Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Threshold
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
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Law›Warrant | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Socio-economic | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Aesthetics: Description›Location portrait
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Economy›Property | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Misinterpretation | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Medical / Surgical
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Character›Provincialism | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Friendship | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face