Themes and Motifs: Home Homecoming

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"Appendix: Compson", 335 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Exile | Home›Estranged | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Abandonment
"Appendix: Compson", 343 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
"Go Down, Moses", 262 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Heat
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
"Hand upon the Waters", 76 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Crime
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Home›Homecoming
"Pantaloon in Black", 240 (Event)
Environment: Place›McCaslin-Edmonds plantation | Place›Quarters
Cultural Issues: Economy›Renting housing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
"Pantaloon in Black", 241 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Dogs | Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
"Pantaloon in Black", 241 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Memory›Remembering passim | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Duration of time
"Retreat", 32 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
"Retreat", 32 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Relief
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
"Retreat", 32 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
"The Hound", 153 (Event)
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
"The Hound", 163 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Movement›Car | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Economy›Market day
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Futility›Inability | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
"The Hound", 163 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Movement›Car | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Community›Ordinary | Home›Homecoming
Absalom, Absalom!, 119 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 217 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Tombstone
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Absalom, Absalom!, 255 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 255 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 256 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 262 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Confederate Decoration Day
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dress | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Community›Decoration Day | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Medal | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 268 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Drawing room
Actions: Bodily›Laughing
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Body›Skin | Character›Naivety | Home›Homecoming | Story-telling›Collaborative | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 286 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Gaps
Absalom, Absalom!, 297 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning
Themes and Motifs: Death | Home›Homecoming | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Flags in the Dust, 163 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Arcadian | Domestic Space›Architecture | Natural›Trees
Actions: Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Arcadia
Flags in the Dust, 41 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Economy›Industrialization | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Body›Moustache | Character›Ambitious | Futility | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Chicago | Allusion, Geographical›Gulf Coast | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Tone›Sarcastic
Go Down, Moses, 131 (Event)
Environment: Place›Quarters
Cultural Issues: Economy›Renting housing
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Go Down, Moses, 132 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Disorientation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Dogs | Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Go Down, Moses, 133 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Memory›Remembering passim
Go Down, Moses, 286 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Response to | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Go Down, Moses, 358 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Paying
Cultural Issues: Race›White savior
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Go Down, Moses, 359 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Burial | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Civic›Charity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Go Down, Moses, 361 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Exodus | Allusion, Biblical›Pharaoh
Go Down, Moses, 365 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Values›Family honor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Sanctuary, 110 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Sanctuary, 222 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Honeysuckle | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Fantasizing | Perceptual›Hearing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nausea | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Sanctuary, 297 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Taxi
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Gender›Chivalry | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 298 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Numbness | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Food›Candy | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Home›Home as prison | Home›Homecoming | Objects›Books | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Texts›Magazine
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 309 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Lying
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
The Hamlet, 243 (Event)
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
The Hamlet, 291 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Hamlet, 48 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Crying
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Home›Homecoming
The Mansion, 198 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Home›Homecoming
The Mansion, 208 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Mansion, 225 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Monument | Objects›Tombstone
The Mansion, 238 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Mansion, 239 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Banking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Ritual›Holiday dinner
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius | Allusion, Literary›Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | Style›Address to reader
The Mansion, 324 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Mansion, 354 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Crying
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
The Reivers , 292 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Lying
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
The Town, 118 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Unvanquished, 10 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner | Time of Day›Noon
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 70 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek
Actions: Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Unvanquished, 70 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Unvanquished, 70 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Relief
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming
The Unvanquished, 8 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Sword
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Kinship | Interspecies›Man-horse