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
"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
"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
Actions: Hunting›Bird hunting | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Animals›Named bear Ben | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 195 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Loss of animal companion
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)
Actions: Communication›Without words | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Intruder in the Dust, 98 (Event)
Environment: Place›Graveyard
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Requiem for a Nun, 13 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Sanctuary, 258 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Confining
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
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)
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Economic›Child support
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile
Relationships: Familial›Extended family