Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Sleeping in same bed
Description
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Relationships: Social›Homoerotic
Actions: Domestic›Discipline
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self | Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | Identity, Personal›Soldier | War›Confederate Army | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Medal | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Socks | Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Race horse | Naming›Alias | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Legal›Locking up
Cultural Issues: Law›Corruption | Law›Informal arrangement
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Physical›Praying
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Values›Determination
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Servants' home
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping | Domestic›Milking | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Migration›Intraregional migration | Migration›Movement to city
Themes and Motifs: Death | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Age›Maturing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Comforter | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
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: 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: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Domestic›Discipline | Movement›Following
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Objects›Bible | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Texts›Bible
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect