Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Disappearance

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"A Name for the City", 206 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Story-telling›Communal mythology
"An Error in Chemistry", 125 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
"Appendix: Compson", 332 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile›Dispossession
"Appendix: Compson", 342 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Over time | Home›Getting away
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Bigamy | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Miss Quentin runs away
"By the People", 88 (Event)
Environment: Place›Mill
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic
Cultural Issues: Politics›Campaigning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious
"Hand Upon the Waters", 70 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | History›Founding fathers | Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
"Knight's Gambit", 208 (Event)
Environment: Place›Greenbury hotel
Actions: Communication›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
"Monk", 44 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
"The Bear", 289 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Hunting›Bird hunting | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization | Movement›Wrong direction | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Named bear Ben | Home›In nature | Objects›Compass | Objects›Footprint | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Narrative›Epiphany | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"The Hound", 156 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Physical›Whittling
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Community›Social life | Psychological›Paranoia | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
"The Hound", 158 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Physical›Whittling
Cultural Issues: Law›Jury
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Narrative›African-American folk sayings
Absalom, Absalom!, 50 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: Gender›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Recurring Tropes›Escape / Departing through a window
Relationships: Familial›Support|Neglect | Marital›Elopement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Gate | Place›Houses
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Military›Service | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Killing | Violent›Murder | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Shooting | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Death | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Engagement | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Assailant-victim
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
As I Lay Dying, 195 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 163 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Go Down, Moses, 166 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Go Down, Moses, 197 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Go Down, Moses, 204 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Dogs
Go Down, Moses, 259 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Go Down, Moses, 354 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Crime›And race | Crime›Manslaughter
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Jailbreak
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Intruder in the Dust, 162 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Communication›Without words | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Objects›Coffin | Objects›Shovel
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Intruder in the Dust, 98 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Trees | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Surprise | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Hat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Language›Hah | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Requiem for a Nun, 13 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Running
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Requiem for a Nun, 81 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Interaction, Social›Frontier life
Cultural Issues: History›Colonization | History›Frontier outlawry | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Interracial›White-black | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Extramarital
Sanctuary, 258 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Economic›Bribing | Physical›Confining
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
The Hamlet, 113 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›January
Cultural Issues: Education›Rural school
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night
The Hamlet, 147 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Friday
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
The Mansion, 326 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Politics›Campaigning | Politics›Political ambition
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
The Mansion, 346 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Politics›Campaigning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
The Mansion, 354 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Caddy's marriage ends
The Mansion, 433 (Event)
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Law›Sheriff | Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Missing | Philosophical›Freedom
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 462 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Emotional›Panic | Mental›Realization | Verbal›Preaching
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Religion›Baptist
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Community›Tradition | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Reivers , 185 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 188 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Worry | Movement›Surrey
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity | Narrative›Revision
The Reivers , 197 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel
Actions: Emotional›Suspicion
Cultural Issues: Education›Parenting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Values›Refinement
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
The Reivers , 199 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hotel kitchen | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Socks
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Objects›Gold tooth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Reivers , 228 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
The Reivers , 229 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Paddock
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Horses | Objects›Gold tooth
Aesthetics: Language›Profanity
The Town, 304 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
The Town, 381 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Verbal›Calling
Cultural Issues: Crime›Kidnapping | Economy›Insurance | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Meaning›Misinterpretation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Lao Tse (Laozi) | Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia
The Town, 383 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Economic›Child support | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular