Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Dream turns to dust
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Echo
- Endurance
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Guilt | Moral›Aiding and abetting | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Haunted by past | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Environment: Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Land-Use›Agricultural | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anti-climax
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Mockingbird | Objects›Flowers Dogwood | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Government›Voting rights | History›Frontier outlawry | Race›White supremacists | Ritual›Dueling | War›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust