Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
1260 Themes and Motifs Animals Bugs
1324 Themes and Motifs Animals Metaphorical elephant
1393 Themes and Motifs Animals Birds
1535 Themes and Motifs Animals Rat
1590 Themes and Motifs Animals Snake
1719 Themes and Motifs Animals Race horse
1739 Themes and Motifs Animals Chickens/roosters
1809 Themes and Motifs Animals Squirrel
1820 Themes and Motifs Animals Mosquitoes
1830 Themes and Motifs Animals Named bear Ben
1840 Themes and Motifs Animals Tigers
1841 Themes and Motifs Animals Elephants
1986 Themes and Motifs Animals Fireflies
2036 Themes and Motifs Animals Oxen
2043 Themes and Motifs Animals Wolf
2251 Themes and Motifs Animals Pigs
2379 Themes and Motifs Animals Ants
2462 Themes and Motifs Animals Pony
2467 Themes and Motifs Animals Bumble-bee
2473 Themes and Motifs Animals Cows
2486 Themes and Motifs Animals Crickets
2531 Themes and Motifs Animals Pigeons
2570 Themes and Motifs Animals Termites
2581 Themes and Motifs Animals Gamecock
2722 Themes and Motifs Animals Cats
2795 Themes and Motifs Animals Lion
2909 Themes and Motifs Animals Buzzards
2958 Themes and Motifs Animals Fish
3010 Themes and Motifs Animals Alligators
3011 Themes and Motifs Animals Bison
3245 Themes and Motifs Animals Mockingbird
3261 Themes and Motifs Animals Geese
3263 Themes and Motifs Animals Bats
3318 Themes and Motifs Animals Sparrow
3576 Themes and Motifs Animals Gulls
3665 Themes and Motifs Animals Fleas
3814 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects lice
3843 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects mayflies
3857 Themes and Motifs Animals Fish trout
3858 Themes and Motifs Animals Insect fly
3882 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects bees
3883 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects butterflies
3994 Themes and Motifs Animals Beavers
4008 Themes and Motifs Animals Dog-fox
4146 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects crickets
4171 Themes and Motifs Animals Sentience

Created to capture passages which describe an animal as thinking, knowing - specifically, for the way the horse and the hunting dogs "know where" the deer was hiding "as good as we did" in "Race at Morning," a knowledge that is seen is their behavior (299). SR
4177 Themes and Motifs Animals Point-of-view

Created for a moment in "Race at Morning" when the narrator imagines what the hunted deer is seeing and thinking. There may not be other instances of this, but to open up the narrative to the subjectivity of an animal seems worth noting. SR
4357 Themes and Motifs Animals Woodpecker|Lord-to-God
4469 Themes and Motifs Animals Insect boll weevil
4503 Themes and Motifs Animals Swallows
4509 Themes and Motifs Animals Bluejays
4537 Themes and Motifs Animals Giraffe
4666 Themes and Motifs Animals Mice
4775 Themes and Motifs Animals Ducks
4802 Themes and Motifs Animals Turtles
4839 Themes and Motifs Animals Tending to animal
5176 Themes and Motifs Animals Sheep
5303 Themes and Motifs Animals Possum
5304 Themes and Motifs Animals Owl
5573 Themes and Motifs Animals Grasshoppers
5619 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects tick
1243 Themes and Motifs Appearance Complexion
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
1938 Themes and Motifs Appearance Similarity
2019 Themes and Motifs Appearance Nakedness
2090 Themes and Motifs Appearance Cosmetics
2223 Themes and Motifs Appearance Scruffiness
2322 Themes and Motifs Appearance Beautiful/handsome
3476 Themes and Motifs Appearance Ugliness
3480 Themes and Motifs Appearance Baldness
3522 Themes and Motifs Appearance Condition of heaviness
3605 Themes and Motifs Appearance Dirty
3762 Themes and Motifs Appearance Pretending / Feigning
3844 Themes and Motifs Appearance Surface
3845 Themes and Motifs Appearance Depth / deepness
3913 Themes and Motifs Appearance Diminishment / fading
3920 Themes and Motifs Appearance Librarian look
3942 Themes and Motifs Appearance Fatness / obesity
3976 Themes and Motifs Appearance Hair pigtails
3978 Themes and Motifs Appearance Invisibility
4197 Themes and Motifs Appearance Nondescript
4242 Themes and Motifs Appearance Racialized
4434 Themes and Motifs Appearance Feminine
4801 Themes and Motifs Appearance Red necks
5231 Themes and Motifs Appearance As character
517 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Advent
573 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Secrecy

This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR
576 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return
787 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Run away
852 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Mysterious
903 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Desertion-family
989 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Jailbreak
995 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Relocation
1242 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Departure
1280 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return home
1459 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Alarm

This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB
1667 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival
2094 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving home
2503 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival in Yoknapatawpha

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