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Themes and Motifs: Death Child

Parent Term

  • Death

Sibling Terms

  • Afterlife
  • Ambiguous circumstances
  • And inheritance
  • Animal bear
  • Animal Dog
  • Animal horse
  • Animal mule
  • Anticipation of death
  • Bones
  • Burial
  • Burial society
  • Car accident
  • Coffin
  • Compared to living
  • Compared to sleep
  • Corpse
  • Death by water / Drowning
  • Death sentence
  • Deathbed
  • Denial
  • Disease
  • Dying wish
  • Epitaph
  • Eulogy
  • Execution
  • Funeral
  • Funeral pyre / cremation
  • Future
  • Hearse
  • Imagined
  • In childbirth
  • Indian burial practices
  • Killing oneself slowly
  • Left for dead
  • Like death
  • Liminal
  • Longing for death
  • Moment of
  • Moving a dead body
  • Murder
  • Of parent
  • Plane accident
  • Preparing for death
  • Respect
  • Response to
  • Spousal
  • Suicide
  • Suspicious
  • Wake

Tagged Events

Go Down, Moses, 258 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Domestic›Housekeeping
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Death›Child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Requiem for a Nun, 154 (Event)
Environment: Public›Jail
Cultural Issues: Race›Black incarceration | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Death›Child | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash