Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Disappearance
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence
- Absence as disguise
- Absence as loss
- Absence as presence
- Absence of sound
- Aloneness
- Attempt to find substitute
- Blame
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Losing vs never having
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money|Wealth
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Quest to recover
- Racial
- Red necks
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- Vanishing Indian
- War
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Recurring Tropes›Illusion
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile›Dispossession
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
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic
Cultural Issues: Politics›Campaigning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | History›Founding fathers | Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Place›Greenbury hotel
Actions: Communication›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
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
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
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Physical›Whittling
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Supernatural›Superstitions
Aesthetics: Narrative›African-American folk sayings
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Violence›Interracial | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion | Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Actions: Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Dogs
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Jailbreak
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Objects›Coffin | Objects›Shovel
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Surprise | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Physical›Digging
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Public›Jail | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
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
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Movement›Buggy
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Politics›Campaigning | Politics›Political ambition
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Caddy's marriage ends
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Law›Sheriff's deputy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Missing | Philosophical›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Community›Tradition | Death›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Values›Refinement
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Place›Hotel kitchen | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Interaction, Private›Courting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Objects›Gold tooth
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Domestic Space›Paddock
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Horses | Objects›Gold tooth
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed
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
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Economic›Child support | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular