Cultural Issues: Progress Roads
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Agricultural
- Air travel
- As loss
- Building structure
- Cars
- Clearing the land
- Consumerism
- Country to city
- Education
- Electrification
- Elevator
- Factory
- Frontier times
- Frontier to civilization
- Gentrification
- Growing population
- Historical
- Homogeneity
- Indoor plumbing
- Infrastructure
- Ironies of
- Mail delivery
- Neon lights
- New replacing old
- Pace of travel
- Paving
- Racialized
- Regional
- Religion
- Renaming
- Renovations
- Requirements
- Road traffic
- Skyscraper
- Smoke stack
- Social
- Streetcar line
- Technological
- Telegraph
- Tractor
- Trains
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Sewing machine
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bookishness
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Philosophical›Movement
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Land-Use›Cotton farming | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Cultural Issues: Progress›Indoor plumbing | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Paving | Progress›Roads | Progress›Technological | Progress›Trains | Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money | Government›Depression-era programs | Progress›As loss | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Paving | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Environment: Time of Day›Two o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Work clothes | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Driving to Goodwin's
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi Delta
Actions: Hunting›Setting up camp | Movement›Truck
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Cars | Progress›Roads
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›May | Time of Year›Planting time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Diction›Neologism
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary | Public›Store
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Relationships: Commercial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Infrastructure | Progress›Roads
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Progress›Roads | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Themes and Motifs: Money›Wasting | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Pretension | Materialism›Status | Progress›Consumerism | Progress›New replacing old | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named dog Lion