Themes and Motifs: Naming Child's name

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"Appendix: Compson", 332 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Naming›Child's name | Past›Repetition
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Indiana | Recurring Episodes›Caddy's wedding
"Appendix: Compson", 340 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Borrowing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed
"There Was a Queen", 736 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype
Cultural Issues: Gender›Widow | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Flags in the Dust, 287 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Physical›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnancy
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name | Objects›Flowers Roses | Time›Future
Flags in the Dust, 379 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Letter
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Death›Anticipation of death | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Twins
Flags in the Dust, 394 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Flags in the Dust, 402 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Playing music
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Ronceavaux Pass | Figures of Speech›Chess | Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 51 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Physical›Eating | Work›Gardening
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality | Sexuality›Pregnancy
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness | Community›Wedding | Naming›Child's name
Light in August, 252 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Light in August, 382 (Event)
Environment: Place›Orphanage
Actions: Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Racial identity | Religion›Fanaticism | Religion›God with human characteristics
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording | Diction›Racist term
Light in August, 403 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Shaving | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Proud | Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Dressing
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Light in August, 408 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Mental›Confusion | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
The Hamlet, 218 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Poverty | Education›College | Education›Rural school | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Sexuality›Fecundity
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Nothing to do | Naming›Child's name | Values›Idealism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Launcelot | Style›Character portrait
The Hamlet, 292 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Between planting and harvesting | Time of Year›Spring | Weather›Rain
Actions: Agricultural›Child labor | Movement›Running away | Movement›Surrey
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Rural school | Law›Evidence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Showing up | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
The Hamlet, 295 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Empathy | Work›Blacksmith
Cultural Issues: History›Panic of 1893
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Civic›Charity
The Sound and the Fury, 62 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Carrying | Play›Children playing | Verbal›Complaining | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Dolls | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Scissors | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Narrative›Unreliable narrator | Symbolism›Reflection | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 88 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 134 (Event)
Environment: Public›School
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
The Town, 152 (Event)
Environment: Place›Playground | Public›School
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Suit | Education›Graduation | History›Civil War | Progress›Cars | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Money›Inheritance | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Nickname
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Lookout Mountain | Allusion, Literary›Gulliver's Travels | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 284 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics