Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Trying to say

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"Barn Burning", 23 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Elly", 220 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Intent to kill
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Cleansing power of water
"Hand upon the Waters", 67 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Whimper
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Mute
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Physical disability | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Lion", 188 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Intimidation | Movement›Train | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Objects›Suitcase | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Lion", 195 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
"Monk", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Power of literature | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Metafictional | Narrative›First-person passim
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Arrest
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Gambling | Crime›Vagrancy | Race›Law
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court
Cultural Issues: Law›Jury
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 42 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Law›Alienating | Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Environment: Place›Gallows
Actions: Physical›Hanging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
"Monk", 46 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Legal›Arrest
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Law›Alienating
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Arrest
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Actions: Legal›Arraign
Cultural Issues: Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Legal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Law›Justice of the Peace
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Environment: Place›Gallows
Cultural Issues: Law›Execution
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-Reflective | Narrative›Temporal projection
"Monk", 47 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court
Cultural Issues: Law›Trial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Race at Morning", 297 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"That Evening Sun", 302 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"The Unvanquished", 93 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Verbal›Begging
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
"Uncle Willy", 245 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Comforting | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Loyalty | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
"Uncle Willy", 247 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Guilt | Moral›Aiding and abetting | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Haunted by past | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
"Vendee", 116 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Absalom, Absalom!, 188 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Cave
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 131 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender | Sexuality›Experience
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Adultery
As I Lay Dying, 180 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones
Themes and Motifs: Death›Like death | Objects›Construction tools | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Flags in the Dust, 270 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Drooling | Bodily›Watching | Economic›Banking | Emotional›Rage | Emotional›Terror | Moral›Blackmail | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Beating | Violent›Dragging | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Health and Illness›Insomnia | Sexuality›Fantasy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Language›Ah-Ah-Ah
Go Down, Moses, 246 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Biblical curse
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Ham | Interpretation›Ambiguity | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Go Down, Moses, 274 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Cultural›South vs North
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Go Down, Moses, 290 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Death›Deathbed | Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Go Down, Moses, 297 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Romantic›Sexual
Go Down, Moses, 341 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Love
Relationships: Marital›Breakup
Go Down, Moses, 362 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Requiem for a Nun, 101 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Tone›Sarcastic
Requiem for a Nun, 101 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Confession
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Requiem for a Nun, 110 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Health and Illness›Physical deformity | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Temple at Reba's | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 115 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Begging
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Marital›Secrecy
Aesthetics: Language›French
Requiem for a Nun, 118 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Guilt | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Texts›Love letter | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 124 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Church | Place›Country club
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Partying | Interaction, Social›Peer group | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Sharing confidences
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Health and Illness›Hangover | Modernity›Interwar years | Religion›Catholicism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 153 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Emotional›Resignation | Physical›Lifting
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Sanctuary, 102 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Fantasizing | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Crime›Rape
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Sanctuary, 240 (Event)
Environment: Place›Speakeasy
Actions: Physical›Dancing | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Gambling | Crime›Kidnapping
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dice | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
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
The Mansion, 307 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mesopotamia
The Reivers , 14 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Actions: Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Law›Sheriff's deputy | Law›Witness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
The Sound and the Fury, 39 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Cellar | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Laughing | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Dogs | Community›Wedding | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 40 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Bathing | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Age›Maturing | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Hat | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Perfume | Objects›Toys | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 47 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Heartbeat | Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Courting | Movement›Running | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Kissing | Physical›Touching | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Swing | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 5 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Weather›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Sleeping | Movement›Running | Movement›Walking | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Squirrel | Body›Hand / Palm | Home›Home as prison | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Booksatchel | Objects›Bottle | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Narrative›Unreliable narrator
The Sound and the Fury, 52 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Walking | Physical›Escape from confinement | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 52 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hurried | Emotional›Moaning | Movement›Running | Movement›Running away | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Home›Home as prison | Objects›Booksatchel | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Recurring Episodes›Benjy accosts schoolgirl
The Sound and the Fury, 69 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Shame | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Pushing away
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Body›Eyes | Character›Innocence | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Movement›Running
Cultural Issues: Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Unvanquished, 185 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Physical›Holding | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Reunion | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular