Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
1531 Themes and Motifs Values Dignity
1532 Themes and Motifs Objects Poison
1535 Themes and Motifs Animals Rat
1537 Themes and Motifs Death Suicide
1541 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Scandal
1543 Themes and Motifs Objects Toilet set
1544 Themes and Motifs Art Painting
1546 Themes and Motifs Objects Crystal
1549 Themes and Motifs Time Travel back in time
1550 Themes and Motifs Naming Using Indians as names
1555 Themes and Motifs Past Grander than present
1559 Themes and Motifs Values Good conduct
1561 Themes and Motifs Home In nature
1571 Themes and Motifs Values Bad conduct
1583 Themes and Motifs Values Love
1590 Themes and Motifs Animals Snake
1596 Themes and Motifs Community Crowd
1609 Themes and Motifs Appearance Inscrutable

I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW
1613 Themes and Motifs Appearance Perspective

I added this for "The Old People," 206.5, to describe how the narrator sees Sam Fathers growing smaller and smaller as the hunting party leaves him behind. I don't really like the term that I chose but I couldn't think of anything else. LW
1615 Themes and Motifs Objects Antlers
1627 Themes and Motifs Past Old days
1630 Themes and Motifs Values Moral authority
1646 Themes and Motifs Objects Parasol
1647 Themes and Motifs Objects Surrey
1653 Themes and Motifs Objects Trunk
1658 Themes and Motifs Objects Umbrella
1666 Themes and Motifs Community Wedding
1667 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival
1671 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Old days
1678 Themes and Motifs Texts Civic records
1681 Themes and Motifs Objects Iron box
1689 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Accident
1695 Themes and Motifs Values Liberty
1700 Themes and Motifs Objects Padlock
1702 Themes and Motifs Naming Place name
1705 Themes and Motifs Texts Letter of protest
1709 Themes and Motifs Texts Newspapers
1719 Themes and Motifs Animals Race horse
1721 Themes and Motifs Money Reward
1723 Themes and Motifs Money In prospect
1725 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Disappearance
1731 Themes and Motifs Texts Ledger
1739 Themes and Motifs Animals Chickens/roosters
1740 Themes and Motifs Body Stomach/belly
1741 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Separation
1774 Themes and Motifs Psychological Motivation
1779 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Divine plan
1783 Themes and Motifs Naming Alias
1788 Themes and Motifs Death Corpse
1789 Themes and Motifs Money Expenses
1790 Themes and Motifs Death Coffin
1797 Themes and Motifs Objects Pipe
1803 Themes and Motifs Objects Monument
1806 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Reminiscence
1807 Themes and Motifs Psychological Manipulation
1809 Themes and Motifs Animals Squirrel
1810 Themes and Motifs Objects Gun
1812 Themes and Motifs Time Living in the present

Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past.
1814 Themes and Motifs Past Recent past

For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.)
1820 Themes and Motifs Animals Mosquitoes
1823 Themes and Motifs Objects Basket
1824 Themes and Motifs Objects Wreath
1825 Themes and Motifs Objects Ballot Box
1827 Themes and Motifs Objects Pokeberry juice
1830 Themes and Motifs Animals Named bear Ben
1832 Themes and Motifs Naming Importance of 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
1840 Themes and Motifs Animals Tigers
1841 Themes and Motifs Animals Elephants
1863 Themes and Motifs Home Homecoming
1864 Themes and Motifs Psychological Will to endure
1881 Themes and Motifs Memory Uncertain
1883 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Ghost
1887 Themes and Motifs Objects Wisteria
1894 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Creation
1897 Themes and Motifs Art Poetry
1906 Themes and Motifs Objects Photograph
1920 Themes and Motifs Community Secrecy
1921 Themes and Motifs Psychological Trauma
1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
1924 Themes and Motifs Morals Honor
1925 Themes and Motifs Objects Sword
1926 Themes and Motifs Character Teetotaler
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
1932 Themes and Motifs Time Frozen / Static
1933 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sun / Sunlight
1934 Themes and Motifs Art Music
1938 Themes and Motifs Appearance Similarity
1946 Themes and Motifs Objects Phaeton
1947 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Place
1948 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Threshold
1950 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Triumph
1957 Themes and Motifs Home Homesickness_Longing for home
1968 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Livestock
1982 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Belatedness
1985 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Open secret

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
1986 Themes and Motifs Animals Fireflies
1992 Themes and Motifs Objects Saddlebag
1994 Themes and Motifs Values Determination
1995 Themes and Motifs Time Running out
1997 Themes and Motifs Money Gold

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