Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order Wildness
Tagged Events
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death | Values›Bad conduct
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Health and Illness›Insanity | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Irony | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Domestic›Sewing | Hunting | Physical›Waiting | Work›Chopping wood | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Civil War | War›Deprivation | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
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: Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
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: Auditory›Nature | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Restlessness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Slavery›Biblical curse | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ham | Narrative›Perspective | Symbolism›Blood | Symbolism›Cage
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pony | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Morals›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Futility›Nothing to do