Cultural Issues: Modernity Speed

Description

Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB

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"Knight's Gambit", 245 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
"Uncle Willy", 240 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant
"Uncle Willy", 242 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak
Actions: Moral›Scheming | Movement›Car | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running away
Cultural Issues: Law›Aviation | Modernity›Speed
Flags in the Dust, 110 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Singing | Work›Gardening
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
Flags in the Dust, 114 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Struggling | Violent›Intimidation
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Flags in the Dust, 144 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Modernity›Speed | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 257 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Restraining | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | War›Aerial combat | War›Death | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down
Flags in the Dust, 258 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Flags in the Dust, 266 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Healing | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Bandage | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Flags in the Dust, 75 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Emotional›Indifference | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | Technology›Automobile
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 76 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pipe | Objects›Tobacco
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Flags in the Dust, 81 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Emotional›Worry
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper | Modernity›Speed | Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Dumas, Alexandre
Flags in the Dust, 81 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Flags in the Dust, 83 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Character›Noisiness
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Flags in the Dust, 85 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car | Movement›Carriage | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Flags in the Dust, 85 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Airplane
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Reivers , 40 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Spitting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Motoring clothes | Modernity›Speed | Progress›Cars
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry | Figures of Speech›Expression | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 49 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Moral›Scheming | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Modernity›Speed | Progress›Trains
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
The Reivers , 50 (Event)
Environment: Place›Lane | Place›Motordrome
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Driving
Cultural Issues: Education›Informal | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Speed | Race›Segregation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Dogs
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
The Town, 123 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | War›Psychological effects
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Bayard and the lost generation
The Town, 149 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Death›Longing for death | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death