Themes and Motifs: Memory Collective memory

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"By the People", 138 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard", 136 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music | Community›Local legends | Memory›Collective memory
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harlem
"The Bear", 284 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Time of Year›November
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Local legend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
"Uncle Willy", 231 (Event)
Environment: Place›Drugstore / pharmacy | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Baseball | Food›Ice-cream | Health and Illness›Drugs
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
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, 88 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bridge | Weather›Flood
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Flags in the Dust, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Silence
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Scottish / Scots
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Memory›Collective memory | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Gun
Aesthetics: Diction›Accent | Figures of Speech›Simile
Go Down, Moses, 253 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Accounting | Mental›Visualize
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Go Down, Moses, 287 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Inheritance›Property | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Diction›Ethnic slur
Go Down, Moses, 355 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Banishment
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Driven away | Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Go Down, Moses, 355 (Event)
Environment: Place›Newspaper office | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Health and Illness›Obesity | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Texts›Telegram
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Chicago | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Light in August, 46 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Knowing
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Light in August, 465 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Time›Future
Light in August, 47 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Light in August, 53 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Light in August, 59 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse | Marital›Husband-wife
Requiem for a Nun, 37 (Event)
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Actions: Interaction, Social›Voting
Cultural Issues: Government›Voting rights | Progress›Cars | Race›Integration | Race›White supremacists | Technology›Electricity | Technology›Neon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pigeons | Animals›Sparrow | Memory›Collective memory
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Reivers , 20 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship | Familial›Orphan