Themes and Motifs: Past Old days

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"A Courtship", 361 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
"A Courtship", 380 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days
Aesthetics: Narrative›Cyclical | Narrative›Frame
"The Bear", 288 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Place›Hunting camps | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Hunting›Tracking | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Snake | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Compass | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
"The Bear", 290 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Past›Old days | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
"The Old People", 203 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Hunting›Turkey hunting | Verbal›Listen
Cultural Issues: Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Turkey | Past›Old days | Story-telling
Relationships: Ancestral
"The Old People", 204 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Squatting | Verbal›Talking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Past›Old days
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Hill dialect | Diction›Native American languages
Absalom, Absalom!, 14 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Middle
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause
Absalom, Absalom!, 149 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Demijohn | Objects›Hammock | Past›Old days
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 10 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Slave hunting | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Race
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 10 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Pony | Objects›Fox-horn | Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fox-horn | Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bumble-bee | Body›Teeth | Objects›Fan | Past›Old days
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Naming self
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 11 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Planning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 13 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Bodily›Drinking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Body›Teeth | Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship | Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 14 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 15 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Evasion | Physical›Pursuit | Play›Betting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Go Down, Moses, 43 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Government›Usurpation | Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Patriarch | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Go Down, Moses, 5 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Widow | Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Go Down, Moses, 6 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Fox hunting | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Past›Old days
Relationships: Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 7 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Gender›Bachelor | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Courtship | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Past›Old days
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 71 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Quail hunting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality | Slavery›Quarters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Economy›Dowry | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Sneaking | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Past›Old days
Go Down, Moses, 8 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Physical›Running
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Go Down, Moses, 9 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Pony | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Go Down, Moses, 9 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Gender›Southern woman
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Requiem for a Nun, 3 (Event)
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: History
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
The Mansion, 421 (Event)
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper
Themes and Motifs: Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Past›Old days
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 66 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair
Themes and Motifs: Past›Innocence | Past›Old days
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan
The Sound and the Fury, 114 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Johnstown, Pennsylvania | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Flood imagery | Language›WhoOoooo | Language›WhoOooooooooooooooo | Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia
The Sound and the Fury, 69 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Genre Conventions›Horror story | Typography/Orthography›Italics