Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
1201 Goat Animals
1256 Going fast Recurring Tropes
785 Going to Texas Recurring Tropes
1997 Gold Money
2559 Gold tooth Objects
2879 Golf ball Objects
1559 Good conduct Values
867 Gossip Recurring Tropes
3173 Graffiti Texts
1555 Grander than present Past
5573 Grasshoppers Animals
5574 Grasshoppers (First level term)
1104 Greed Values
2739 Greed Character
2117 Guitar Objects
3576 Gulls Animals
1810 Gun Objects
583 Hair Body
3976 Hair pigtails Appearance
5173 Half dollar Money
2333 Hammer Objects
2677 Hammock Objects
2644 Hand / Palm Body
2534 Hand grip Objects
2906 Handcuffs Objects
3119 Handkerchief Objects
2474 Hands in pockets Recurring Tropes
3247 Harmonica Objects
5163 Harness strap Objects
4401 Hatchet Objects
5278 Haunted by past Memory
2612 Haunted house Supernatural
2608 Haunting Supernatural
2878 Hearse Death
809 Hearth Objects
3687 Heels Body
955 Heirloom Objects
4460 Helpless Character
5739 Hereditary culpability Inheritance
4854 Hidden Money
3951 Hips Body
4894 Historical wrong Past
2643 Hoe Objects
528 Hog Animals
376 Home (First level term)
1283 Home as prison Home
2624 Homebound Home
1863 Homecoming Home
1957 Homesickness_Longing for home Home
1224 Honesty Character
1129 Honeysuckle Objects
864 Honor Values
1924 Honor Morals
595 Horses Animals
1522 Horsewhip Objects
3156 Hot water bottle Objects
5098 Hubris Character
3520 Human experience Philosophical
1159 Human nature Philosophical
4544 Humility Character
4919 Hunting Story-telling
2451 Hunting horn Objects
1398 Hypocrisy Morals
4966 Hypocrisy Character
2476 Ice Objects
5272 Idealism Values
5439 Ill-gotten Money
2314 Illusion Recurring Tropes
3172 Illusion of success or victory Futility
3222 Imagination Values
4677 Imagined Death
2366 Imitation Recurring Tropes
1832 Importance of naming Naming

When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP

2679 Impotence Character

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC

4525 Improvements Home
3253 Impulsiveness Character
5023 In battle Futility
1349 In childbirth Death
1561 In nature Home
1723 In prospect Money
4641 Inability Futility
5123 Income Inheritance
683 Independence Values
1187 Independence Character
985 Indian burial practices Death
846 Indian name Naming
2421 Indian Removal Exile
4258 Individualism Philosophical

Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP

4917 Indomitable Character
4329 Inexperience Character
3878 Infinity Philosophical
1091 Inheritance (First level term)
4134 Inheritance Money
4895 Inheritance of wrong Inheritance
2407 Inherited traits Character
1245 Injustice Morals
647 Innocence Character
2353 Innocence Past
1609 Inscrutable Appearance

I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW

4469 Insect boll weevil Animals

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