Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
3119 Handkerchief Objects
2474 Hands in pockets Recurring Tropes
3247 Harmonica Objects
5163 Harness strap Objects
4401 Hatchet Objects
5278 Haunted by past Memory
2612 Haunted house Supernatural
2608 Haunting Supernatural
2878 Hearse Death
809 Hearth Objects
3687 Heels Body
955 Heirloom Objects
4460 Helpless Character
4854 Hidden Money
3951 Hips Body
4894 Historical wrong Past
2643 Hoe Objects
528 Hog Animals
376 Home (First level term)
1283 Home as prison Home
2624 Homebound Home
1863 Homecoming Home
1957 Homesickness_Longing for home Home
1224 Honesty Character
1129 Honeysuckle Objects
864 Honor Values
1924 Honor Morals
595 Horses Animals
1522 Horsewhip Objects
3156 Hot water bottle Objects
5098 Hubris Character
3520 Human experience Philosophical
1159 Human nature Philosophical
4544 Humility Character
4919 Hunting Story-telling
2451 Hunting horn Objects
1398 Hypocrisy Morals
4966 Hypocrisy Character
2476 Ice Objects
5272 Idealism Values
5439 Ill-gotten Money
2314 Illusion Recurring Tropes
3172 Illusion of success or victory Futility
3222 Imagination Values
4677 Imagined Death
2366 Imitation Recurring Tropes
1832 Importance of naming Naming

When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP

2679 Impotence Character

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC

4525 Improvements Home
3253 Impulsiveness Character
5023 In battle Futility
1349 In childbirth Death
1561 In nature Home
1723 In prospect Money
4641 Inability Futility
5123 Income Inheritance
683 Independence Values
1187 Independence Character
985 Indian burial practices Death
846 Indian name Naming
2421 Indian Removal Exile
4258 Individualism Philosophical

Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP

4917 Indomitable Character
4329 Inexperience Character
3878 Infinity Philosophical
1091 Inheritance (First level term)
4134 Inheritance Money
4895 Inheritance of wrong Inheritance
2407 Inherited traits Character
1245 Injustice Morals
647 Innocence Character
2353 Innocence Past
1609 Inscrutable Appearance

I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW

4469 Insect boll weevil Animals
3858 Insect fly Animals
3882 Insects bees Animals
3883 Insects butterflies Animals
4146 Insects crickets Animals
3814 Insects lice Animals
3843 Insects mayflies Animals
5619 Insects tick Animals
1003 Insight Supernatural
2334 Integrity Character
2696 Intelligence Character
5091 Interpretation Meaning
2427 Interpretation of symbol Meaning
522 Intestines Body
3978 Invisibility Appearance
1681 Iron box Objects
989 Jailbreak Arrivals/Departures
3891 Jaw Body
4437 Jazz music Art
3502 Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass Objects
3353 Jewelry Charm Objects
2997 Jimson weed Objects

Also known as Jamestown weed. -JBP

2676 Jug Objects
642 Junk Objects
2304 Just in time Time

Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB

533 Justice Philosophical
1115 Justice Values

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