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Symbolism In Gulls By Elie Wiesel Crane By Stephen Crane

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The underlying symbolism can be used in order to reference death or the surprise upcoming of death. Crane “introduces birds of ill omen to characters out of their element” (Classen 133). In the beginning of the story, Crane’s gulls appear and “seem to question the men’s presence in their realm: ‘Often they came very close and stared at the men with black beadlike eyes’” (Classen 133). When a Canton flannel gull lands on top of the injured captain’s head, the sailors interpret it as “somehow gruesome and ominous” (Crane 31). Crane uses the sea gulls, in order to foreshadow the hardships to come, as the men’s difficult situation gets more and more intense. While everyone was asleep, and the correspondent was left alone to row. The correspondent
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