Themes and Motifs: Texts Letters

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"A Name for the City", 202 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Arthritis | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Mail delivery
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters | Texts›Newspapers
"All the Dead Pilots", 528 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Communication›Censorship | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | War›Casualties of war | War›Cost of war | War›Homefront | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Body›Physical disability | Death | Objects›Parcel | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough | Diction›Racist term | Language›Slang, military
"Knight's Gambit", 166 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Communication›Silence | Communication›Writing | Physical›Travel
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 379 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Freudian
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 379 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Gaining weight | Communication›Letter | Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 379 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Exultation | Mental›Channeling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Vicarious
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Poisoning | Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Poison | Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Healing | Bodily›Insomnia | Bodily›Pregnancy | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Recovery | Physical›Dreaming
Themes and Motifs: Futility›When will it stop | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 381 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident | Death›In childbirth | Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 381 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Healing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Letter | Texts›Letters
Absalom, Absalom!, 23 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room | Olfactory›Flowers
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Flags in the Dust, 169 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Taste | Mass Media›Magazines | War›Peace
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bookishness | Character›Duty | Naming›Nickname | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Arlen, Michael | Allusion, Historical›Dreiser, Theodore | Allusion, Historical›Sabatini, Rafael | Allusion, Literary›Romance | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Narrative›Free indirect discourse
The Sound and the Fury, 193 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual
The Town, 223 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | Technology›Typewriter
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 225 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dressed up
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Texts›Letters | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 328 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Letters
Aesthetics: Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 371 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Texts›Letters
The Town, 389 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Community›Crowd | Community›Preserving order | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Civic›child protection
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses