Themes and Motifs: Home Destroyed

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"Appendix: Compson", 338 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Saving money | Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social decline | Education›Trade school | Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dysfunctional | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal discontinuity | Recurring Episodes›Benjy accosts schoolgirl | Recurring Episodes›Benjy castrated | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
"Raid", 38 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"Raid", 42 (Event)
Environment: Place›Graveyard
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Home›Destroyed
"Retreat", 34 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Violence against civilians
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jordan | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
"There Was a Queen", 732 (Event)
Actions: Military›Destruction of enemy property
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Civil War | War›On homefront
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Sanctuary, 304 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Crime›Arson | Health and Illness›Insanity | Health and Illness›Venereal disease
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Doctor-patient
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Coolidge, Calvin
The Mansion, 411 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration | Law›Pardon
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Kinlessness | Home›Destroyed | Money›Cash | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Extended family
The Mansion, 458 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Hills | Natural›Trees | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Physical›Searching | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Erosion
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home
The Mansion, 459 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed
The Unvanquished, 74 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Resistance | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Home›Destroyed | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Language›Profanity
The Unvanquished, 78 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Hat | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Loyalty | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Home›Destroyed | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Unvanquished, 85 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Graveyard | Place›Railroad
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Home›Destroyed
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hawkhurst