Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures Return home
Tagged Events
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
Actions: Communication›Without words
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Naming›Indian name
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
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
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
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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Cultural Issues: War›Going to war | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Extended family
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
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
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
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
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
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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Quotation as thought
Actions: Work›Barbering | Work›Quitting job
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Values›Success
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›New car
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›And inheritance
Cultural Issues: Technology›Electricity | Technology›Running water
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Bookishness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Satisfaction
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Environment: Auditory›Heartbeat | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Metaphorical elephant | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Door
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Gun
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Domestic violence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Inherited traits | Inheritance›Property
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War consequences | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Winter
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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Face | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Tombstone
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Actions: Military›Enlistment | Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Tombstone | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham
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
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
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
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Requesting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Objects›Piano
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Arcadian | Domestic Space›Architecture | Natural›Trees
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Arcadia
Actions: Communication›Telegraph
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Of parent
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Health and Illness›Injury
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Letter
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Fool|Foolishness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Language›French | Recurring Episodes›Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
Actions: Hunting›Breaking camp
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Time›Awareness of time
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Indomitable
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Inheritance›Property | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Burial | Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Exile›Post-war
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Futility›Inability | Objects›Padlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Psychological›Denial
Cultural Issues: Progress›Pace of travel
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Natural›Trees
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Race horse | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Responsibility
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Car
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
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
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
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
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting
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
Actions: Economic›Buying a shop or store
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | 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
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
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
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas, figuratively
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Tradition | Death›Corpse | Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Race›Stereotype lower intelligence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Tennessee
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Mother-in-law
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Crime›Horse theft
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Gun
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Friendship›Racial
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau