Themes and Motifs: Values Determination

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Absalom, Absalom!, 129 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Carcassonne | Allusion, Literary›Camelot | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Ripple | Figures of Speech›Shell | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 148 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Dragon's teeth | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 25 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Mental›Discovery
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Slavery›Metaphorical
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Temporal discontinuity
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
As I Lay Dying, 137 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Water moving / flowing | Public›Bridge | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Care | Emotional›Worry | Movement›Crossing
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Character›Duty | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Courage | Values›Determination | Values›Sacrifice
Aesthetics: Tone›Apocalyptic
As I Lay Dying, 89 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Clean | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Injured | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Community›Opinion | Death›Funeral | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial›Kinship | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Tone›Humorous
Flags in the Dust, 43 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Weather›Cloud | Weather›Fog
Actions: Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity | Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Go Down, Moses, 206 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Starvation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Character›Forbearance | Values›Determination
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Go Down, Moses, 263 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Travel
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Hamlet, 113 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Need to be educated | Entertainment›Football
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Values›Determination
The Hamlet, 50 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover | Animals›Cows | Values›Determination
The Mansion, 369 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate
Themes and Motifs: Values›Determination
The Reivers , 244 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Physical›Praying
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Values›Determination
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
The Reivers , 296 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Time›Series of events experienced as long duration | Values›Determination | Values›Refinement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed