Themes and Motifs: Time Future
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
- Frozen / Static
- 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
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Banking | History›Carpetbaggers | History›Reconstruction | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Social decline | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Atmospheric›Dereliction | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Place›Houses | Public›Golf course
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernization | Progress›Building structure | Progress›Homogeneity
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Fantasy
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Painting | Metafictional›Picture/image
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Fall
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name | Objects›Flowers Roses | Time›Future
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Character›Coward | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Time›Future
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Public›Courthouse
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pigeons | Animals›Sparrow | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Cars | Progress›Roads
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry