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Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
4488 Cultural Issues History Transatlantic migration
4487 Actions Economic Transactional
4486 Relationships Hierarchical Parent-child
4485 Actions Moral Fraud
4484 Themes and Motifs Character stoic
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
4482 Cultural Issues Mass Media Graphophone
4481 Environment Auditory Music
4480 Cultural Issues Economy Evaluate exchange value
4479 Themes and Motifs Character Superhuman strength
4478 Themes and Motifs Character Self-righteousness
4477 Themes and Motifs Money Money order
4476 Themes and Motifs Values Family honor
4475 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Leprosy
4474 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Leprosy
4473 Actions Economic Asking for money
4472 Actions Economic Child support
4471 Cultural Issues Economy Economic speculation
4470 Cultural Issues Prejudice Anti-Semitism
4469 Themes and Motifs Animals Insect boll weevil
4468 Cultural Issues Ritual Easter
4467 Actions Communication Receiving mail
4466 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Infection
4465 Cultural Issues Technology Car tire
4464 Cultural Issues Education Missing school
4463 Cultural Issues Religion Consolation
4462 Themes and Motifs Death Denial
4461 Relationships Interspecies Man-fish
4460 Themes and Motifs Character Helpless
4459 Cultural Issues Alcohol As anaesthetic
4458 Cultural Issues Religion Blessing
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
4456 Cultural Issues Religion Heresy
4455 Relationships Hierarchical Pastor-congregant
4454 Cultural Issues Religion camp meeting
4453 Cultural Issues Religion Free Will
4452 Relationships Familial Favoritism
4451 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Battle of Lookout Mountain
4450 Environment Olfactory Smelling black
4449 Cultural Issues Modernity Modernist style

When text makes fairly explicit reference to "modernism" as a movement, like the cubistic bug in As I Lay Dying or the modernist lampstand in Sanctuary. SR
4448 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Madame Bovary
4447 Themes and Motifs Exile Alienation from nature
4446 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Dehumanizing

Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary.
4445 Aesthetics Narrative Temporal discontinuity

When narrative relates events in achronological order, i.e. event3 followed by event1 followed by event2, etc. Cf. opening paragraph of Sanctuary. SR
4444 Themes and Motifs Objects rubber tree
4443 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chess
4442 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Battle of Ronceavaux Pass
4441 Themes and Motifs Texts Epitaph
4440 Themes and Motifs Death Plane accident
4439 Relationships Familial Dynasty
4438 Cultural Issues Gender Flapper
4437 Themes and Motifs Art Jazz music
4436 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical California
4435 Cultural Issues Education Truancy
4434 Themes and Motifs Appearance Feminine
4433 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Housman, A.E.
4432 Cultural Issues Progress Homogeneity
4431 Actions Bodily Work song
4430 Environment Public Architecture
4429 Environment Olfactory House
4428 Themes and Motifs Death And inheritance
4427 Themes and Motifs Values Success
4426 Cultural Issues Clothes And class
4425 Actions Communication Silence
4424 Themes and Motifs Community Stranger

I'm thinking of the times when someone enters a community who is unknown and the collective community has suspicions about this character. A clear example would be Lena Grove. (jj)
4423 Themes and Motifs Objects Flashlight
4422 Actions Movement Bicycle
4421 Themes and Motifs Objects tent
4420 Cultural Issues Age Middle age
4419 Themes and Motifs Texts Accounts
4418 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Substitute
4417 Themes and Motifs Objects Camera
4416 Actions Bodily Jumping
4415 Environment Time of Day Saturday night
4414 Environment Auditory Airplane sound
4413 Actions Violent Airplane crash
4412 Environment Public Barber shop
4411 Actions Bodily Limping
4410 Cultural Issues Entertainment Barnstorming
4409 Cultural Issues Law Burglary
4408 Themes and Motifs Death Disease
4407 Cultural Issues War Profiting from war
4406 Cultural Issues Ritual Visit
4405 Actions Verbal Moralizing
4404 Actions Verbal Howling
4403 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poe, Edgar Allan
4402 Cultural Issues Clothes Rags
4401 Themes and Motifs Objects Hatchet
4400 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Pickett's Charge
4399 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Glory
4398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reunion
4397 Cultural Issues War Bivouac fires
4396 Environment Olfactory Camp-fire smoke
4395 Aesthetics Narrative Narrative shift
4394 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Richmond, Virginia
4393 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Duke John of Lorraine
4392 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Bertrand du Guesclin
4391 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roland of Roncesvalles
4390 Cultural Issues Class Caste system
4389 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Battle of Corinth

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