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Themes and Motifs: Time Living in the present

Description

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.

Parent Term

  • Time

Sibling Terms

  • Abrupt shift in time
  • And change
  • Anticipation
  • Awareness of time
  • Being in time
  • Being late / tardiness
  • Being on time / punctuality
  • Being outside of time
  • Continuity
  • Cyclical
  • Duration of time
  • Frozen / Static
  • Future
  • Just in time
  • Long passage of time
  • Lost time
  • Measuring time
  • Past
  • Permanence
  • Return to present time
  • Routine
  • Running out
  • Series of events experienced as long duration
  • Simultaneity of time
  • Timelessness
  • Town clock
  • Transcended
  • Travel back in time
  • Unsynchronized clocks
  • Watch
  • Working day

Tagged Events

"Lion", 199 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Landmark | Natural›Woods | Weather›Sun
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Fury | Mental›Realization | Physical›Hammering | Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Squirrel | Objects›Gun | Past›Recent past | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
The Town, 315 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›April
Actions: Mental›Changing one's mind
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics