Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
3418 Stillness Recurring Tropes
3068 Stingy with money Money
4484 stoic Character
2217 Stolen Money
1740 Stomach/belly Body
392 Story-telling (First level term)
1131 Story-telling passim Story-telling
2150 Stove Objects
2603 Stove polish Objects
4870 Straightened hair Body
4424 Stranger Community

I'm thinking of the times when someone enters a community who is unknown and the collective community has suspicions about this character. A clear example would be Lena Grove. (jj)

4861 Stubborn Character
5330 Stud fee Money
4545 Stupid Character
4283 Substitute Home
4418 Substitute Absence/Loss
4427 Success Values
1223 Suffering Philosophical
1537 Suicide Death
1391 Suitcase Objects
1933 Sun / Sunlight Recurring Tropes
4479 Superhuman strength Character
384 Supernatural (First level term)
3134 Superstitions Supernatural
5446 Supportive Community
3844 Surface Appearance
1647 Surrey Objects
4886 Suspicious Death
2088 Swagger Character
4503 Swallows Animals
2975 Swing Objects
1925 Sword Objects
4255 Symbolism Body

This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR

4046 Table Objects
4748 Taboos Community
5643 Tankard Objects
2076 Tarpaulin Objects
3477 Tea Objects
3905 Tedious / tedium Philosophical
2003 Teeth Body
1926 Teetotaler Character
3000 Telegram Texts
2373 Telepathy Supernatural
2494 Tenderness Character
4839 Tending to animal Animals
4421 tent Objects
2570 Termites Animals
1404 Terror Psychological
3157 Testicles Body
393 Texts (First level term)
3952 Thighs Body
2110 Thimble Objects
3539 Thinking of home Recurring Tropes
653 Thinness Body
1948 Threshold Recurring Tropes
4040 Throat Body
1840 Tigers Animals
394 Time (First level term)
3346 Timelessness Time
4132 Title Texts
768 Tobacco Objects
1543 Toilet set Objects
2594 Tombstone Objects
1259 Tomorrow and tomorrow Recurring Tropes
5151 Toothpaste Objects
2908 Toothpick Objects
2609 Touch Recurring Tropes
3365 Towel Objects
2527 Town clock Time
798 Toys Objects
539 Tradition Community
3640 Train Objects
1160 Traits Inheritance

In the biological sense rather than the legal or economic one: inherited physical, psychological, or moral characteristics. JW

795 Transcended Time
4871 Translation Texts
1921 Trauma Psychological
4284 Traumatic Past
1549 Travel back in time Time
4116 Treasure Money
4601 Treaty Texts
1950 Triumph Recurring Tropes
1041 Truck Objects
1653 Trunk Objects
1227 Trust Character
591 Truth/Lies Values
4704 Trying to go home Home
779 Trying to say Recurring Tropes
736 Turkey Animals
4802 Turtles Animals
1024 Twilight Recurring Tropes
3476 Ugliness Appearance
1658 Umbrella Objects
1881 Uncertain Memory
2360 Unconscious Psychological
4752 Unknowable Character
3832 Unnatural / Contrary to nature Philosophical
2104 Unruliness Character
4294 Unsynchronized clocks Time
4783 Upliftment Community

Whenever a member of the community takes it upon him or herself to "uplift" the rest of the members of the community, whether they want to be uplifted or not. The specific example is John Sartoris in The Unvanquished who has grand plans for the people of Jefferson (223).

873 Upward mobility Recurring Tropes

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