Felicia Pearson's Symbolism In The Book 'Grace After Midnight'

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Essay 2 The book Grace After Midnight is the story of Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and her life struggles. Starting in the first excerpt, one can see her perseverance, love, struggle, fall, fight, and striving spirit. It is made clear by not only the narrative but also the symbolism in the book. She chooses symbolism explicitly to explain her narrative in different instances. At every stage in her life, at every turning event, the symbolism used unabashedly puts out her feelings. Felicia Pearson struggled since the beginning of her existence as a fetus itself, and this novel never fails to express that. It is everything about her conflicts with different circumstances and relationships thrown at

Felicia had fantasies where she would get a glimpse of her true self. It is true as per many excerpts from the novel Grace After Midnight. One can see how she yearns to change her current life into something different and more desirable. She doesn’t want to be a part of the reality that her current life is. It’s also a little disheartening coming from a small girl. She has faced so much in life at such a young age. She was threatened by death twice, and although she emerged a fighter, she seemed to want to be invincible. It shows her desire to not face those instances again, trying to avoid them in her own childlike manner. As she expresses- “The Smurfs are the opposite of death. Smurfs never die. Smurfs live forever in a dreamland where I want to be.” (Pearson, 10) In fantasy, a person tends to want what they cannot have and similar is in the case of Felicia. She wants to be in a land where death doesn’t roam around. Because who will it kill? Smurfs are all invincible. It also implies that for certain reasons, she feels this is a clear indication of feeling threatened by the current surroundings. Not exactly the house she lives in, but maybe the place she lives in. It wasn’t a very good time for the black, and adopted kids to grow in, and it’s clear through Pearson’s expressing a need for

At various points in life, everyone meets with choices, and what one makes of these choices is all that matters. Similarly, Felicia made a choice of filling her life with Grace after being stuck in a long and tiring Midnight. It is about how life has conflicts and how one can still manage, to walk out the negative and come to the positive. For when her birth mother forgets her responsibility, her foster mom, takes her as own and showers the love she deserves. But, it's not only about celebrating the positives, it's also about learning from the negatives. Pearson through this story establishes that conflicts affect a person but the person gives them the power to ruin him. So, choose to emerge a winner, therefore, survive and fight. It's a story of belief to find hope in the strangest of ways possible. Additionally, it's somewhere about discovering oneself, learning, and coming out stronger than before. Grace After Midnight is everything its name stands for a true story from darkness to light, and adding to its beauty is the use of symbols, to give the readers a ground to think and build their own