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Symbolism In The Red Sweater And Club

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As a symbol in the novel, I choose “The Red Sweater and Club. This is one of the first symbols we see in the book. The man with the red sweater, who treated buck and the other dogs poorly, and beats them with his club. We do not know him but he is described by what he is wearing. Judging by his character he is a very cruel and wicked man. In my opinion, in the novel, the red sweater symbolizes hatred, anger, cruelty, rage, or even a person who you will fear to approach just by looking at him because in the novel he is characterized as being an evil person who hates dogs and beats them like in this quote when it says: “He was beaten; but he was not broken. He saw once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He learned the
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