Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Attempt to find substitute

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"Race at Morning", 302 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nursing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Sentience | Chaos/Order›Creating order
"The Unvanquished", 87 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Withholding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Texts›Drawing
Absalom, Absalom!, 148 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Store owner
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Adult-adolescent
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus
As I Lay Dying, 100 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Practicality | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish | Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Dying wish | Objects›Toys | Philosophical›Existentialism
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 110 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bridge | Time of Day›Dusk | Weather›Flood | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Labor | Land-Use›Agricultural | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Memory›Collective memory | Morals›Hypocrisy | Philosophical›Salvation
As I Lay Dying, 166 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment
Cultural Issues: Religion›Challenge | Religion›Heresy | Religion›Piety | Religion›Sacrilege | Religion›Sin | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Redemption | Philosophical›Salvation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Neighbor
As I Lay Dying, 176 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Calculation
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Anticipation of death | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
As I Lay Dying, 249 (Event)
Environment: Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Toys | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 53 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Rage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
As I Lay Dying, 65 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Physical›Confining | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial
As I Lay Dying, 65 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country vs city
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty | Materialism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Toys
As I Lay Dying, 66 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Confining | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
As I Lay Dying, 84 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish | Death›Response to
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Symbolism
As I Lay Dying, 92 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Care | Domestic›Child care | Hunting›Fishing | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
Relationships: Familial›Childlessness | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Requiem for a Nun, 18 (Event)
Environment: Place›Tavern
Actions: Emotional›Rage | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Government›US Post Office
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Sanctuary, 51 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Running | Verbal›Praying | Verbal›Screaming
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
The Hamlet, 50 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
The Hamlet, 51 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
The Mansion, 151 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute
The Sound and the Fury, 146 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Place›Houses | Public›Bridge | Public›Street
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Hat cap | Clothes›Motoring clothes | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Body›Arm
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England | Description›Color pink
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, 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