In Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, she uses many symbols to show important moments in her life. One symbol being the broken down house in Welch. In the story the family lived at 93 Little Hobart Street which consisted of a house without indoor plumbing, and no insulation. The roof had constant leaks, and faulty electrical wiring. For example in the text the roof collapses in Brian’s bedroom, so he is forced to go sleep on the porch that wasn’t closed off under a blow up mattress to stay warm and dry.
Through human nature people surroundings influence who they become. The main character Amy is a long way from home, she is snatched by a tornado and taken to Oz. Nothing seems right to Amy at the time she gets there. As she goes through many ups and downs she is picked up by the ORDER, a group of the wicked who have joined together to kill Dorothy. Dorothy is back in Oz and is taking the magic.
In Jeannette Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle, fire symbolizes the instability that the Walls family constantly deals with. Jeannette questions if fire is out to get her and how she “lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire”. Jeannette has this viewpoint due to Rex’s own contribution of unreliability in the household. The fire in this instance also represents the chaos of Rex’s abhorrent alcohol abuse.
Glass Castle: The “glass castle” symbolizes Rex’s; Jeanette’s father’s hope and dreams. Before Lori was born; Rex and Rose had a baby girl whom unfortunately died at nine months. This caused a spiral downfall in Rex’s life making him become bitterer, gloomy, dark, and an increasing consumption of alcohol. But even though that situation occurred he still held on to that dream of building the glass castle. One of the biggest current problem he faces in his life is alcoholism.
Symbols in literature aren’t simply one-sided. When looked at briefly, symbols may seem to be just another simple element in a story. Although when one takes the time to really understand the symbol, it becomes another whole component. In the novel, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the Glass Castle is one of the biggest symbol. Whenever Jeannette’s father, Rex, couldn’t seem to support his family in an adequate way, he brought up the Glass Castle as a promise to his children.
“Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.” Broken for You, a novel by Stephanie Kallos, is about being hurt. It is about family. Most of all, it is about healing, and how family can help you. How a person may be broken, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t grow into something amazing and totally different with help.
In her short story “Marigolds”, Eugenia Collier, tells the story of a young woman named Lizabeth growing up in rural Maryland during the Depression. Lizabeth is on the verge of becoming an adult, but one moment suddenly makes her feel more woman than child and has an impact on the rest of her life. Through her use of diction, point of view, and symbolism, Eugenia Collier develops the theme that people can create beauty in their lives even in the poorest of situations. Through her use of the stylistic device diction, Eugenia Collier is able to describe to the reader the beauty of the marigolds compared to the drab and dusty town the story is set in.
Throughout The Princess Bride, the author included a significant amount of symbolism. The six fingered sword is a great example of symbolism in the text. It's rather odd that a sword of this design belonged to a five fingered man. Inigo's father, Domingo Montoya, was a master craftsman who was commissioned by a powerful noble to create the best sword in all the land. He spent a great deal of time on this sword and expected a reward of equal value.
Toni Cade Bambara uses a paperweight and sailboats as symbols for the significance of money to relate to education and social freedom in her short story “The Lesson”. The paperweight, an object used on desks to keep papers in place, is used to symbolize the force oppressing the African American community, referring to the lack of education that keeps the kids from achieving their full potential. The paperweight allows for the realization that the lack of education in the kids’ lives plays into their social status when Junebug comments that “[she does not] even have a desk” (3). The reader can see that education is not a big part of the kids’ lives, and this concept of holding valuable items down with a weight is difficult for the kids to grasp
In “A Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker, Rosaura tries to fit in throughout the story, but the others see her as nothing more than the maid’s daughter. The others do not take Rosaura seriously because of her social class. In “A Stolen Party” the author uses symbolism to convey a theme that although you try to change you will always be the person others see you as. In the story “The Stolen Party” although you try to change the way other perceive you, you will always be that person in their perspective. For example, “Thank you for all your help, my pet”(Heker page 5).
Birthday Party by Katharine Brush can be categorized as an ambiguous short story. According to Webster’s Dictionary ambiguous means, “able to be understood in more than one way,” shows that Brush’s narrative can be taken as many different ways. In Brush’s short story she uses symbolism, point-of-view, and characterization to make the narrative one that leaves the reader trying to find the underline meaning of the text. Symbolism in the passage is used by the cake “with one pink candle burning in the center” (Brush 7). Brush uses the small candle to make the reader go into deep thought about what the candle really symbolizes.
September 6, 2016 The Human Experience I have a dream that before me stands one of the strongest strongholds on earth. The large, unfamiliar doors of the hold stand atop of a legion of white colored stairs. As I tenderly push open the glass doors and walk into the Library of Congress, the roar of the 100 million voices reverberates underneath the great golden dome. There is a smell, a smell that permeates all within the stronghold.
Words alone may not be enough to get a point across. Poets use symbolism to portray their emotions. An electronic poem allows an author to use ways other than words to symbolize his or her feelings. To Erin Smith, author of “For the Moon”, the moon and its phases represent her ever-changing life as she waits to achieve an unclear goal. An electric poem allows her to make connections to the reader through colors, pictures, and movement.
A Cinderella Story The Cinderella story is a popular archetype that has been present in almost every culture, representing a girl's dream of achieving a happy and wealthy marriage. However, a careful reading of some "Cinderella" folk tales reveals instances of abuse and even incest. In the past, for many girls, the only relief available from abusive households was to marry well. In modern times, some authors present the Cinderella myth in a positive light, while others offer a more feminist interpretation.
What makes a person a person? What distinguishes him from everybody around? Written in Germany by Jacob and Whillhelm Grimm, "Cinderella" introduces a story of a helpless, bullied maiden who love-struck a high-class character-the Prince-who believes he met his "love at first sight" bride-to-be. Throughout the story, the audience is in awe of the Prince's actions and devotion to search for his mystery crush, and along the way, his urge to find his true love reveals his identity of who he is internally. If the fictional Prince was alive and actually human today, he would have a twisted, yet modern, representation of intimidation and curiosity.
