions:     Communication›And deafness | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Shouting  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Body›Teeth | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Pipe | Past›Prehistory | Supernatural›Ghost  
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Separate spaces |  Race›Segregation  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death›Burial society | Death›Epitaph | Supernatural›Ghost | Texts›Epitaph  
  
    
        Actions:     Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Clothes›Green eyeshade |  Progress  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Horses | Death›Afterlife | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Relationships:     Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-horse  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Gloom  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Playing music | Domestic›Cleaning  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›England  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Spectral | Olfactory›Must  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Clothes›Confederate uniform |  Clothes›Lace |  War›Civil War |  War›Mexican |  War›Spanish American War |  War›World War I  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death›Anticipation of death | Objects›Bible | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Sword | Past›Family history | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›Old Bailey  
      Cultural Issues:     Alcohol›Moonshine |  Gender›Marriage |  Race›Racial identity |  Race›Segregated space |  Ritual›Cemetery decorations  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Funeral | Meaning›Profound | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Husband-wife | Social›Coworker  
  
      Aesthetics:     Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Spectral | Domestic Space›Kitchen  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting  
  
      Relationships:     Interspecies›Man-dog  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Spiritual  
  
      Actions:     Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Seeing  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Rite of passage  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Memory›Remembering | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Timelessness  
  
      Relationships:     Interspecies›Man-deer  
  
      Aesthetics:     Diction›Native American languages | Narrative›Epiphany  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Bedroom  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Story-telling›Retelling | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Cyclical  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Perspective  
      Actions:     Hunting›Deer hunting  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Rite of passage  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Story-telling›Reminiscence | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Cousin-cousin  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Dogs | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Relationships:     Intergenerational›Hunting party  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Delayed revelation  
      Cultural Issues:     Race›White savior  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Insight  
  
      Relationships:     Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black  
  
        Cultural Issues:     Alcohol›Drunkenness |  Cultural Identity›Lost Cause |  Law›Incarceration  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-son  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Parentheses  
      Actions:     Communication›Graffiti | Verbal›Reading aloud  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Race›Negro-lover |  Religion›Christianity |  Religion›Sunday school |  Segregation›Religious  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Folklore  
  
        Environment:     Natural›Sea / Ocean  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Religion›Jesus |  Religion›Revelation  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Vision  
  
        Environment:     Natural›Sea / Ocean  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Religion›Revelation |  War›World War I |  War›World War II  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Vision  
  
        Environment:     Time of Day›Night  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Death›Anticipation of death | Supernatural›Superstitions  
      Environment:     Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Class›Class consciousness |  Progress›New replacing old |  Religion›Religious faith |  Slavery›As cause of Civil War |  War›Civil War  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
        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  
      Actions:     Hunting›Racoon hunting  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Class›Respectability |  Religion›Baptist  
  
        Actions:     Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Frustration  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death›Afterlife | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Supernatural›Eternity | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-son  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Biblical›Angel | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Invisible wire | Symbolism›Christian  
      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›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bees | Place›Stone wall  
  
      Actions:     Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Insects butterflies | Supernatural›Spell  
  
      Relationships:     Friendship›Childhood friends  
  
        Environment:     Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Cedar trees | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Olfactory›Perfume smell  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive |  Sexuality›Disgust with sex  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Pigs | Supernatural›Eternity | Time›Awareness of time  
  
      Aesthetics:     Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Symbolism›Blood  
      Environment:     Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Servants' home  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping | Domestic›Milking | Play›Children playing  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Migration›Intraregional migration |  Migration›Movement to city  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time  
  
      Relationships:     Familial | Interracial›White-black  
  
        Environment:     Auditory›Howling | Domestic Space›Barn  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Dogs | Death›Burial | Death›Funeral | Death›Hearse | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Phantom | Time›Abrupt shift in time  
  
      Aesthetics:     Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Food›Cannibalism |  Religion›Preacher / Minister |  Slavery›Naming slaves |  Slavery›Religion  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions  
  
      Relationships:     Interracial›Master-slave  
  
        Cultural Issues:     Identity, Personal  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions | Time›Abrupt shift in time  
  
      Relationships:     Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person  
  
        Environment:     Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Public›Store window | Time of Year›December  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Appearance›Baldness | Body›Hair | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Folk customs | Supernatural›Superstitions | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Measuring time | Time›Timelessness  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Father-son  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Historical›Philosopher Bergson, Henri | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Drained marsh | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Water | Narrative›African-American folk sayings  
      Actions:     Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away  
  
    
      Themes and Motifs:     Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon  
  
      Actions:     Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Education›Being well read / erudite |  Entertainment›Boat race  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration  
      Environment:     Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring  
  
      Actions:     Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Class›Elite |  Class›Gentility |  Class›Pretension |  Clothes›Garter |  Clothes›Underclothes, female |  Cultural Identity›Country vs city |  Cultural Identity›Southern identity |  Education›Harvard |  Entertainment›Circus |  Gender›Marriage |  Region›The South |  Sexuality›Incest  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue  
  
      Relationships:     Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor  
  
      Aesthetics:     Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation  
      Environment:     Atmospheric›Crowded | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Gender›Men vs women  
  
    
        Actions:     Movement›Hiding | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Assault | Violent›Whipping  
  
      Cultural Issues:     Race›Subverting a stereotype  
  
      Themes and Motifs:     Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen  
  
        Environment:     Auditory›Confused din | Time of Day›Night  
  
    
      Cultural Issues:     Age›Childhood |  Clothes›Military |  Slavery›Minstrelsy |  War›Capture |  War›Union Army