Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
4242 Themes and Motifs Appearance Racialized
4250 Themes and Motifs Values Family values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP
4255 Themes and Motifs Body Symbolism

This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR
4256 Themes and Motifs Objects Vegetation
4257 Themes and Motifs Home Getting away
4258 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Individualism

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
4259 Themes and Motifs Character Bravado
4261 Themes and Motifs Home Neglect
4278 Themes and Motifs Objects Matchstick
4281 Themes and Motifs Time Cyclical
4283 Themes and Motifs Home Substitute
4284 Themes and Motifs Past Traumatic
4286 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Balance
4289 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maybe as concept
4294 Themes and Motifs Time Unsynchronized clocks
4306 Themes and Motifs Objects Engagement ring
4317 Themes and Motifs Objects Musical instrument
4318 Themes and Motifs Objects Satchel
4329 Themes and Motifs Character Inexperience
4335 Themes and Motifs Death Epitaph
4339 Themes and Motifs Body Mental disability
4345 Themes and Motifs Character Constitutive moment
4349 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Design
4350 Themes and Motifs Character Self-reliance
4357 Themes and Motifs Animals Woodpecker|Lord-to-God
4362 Themes and Motifs Character Conviction
4365 Themes and Motifs Character Shrewdness
4366 Themes and Motifs Time Simultaneity of time
4367 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Revenge
4368 Themes and Motifs Time Lost time
4374 Themes and Motifs Home Belonging
4398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reunion
4399 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Glory
4401 Themes and Motifs Objects Hatchet
4408 Themes and Motifs Death Disease
4417 Themes and Motifs Objects Camera
4418 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Substitute
4419 Themes and Motifs Texts Accounts
4421 Themes and Motifs Objects tent
4423 Themes and Motifs Objects Flashlight
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)
4427 Themes and Motifs Values Success
4428 Themes and Motifs Death And inheritance
4434 Themes and Motifs Appearance Feminine
4437 Themes and Motifs Art Jazz music
4440 Themes and Motifs Death Plane accident
4441 Themes and Motifs Texts Epitaph
4444 Themes and Motifs Objects rubber tree
4447 Themes and Motifs Exile Alienation from nature
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
4460 Themes and Motifs Character Helpless
4462 Themes and Motifs Death Denial
4469 Themes and Motifs Animals Insect boll weevil
4476 Themes and Motifs Values Family honor
4477 Themes and Motifs Money Money order
4478 Themes and Motifs Character Self-righteousness
4479 Themes and Motifs Character Superhuman strength
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
4484 Themes and Motifs Character stoic
4503 Themes and Motifs Animals Swallows
4509 Themes and Motifs Animals Bluejays
4510 Themes and Motifs Objects Firewood
4511 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Emptiness
4512 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence of sound
4513 Themes and Motifs Money As symbol

I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW
4514 Themes and Motifs Objects Pear tree
4516 Themes and Motifs Objects Saw
4525 Themes and Motifs Home Improvements
4528 Themes and Motifs Body Prosthetic
4534 Themes and Motifs Money Wasting
4535 Themes and Motifs Death Animal mule
4537 Themes and Motifs Animals Giraffe
4538 Themes and Motifs Objects Broom
4539 Themes and Motifs Objects Rope
4544 Themes and Motifs Character Humility
4545 Themes and Motifs Character Stupid
4547 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Property
4559 Themes and Motifs Objects Silverware
4562 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Cannon
4563 Themes and Motifs Objects Cannon
4567 Themes and Motifs Objects Soap
4572 Themes and Motifs Texts Will
4573 Themes and Motifs Psychological Denial
4601 Themes and Motifs Texts Treaty
4604 Themes and Motifs Character Popularity
4606 Themes and Motifs Character Persistence
4619 Themes and Motifs Psychological Rationalizing
4626 Themes and Motifs Objects Military equipment
4641 Themes and Motifs Futility Inability
4642 Themes and Motifs Money Lacking
4646 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Social order|disorder
4650 Themes and Motifs Texts School book
4652 Themes and Motifs Community Ordinary
4656 Themes and Motifs Values Charity
4660 Themes and Motifs Morals Loyalty
4666 Themes and Motifs Animals Mice
4668 Themes and Motifs Texts Note
4670 Themes and Motifs Art Lithographs
4671 Themes and Motifs Past Quest to recover
4674 Themes and Motifs Objects Canteen

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