Themes and Motifs: Time Frozen / Static
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abrupt shift in time
- And change
- Anticipation
- Awareness of time
- Being in time
- Being late / tardiness
- Being on time / punctuality
- Being outside of time
- Continuity
- Cyclical
- Duration of time
- Future
- Just in time
- Living in the present
- Long passage of time
- Lost time
- Measuring time
- Past
- Permanence
- Return to present time
- Routine
- Running out
- Series of events experienced as long duration
- Simultaneity of time
- Timelessness
- Town clock
- Transcended
- Travel back in time
- Unsynchronized clocks
- Watch
- Working day
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Technology | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Airplane | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Picture/image
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Carriage
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dolls | Recurring Tropes›Illusion | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Styx | Figures of Speech›Butterfly
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Three o'clock a.m.
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nausea
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Community›Alienation | Time›Frozen / Static
Themes and Motifs: Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory | Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Entertainment›Horse race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Public›Store window | Time of Year›December
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Body›Hair | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Folk customs | Supernatural›Superstitions | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Measuring time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Philosopher Bergson, Henri | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Drained marsh | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Water | Narrative›African-American folk sayings
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dressed up
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Texts›Letters | Time›Frozen / Static
Cultural Issues: War›Displacement
Themes and Motifs: Time›Frozen / Static
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Destruction | War›Displacement | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Time›Frozen / Static