Themes and Motifs: Death Response to
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Afterlife
- Ambiguous circumstances
- And inheritance
- Animal bear
- Animal Dog
- Animal horse
- Animal mule
- Anticipation of death
- Bones
- Burial
- Burial society
- Car accident
- Child
- Coffin
- Compared to living
- Compared to sleep
- Corpse
- Death by water / Drowning
- Death sentence
- Deathbed
- Denial
- Disease
- Dying wish
- Epitaph
- Eulogy
- Execution
- Funeral
- Funeral pyre / cremation
- Future
- Hearse
- Imagined
- In childbirth
- Indian burial practices
- Killing oneself slowly
- Left for dead
- Like death
- Liminal
- Longing for death
- Moment of
- Moving a dead body
- Murder
- Of parent
- Plane accident
- Preparing for death
- Respect
- Spousal
- Suicide
- Suspicious
- Wake
Tagged Events
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Response to
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Love | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Death›Response to | Objects›Tombstone | Philosophical›Existentialism
Aesthetics: Language›German | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Law›Alienating
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Hunting›Rabbit hunting
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Meaning›Profound
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›July
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Tirade
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Satchel | Objects›Towel
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Singing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Death›Response to | Objects›Coffin | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish | Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Symbolism
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Fish | Death›Response to
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Buzzards | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Communication›Telegraph
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover | Death›Plane accident | Death›Response to | Texts›Newspapers
Actions: Communication›Writing | Legal›Record keeping
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Texts›Bible
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Response to | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed | Death›Response to
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Car | Psychological›Obsession
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Packing | Emotional›Excitement
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Death›Response to
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›University of Mississippi
Actions: Play›Playing in water
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Night | Auditory›Howling | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Servants' home | Natural›Creek | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Ditch | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Death›Bones | Death›Response to
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Disbelief | Mental›Misunderstanding | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Parlor | Natural›Trees
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Environment: Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Sitting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Animals›Lightning bugs | Character›Independence | Character›Innocence | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Objects›Furniture | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Values›Courage
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Domestic Space›Stairway | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Shirtsleeves | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Nickname | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Sick room | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Nightgown | Clothes›Undressing | Health and Illness›Measles
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Sick room | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Undressing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Sick room | Olfactory›Smelling death
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Kissing | Bodily›Sleeping | Domestic›Child care | Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Caring | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Obeying / obedience
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Clothes›Undressing | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Death›Wake | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling | Interracial›Domestic
Environment: Olfactory›Smelling death
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Response to | Exile›Post-war
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Animal mule | Death›Response to
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Performance
Actions: Mental›Believing | Mental›Understanding | Moral›Forgiveness
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Sex and death
Themes and Motifs: Community›Conformity | Death›Response to
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Death›Future | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Eulogy | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Gun | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›October
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Food›Soda
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
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: Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female intuition | Law›Eye for an eye
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lucifer | Description›Eyes | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Domestic Space›Porch
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Stable | Olfactory›Flowers
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Coward | Character›Reputation | Death›Response to
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics