Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Blame
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence
- Absence as disguise
- Absence as loss
- Absence as presence
- Absence of sound
- Aloneness
- Attempt to find substitute
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Disappearance
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Losing vs never having
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money|Wealth
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Quest to recover
- Racial
- Red necks
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- Vanishing Indian
- War
Tagged Events
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Death›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Adultery
Actions: Emotional›Ambivalence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Determinism›Fated | Values›Family honor | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Coffin | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Wagon
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Vitality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Worry | Verbal›Hushing | Violent
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Fish | Death›Response to
Actions: Domestic›Making a bed | Domestic›Setting the table | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Character›Assertive | Character›Tenderness | Objects›Milk | Time›Continuity
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Offering to buy | Verbal›Dialogue
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Law›Legal issue
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Character›Reliability
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular