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Could you imagine running a dog team through a 1,150 mile race in the brisk cold of Alaska. In the book Winterdance Gary Paulsen moves to Minnesota and begins to train dogs to run a trapline. Eventually he acquires more and more dogs and trains them to run the iditarod. By the end of the book he had run the iditarod twice. Gary Paulsen uses motifs, symbolism, and themes to further enhance the reader 's enjoyment of the book.
In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel it shows us that if you ignore your problems they won't go away. In the novel, the Jews are in a cattle car headed to a concentration camp. Mrs. Schächter, a fellow Jew was separated from her two older sons and her husband, and she was devastated because of it. She kept yelling, "Fire! I see a fire!"
Fire stands out the most because he used fire to foreshadow the ghettos and it's easier to spot and recognize when used symbolically. Night and death are commonly used in reference to the text, making it harder to distinguish them from words and symbols. Fire symbolizes Wiesel’s hellish experience in the ghettos with the SS officers, and he makes that very distinct when Mrs.Schächter was used to foreshadow their future. The foreshadowing becomes obvious when the author writes “Jews, listen to me,’ she cried.
In “Forged by Fire” by Sharon M. Draper, Gerald, the main character in the story, grows into a brave man. In the beginning, Gerald starts a fire in his mom’s apartment. Gerald gets scared from the flames, sounds, and heat that he goes behind the couch to hide from the fire. After the fire, Gerald lives with his aunt. On Geralds’s 9th birthday, Gerald’s mom came to the house with a sister for Gerald, but he doesn’t want to see neither of the two.
Do you believe that dogs are man's best friend? Winterdance by Gary Paulsen is a true story about himself, it starts when he moves with his wife to a small house in the woods of minnesota, driving them broke in the process. He starts to run a trapline with dogs and finds his passion, running dogs. Paulsen unconsciously decides to run the Iditarod and we follow him throughout his journey, training, traveling, and finally actually running the race. Gary Paulsen uses symbolism, motifs, and theme to further the reader's understanding and enjoyment of the book.
The ice in this case represented the colder they were, the closer to death the person became. The snow that represented hatred did not only surround him, it became a part of him. But after he felt that coldness, it was described as “a small red flame” and coupled with the poem, “Fire and Ice”, where fire represents desire. The flame in this case represented the want to die. With death quite literally getting closer by the second.
An important symbol that reoccurs in the story is fire. The first appearance of fire in the story was when Madame Schächter envisioned fire while on their way to the camp. Elie has had a nightmare where he sees Nazis burning small infants in a ditch. In the war, Nazis used to cremate their prisoners whether they were dead or alive.
The motif that I chose from the book Night, by Elie Wiesel is “night”. This motif represents both physical and spiritual death, but it also represents death and despair. When Elie uses this word, it symbolizes when something in his life simply goes away, or when he enters a phase of darkness. For example, when Elie states, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed”, he is saying that the night that he entered the concentration camp, it of course changed his life forever, but it also was the night that he stopped trusting in God so much because he didn’t understand how God could be doing such horrible things to such innocent people. Now
Symbolism is a notable feature in Catching Fire (2009) . Through symbolism , Suzanne Collins manages to paint Katniss as the ultimate embodiment of rebellion through transferring her into a mockingjay . " A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist"(92), as it is a result of the Capitol's usage of the japperjays which were sent to spy on the rebels. However, the japperjays failed in their mission so the Capitol left them to die ,but they managed to survive through mating to female mockingbirds . This proves that the existence of the mockingjays is an act of rebellion in itself , an act of defiance excuted by the Capitol's own invention , long before Katniss has been born. .
In Jane Yolen's dystopian short story “Winters King” about a special young boy’s story of his life after his father dies and how his mother remarries to an abusive father, then dies, so the boy runs away. She focuses deeply on symbolism to show how life is precious as she compares life to coins. She also uses symbolism with the season winter to represent death. From the very beginning you know something's up with the coins, and the author gets you thinking that they might represent things such as a prize, cost, or life.
In this essay I am going to be writing and giving explanations about a few questions regarding the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. The questions are as followed, what does the word Night symbolize for Wiesel? Why do I think he entitled his book “Night”? And how does he describe the night time, and how does it compare to “day”? It symbolizes Wiesel horrible experience at the concentration camps.
Robert Frost’s poems explored the nature in a rather deep and dark way. For example, his poem, “After-Apple Picking” is hidden under a mask that looks like a harvester is just tired and wants to go to sleep after a day of picking apple from tree. However, we learned that this poem has deeper meaning than what is being shown on the surface. This poem is about actually talking about death as a deeper meaning. I think it is really interesting how Robert Frost, as a poet, was able to connect two themes that are completely different and make it into a single poem.
2006 Prompt Charles Frazier’s, Cold Mountain, is about a couple who must survive in Cold Mountain, North Carolina, just as the Civil War is ending. Where the author chose to place these characters is key to the entire episodic novel. The action within the mountain’s valleys and peaks is well described to create a sense of isolation to find a meaning in the protagonists’ lives, Inman and Ada. Cold Mountain also is a home, a place where Inman can find his beloved Ada. Frazier chose Cold Mountain to symbolize the strength and toughness of the characters.
“Winter Dreams” was published in 1926. Francis Scott Fitzgerald is most well-known for his novel “The Great Gatsby”. A common theme he is known for is the American dream and how it is corrupt. Fitzgerald enjoys writing about the poor boy chasing after the rich girl. This story is about a man named Dexter Green trying to achieve the American dream by obtaining the girl he adores.
In “Acquainted with the Night”, poet Robert Frost examines the inner workings of a lonely, depressed mentality. Through his extensive use of symbolism, Frost demonstrates exactly how confined and flustered someone in that conditions feels. There are two specific symbols that, if analyzed, unravel the meaning behind the poem: the symbol of darkness, the symbol of walking, and the symbol of large distances. Darkness is a perpetually popular symbol, and in this poem, it is certainly prominent/ Historically, darkness has been used to symbolize malice, evil, sadness — generally, anything adverse.
