Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Going fast
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Escape / Departing through a window
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Old insult (abiding affront)
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Actions: Movement›Driving | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Place›Spring | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Movement›Driving | Movement›Getting closer
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Bookishness | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Actions: Communication›Spanish | Play›Betting | Work›Horse training
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Place›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Wealth | Education›Mentorship
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs | Body›Flesh | Memory | Objects›Car | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Shakespeare
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Actions: Physical›Escape from confinement
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shirtless | Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Drugs
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Actions: Movement›Flight | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Clothes›Driving gear | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Redemption | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Crowd | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Picture/image | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Confused din | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Communication›Without words | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Speech | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Preserving order | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Moral authority | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Institutional›Minister and parishioner | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Diction›Accent | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Verbal›Disagreeing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Country vs city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Themes and Motifs: Money›Check | Money›Silver dollar | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Death›Longing for death | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Education›Graduation | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Character›Resolve | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses