“On the reverse side “The Reading of the Cards” was explained. “The ace of diamonds represents brilliancy, or 365 days of sunshine and growing season each year. The ace of spades represents a deepwater-way through the Gulf of California to the Pacific Ocean. The ace of hearts represents a hearty condition of the soil, comprising two million acres of the richest land in the world. The ace of clubs represents power, or the Colorado River, the greatest irrigating and power river in America.”
In the story Dead man’s Pocket It shows details and imagery and how they work through the whole story. Details give life to the story and to the characters. While imagery Helps the reader to relate to the character or to the story. When these two literary elements are put together they make the story realistic. Detailing in Dead Man’s Pocket is a key point to the story the author chooses to describe the story and characters , whether they are important to the story or not.
Edger Allen Poe is an incredible author of horror. His story, The Masque of the Red Death, was an amazing chiller about a party that was ended by a disease. Throughout the kingdom a disease is spreading from citizen to citizen, killing each one who possesses it so the king invites those closes to him to a party where no one can leave and will be safe from the disease but yet in hindsight they were locking themselves in with the disease. Throughout the course of this hair-raising story, several symbols are represented to array Poe’s theme of death. Symbols such as the seven colored rooms, the clock, and lastly the Red Death are all symbols that are displayed to help get Poe’s notion across.
In the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson uses several symbols to tell her story about Miss Strangeworth. One symbol Shirley uses in the short story is Miss Strangeworth’s roses. She devotes herself to the roses more than anything and will take care of them, letting no one take any and keeping them beautiful. They endure more meaning than just plain flowers, they consist of memories, they hold a place ever since Miss Strangeworth’s grandfather built the house she currently lives in. The roses persisted of the care by Miss Strangeworth’s grandmother, mother, and now by her.
Someone dies every day in this world. This is the process of life. Some deaths are from natural causes. In everybody’s life, someday you will have to die. ‘’In the monkey’s paw’’ by W.W Jacobs, the White son Herbert dies.
Sometimes it worked”(92). Symbols are everywhere, from sprinklers in a hospital to a stone to even a imaginary or passed person, they all have meaning and impacts the characters mentally and
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a timeless classic, its revelatory plot and engaging characters landing it a permanent spot as one of America’s most influential pieces of literature. Written by Harper Lee in the 1960’s, the novel navigates the flawed human nature and the rigid social hierarchy present in a small town located deep south in Maycomb, Alabama. Through her use of engaging aesthetic features and stylistic devices, Harper Lee successfully navigates the theme of moral courage throughout the novel to highlight the bigoted views of 1930’s America. This theme is explored through the relentless courage of Atticus Finch, Jeremy Finch and Ms Dubose.
This also might be showing the splatter of blood on the windows. Throughout the story symbolism is used very evidently and purposely. Symbolism and irony is used a variety of time across the story. These literary devices help convince the idea of behind this story Throughout the story his human nature is expressed with these literary devices but his character doesn’t develop into dynamic character, he remains flat. Edgar Allan Poe was successful in conveying that death can’t be escaped as much as someone
A recurring theme in his stories is that the main character acts irrationally or uncharacteristically because he is driven by fear. Symbolism in the “Tell-Tale Heart” represents a certain extent of fear. In
Boys to Lead and an Island to Leave “Leadership is not a position or a title it is action and example,” (Cory Booker). In William Golding’s fiction novel Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack prove that leadership comes in many forms. In the writing, a group of young boys desperately search for a way to leave the island with which they are stranded on after their plane had been shot down. This happens around the 1950s when families sent their children out of Britain in fear of being bombed by the Nazi regime, consequently the boys were then free of rules and structure.
She was shot in the chest, which houses the heart”(193). This again proves that the bandit is evil because he shoots the heart, that symbolizes love and kindness. Another symbol shown through the grandmother is when she was shot she was laying back
They are all used as symbols to create a portal into the protagonist's life. Symbolism is applied in both “The Birthmark” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” to help the reader better comprehend character aspects of selfishness and culpability portrayed in the protagonist. The symbol Edgar Allen Poe incorporated into “The Tell-Tale Heart” is the beating heart. The heart represented the guilt of the narrator’s subconscious for murdering an innocent man.
Although the heart is used with its concrete meaning as symbols in the short story, they are interpreted by more abstract meanings. For instance, the story begins with the use of the heart as a symbol by the character, Mel McGinnis who is a cardiologist - a heart doctor; thus, it gives him the right to speak first. He talks more than other characters in the short story yet; he cannot come up with a clear definition of love.
Throughout the story, there are symbols that significantly expressed the setting and the primary characters involved. Examples of the symbols could include: a heart as it represents Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition as well as her variant emotions; the window, whether it be opened or closed, could represent Mrs. Mallard’s freedom and life in a sense that she wanted to pass before she found new hope through the observance of the sky, and lastly, the chair which could represent Mrs. Mallard’s freedom and newfound independence after being oppressed within her relationship and society’s expectations of women in that period of time. References to the symbolism of the heart could be found throughout the story
For instance, there is an understanding of the woman’s feelings as she describes “a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” and the pattern looking at her “as if it knew what a vicious influence it had” (Gilman 437). The personification is symbolic in displaying how the woman felt as she was stuck in the lonely room with allowance of her husband and Jennie, their child’s nanny, keeping their eyes on her with the dependence of her healing. Additionally, the woman specifies that behind the yellow wallpaper she can see “a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design” (Gilman 438). As the appearance of the wallpaper is personified, the author taps into the hidden meaning that the woman’s sickness is taunting her as she is attempting to heal. In the end, readers are given the most significant piece of personification in the statement, “and then when the sun came and that awful pattern began to laugh at me, I declared that I would finish it today!”
