In this book Glory is overwhelmed with how her town is handling people who are different than they are. She realizes that her favorite local pool is closing down so colored people can’t swim with the whites. Glory becomes an activist herself and writes a letter to the newspaper lining which makes her preacher father proud. Therefore, the theme of this book is to treat everyone equally, such as when Glory’s friend Frankie from Ohio drinks out of the “colored fountain”. Also, when Glory’s sisters boyfriend that he was arrested for sitting with a “colored friend” at the white table.
Prince Salehi NBE3U1.60 Ms. Tasneem 17 May 2023 What Is Behind The Blue Door? Imagine a world without a “blue door”, where everyone’s voice is trapped shut. Without that spark in the world we have nothing really to look upon at. In this paper symbolism and theme will be mentioned based on “Blue Against White” by Jeannette C. Armstrong. In this essay there will be mentions talking about what the blue door highlights and symbolizes.
“The Indians called it Wakan, a reference to the clarity of its waters. Now it was fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred murky remains of bonfires. There was a single ravaged island a hundred yards from shore, so stripped from vegetation it looked as if the air force had strafed it. We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff the rich scent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets.” (Boyle 168) “Greasy Lake”, written by T. Craghessan Boyle
As the title of the novel suggests, the color yellow is one of the largest and most important symbols in A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. The color’s effects can best be seen in Rayona with the yellow raft at Bearpaw Lake, but can also be seen in Christine and Ida’s stories. The color yellow clarifies many of the novel's themes, including how each individual perceives the same situation differently, how reality shatters illusions, and how characters seek feelings of internal peace and permanence. Native Americans find symbolism in many everyday objects, including colors. They believe yellow is an opposing symbol, on one hand it denotes happiness, joy, and content, but on the other it is a color of cowardice, deceit, and hurt.
The image on page 39 is the picture I am choosing to journal over. The wolf has triangle red eyes, sharp triangle teeth, a slithering red tongue. The image shows the wolf creeping around a tree and spying on Little Red Triangle; the background is a light purple. I chose this picture because I believe it shows the reason that Molly Bang was trying to make throughout the book. On the page before this it shows the same image, however, the background is white.
In a farming community with people living monotonously doing farmworks. Kate Morrison, the protagonist, portrayed a compelling story named Crow Lake. The Morrison family had four kids and was part of the farming community in Crow Lake. The parents died in a car crash and Luke, the eldest took responsibility with Matt together to look after Kate and Bo. They encountered countless problems like money shortage, who should sacrifice their education, or who should look after the younger sisters.
In “Still Life in Yellow with Browns and Blacks”, Vievee Francis uses irregular syntax to talk about racism in Texas and the hardships that a black girl faced while living in Texas. The irregular syntax in “Still Life in Yellow with Browns and Blacks” mimics the context of the poem and it also makes the poem more fast-paced. In the lines that Francis chooses to use regular syntactic structures slows the poem down. Throughout the book Francis plays with sentence structure and punctuation as a way of setting the tone of the poem and changing the speed of the poem. This is apparent in poems such as “Say It Any Way You Can” and “Fishing Hole”.
The purpose of the opening scene of Black Boy was to set the stage for a tale of hope and perseverance; while growing up in Jim Crow South as an African American. Wright achieves this purpose by recounting an incident that greatly impacted his life, a fire he started as a small child. The incident is prefaced by Wright’s struggle with his family and the lack of security, love and acceptance; “dreading the return of my mother, resentful of being neglected.” This leaves Wright hungry for attention and this leads to an idea, the idea leads to severe consequences. Wright uses personification and metaphors effectively through a first-person view so the reader can feel the severity of the problems.
“When I asked her if she was white, she’d say, “No. I’m light skinned,” and change the subject again.” (Ch.4, pg.15) Ruth’s changing the topic of racial issues caused even more perplexity and insecurities within James. Because of his uncertainty, it was very difficult for James to decide how he fits into his conservative society. Also, in his community it was only the McBride siblings who seemed to come from the interracial family which made them partially feel like
Ray Bradbury used symbolism, similes, and metaphors in The Veldt, in order to allow the family’s true colors to break the surface. Having multiple forms of symbolism allowed readers to let their imagination wander into how they interpreted the story and its meaning. The metaphors and similes handed readers something easy to compare the story to. Overall, Ray Bradbury’s excellent use of author’s craft made the short story interesting and fun to dive into.
Green is a very prominent color in the story. Cassia chooses a green dress for her matching ceremony because it brings out her eyes. She says, "I like the idea that, for one night, I don 't look like everyone else"(page number). This shows her wish to stand out from the crowd and be unique. Green also represents Cassia 's strength.
Hemingway’s use of trains/tracks as a symbol occurs in Big Two Hearted River, Canary, and Hills Like White Elephants. First, In the story Big Two Hearted River, The choice that Nick mad is to go back into the wilderness to deal with his PPsD. To get there, he takes a train, the train to his future. Nick got off the train and...”The train went on up the track out of sight...” (para 1). Nick has to get off the train to go to the wilderness until he is mentally stable and whole.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway takes place on the seas of Cuba and conveys the story of an old man who struggles with catching fish for 85 days. Santiago, an old fisherman, participates in literal battles throughout the span of the novella. Over the course of the story, Santiago goes up against a giant marlin that proves to be a feisty competitor, a group of vicious sharks vying for the marlin, and he is also challenged by the difficulty of transporting the mast of his skiff to his shack once he returns from his trip on the sea. With the usage of characterization and symbolism, Hemingway demonstrates Santiago’s tenacious persistence, in order to show that hard work doesn’t always result in a positive outcome. On his 85th day out to sea, Santiago encounters a marlin who resists his attempts at catching him leading to a two-day feud.
Junior and senior are both very similar, but also so different. They grew up in the same place, at the same time, but lived two completely different lives. Senior lived an eventful life doing a lot when he was younger, but now in his old age, he just wants to die. While junior is the exact opposite, junior’s life was boring for most of his life until two girls on a scooter made him stumble. As a result, junior passes away, leaving senior alone without a special friend.
Green in contrast to the blue of the sky.” Water, sky and earth are integral parts of this remarkable, profound novel about the complex emotional adaptation to the ramifications of a
