The black cat seems to me to symbolize many different things. I feel that the everytime she sees that cat it’s a warning that something bad is soon to happen. I feel that the black cat also represents reincarnation and when Sophia is not there as a ghost or in spirit she is secretly a lonely, dark cat that tries to scare everyone around her. Another piece of symbolism that I noticed while reading the book is Sophia's doll and dress. When Florence where’s the dress and carries the doll around her room she seems to symbolize Sophia when she was alive.
Throughout the passage from The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses Hester’s baby, Pearl, to illuminate the theme of beauty in a dark place. Once released from prison, Hester, an adulterer, becomes a public spectacle. Through this hard time, Hester has her daughter Pearl to soothe her and to bring her strength and hope for a better future. By using vivid imagery and juxtaposition, Hawthorne depicts Pearl as Hester’s happiness, light, and beauty during a sad and lonely time. While in Prison, Hester is all alone and depressed.
Hoping my apology is enough… She smiles. ‘I’m really sorry too.’ Relief floods through me. I throw my arms around her and hug her so tight that she actually lets out a little squeak,” (Page 222). When Rachel and Marisol, two long time best friends, get in a major fight, the only thing left to do is turn around and forgive one another - which is
Layers of illusions are burned away and all Paul has left is reality. In Willa Cather’s tragic short story “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament,” the flowers capture the reality world Paul departs from. For instance, critic Sherry Crabtree asserts that the red carnation symbolizes Paul’s alienation from the world of Cordelia Street (Crabtree 206). Crabtree observes the patterns of how the flowers reveal Paul’s negative outlook of life. On the other hand, some critics claim that the flowers capture the fantasy world Paul envisions.
Again finding symbolism within an object she conveys the theme with the narration of the Tom Cat at the very beginning of the book and at the very end of the book. She describes how the cat would jump through the window at night and onto her chest, and “some mornings I would find my body covered with paw prints in blood; I looked as though I'd been painted with roses” (Dillard 1). When she wakes she questions where the blood came from, and acts with an innocence of the circumstances surrounding her; she looks in the mirror examining the circumstances; however, Dillard only recognizes the evils as the “mark of Cain” (Dillard 2). Conversely, at the end of the book she uses the symbol of the tom cat again except this time she looks without tunnel vision. This time when she looks in the mirror she does not see the roses the marks left but “ashes, or fiery sprouts, and I gape appalled, or full of breath;” she sees life rising from them (Dillard 270).
Night Analysis “The three ‘veterans’ with needles in their hands, engraved a number on our left arms. I became A-7713. After that I had no other name (31).” The book Night, by Elie Wiesel is about the author’s life during the Holocaust. At the age of fifteen, Elie’s normal life crashed as he was taken into the world of concentration camps.
In addition, the search for self-identity is viewed as important in today’s society. Thus, these confliction attributes lead the reader to identify Edna as morally ambiguous. Categorizing complex characters as purely good or purely evil is not one of the easiest of tasks. As a result, it is best to characterize them as morally ambiguous. In Edna’s case, she is morally ambiguous due to her romantic affiliations and role-defying actions, but both are immensely vital to Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” as a complete whole.
He, unlike Edna, cannot escape the confines of society as Edna is still married to Leonce, a fact that he is well aware of. Edna has embraced her awakening and has rejected societal norms; however, Roberts’s unreciprocated love serves as a sign to Edna that she is truly alone in her awakening. The relationship between Edna and Robert serves as a constant reminder that Edna is still confined by social
In Elie Wiesel's memoir, "Night," the reader is taken on a follows journey through the haunting recollections of the Holocaust and the transformative effects it had on Elie. Within the confines of the concentration camps, Elie confronts the devastation and brutality that ravaged his faith in God and plunged him into a world of darkness and despair. The title "Night" holds profound significance, resonating with a multitude of deep meanings. The choice of the title “Night” explores the multifaceted nature, delving into its representation of a world without God as well as the metaphorical darkness and despair that permeates throughout the camps. Through his memoir, Elie Wiesel unveils the dark underbelly of the Holocaust, exposing the fragments of faith, the atrocities witnessed, and the loss of humanity that ultimately led to the compelling title of his memoir, "Night."
As I read on about Ruth’s reaction to meeting her best friend again, my eyes started to get a little watery with tears of happiness. I was able to imagine their feelings of seeing a best friend after so long. They cried and hugged when they saw each other, I would do the same if I was one of them. They still keep in touch and remain close today after reuniting. This reunion made me happy because a bond that was once lost was found again.
Author Kate Chopin of The Awakening theorizes “That outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions.” Margaret Atwood ponders upon this ideal in her bildungsroman Cat’s Eye, in which protagonist Elaine Risley of a unique upbringing encounters life at a traditional school, in which her intrinsic values are tested by her so-called peers Cordelia, Grace, and Carol. The social conformity Elaine was forced to undergo caused her to lose herself in the process, creating the plot for the novel. Elaine’s changes in social construct, internal struggle of morality, and lack of supervision created the depressed state she portrayed throughout the novel. Had this deterioration of the self not been included in Cat’s Eye, the work would dismiss
Once her family moves to Toronto after the war to settle down, she was approximately eight years old. At that time, circumstances changes for Elaine who feels unhappy, helpless and yearns for female friends as she has no female friends yet (Vijay Singh Mehta 179). As Pavla Chudějová (34) has suggested in “Exploring the women’s experience”, Elaine become conscious of the society’s gender restrictions for the first time when she starts going to school. At school, Elaine follows the rules where she has to wear skirts to school and “the girls hold hands; the boys don’t” (CE 50-51), as well as to enter the building through the “grandiose entranceways with carvings around them and ornate insets above the doors, inscribed in curvy, solemn lettering: GIRLS and BOYS.” (CE 51) which confuses her and
In the story “The Sign of the Cat”, the themes everybody needs help and learning from mistakes really show up throughout the story. Both show how Chet developed as a character. The first theme, everybody needs help, show up the most. In the very beginning of the story, Chet and his grandma are taking in three men who knocked on their door for a place to stay. These three men don’t have jobs, shelter, food, and money.
For instance, In Cat 's Eye Atwood depicts pockets of wilderness and indeterminacy which serve as a space for inscribing feminine difference, and functions as an excess term which challenges human attempts to force a particular sequence, rationality, and predictability on their surroundings, by making the wilderness `safe '. The central image of Atwood’s Cat’s Eye is clearly a blue cat’s eye marble, which re appears a number of times during the course of Elaine’s turbulent journey toward maturity. When it is introduced in chapter12 (66), where Elaine elaborates on the game of marbles itself, its value seems to be its beauty. Although she does play marbles at school risking, the loss of her cat’s eye marbles, she actually risks losing the blue one. Instead, she keeps it in her red plastic purse.
The contrast between appearance and reality exists in the world, and remains extremely prominent in literature. Irony exists in literature to show this differing perspective of reality, while foreshadow gives the reader minor hints at what the author actually plans to happen at the end. Symbolism usually appears in literature when an author gives an item a deeper meaning than the actual meaning. All play a crucial role in the creation of the highly-entertaining and highly-regarded short story, “The Open Window.” After reading the short story, “The Open Window,” and researching the life of Saki’s, the reader can determine that the most influential literary elements used include verbal and situational irony, foreshadowing Vera’s intentions,