Drawing: A Little Girl Stretching her Hand to Touch the Rain, Waiting for the Rainbow

The world is a rainbow is a song, sung by Greg Scelsa. The song creates diversity within the classroom because throughout the song it educates children as well as all listeners on the different colors of this world. Like Greg states in his song, “And when we work together, it’s such a sight to see. The world is beautiful when we live in harmony.” It educates on the importance of respecting others as well as working together to make the world a better place. “The world is a rainbow” is really not intended for any age group in particular. It can range from toddlers to children of all ages. This song can be displayed on an everyday basis for children by incorporating the song in activities that children may be doing. Wither it may be positive

The rain is the key of the story making everything feel sad, nervous and curious. The author tries to create as horrific a setting as possible. In the quote, “March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body and washing away the blood that poured from his open wound.” makes me feel spooked. I can imagine a person lying on his side with blood spilling out, washing away by the rain creating a red puddle. For example, if Andy was lying in a field of grasses, with no clouds, clear blue sky and the sun brightly shining, I will would not feel as frightened reading the story. The rain was also a good thing as it helped Andy remember the good moments in his life, in the lines, “The rain was soothing somehow”, “Rain is sweet, I'm Andy” these lines tell me Andy is realising he’s dying that’s when he remembers the time he danced in the rain with Laura. He wants to forget about the gang ‘Royal’ but only think of Laura in the last few moments before dying. In these moments time seems slow and painful because the rhythm of the rain, there Andy’s having regrets about joining the gang who cost him his life. He thinks about how young he was and the life he wanted to live in the future. His whole face and body are hot but it’s cooled by the raindrops symbolising how much Andy loves the rain and thinks it’s soothing thing washing away his blood and accepting he’s dying

One of the first items the author states is that all symbolism is intentional, there are no accidents when it comes to analyzing famous literature. He describes certain authors like James Joyce and T.S. Elliot as “intentionalists” or writers who purposely try to control every part of the story through symbolism. The author Thomas Foster teaches us never to overlook anything in a novel even if it be little things like the color shirt they are wearing or what the weather is like outside. Building more off the last statement, precipitation, whilst being a little detail added into a story, holds a lot of important roles in moving the story along and even providing hardships for characters to overcome. Even more than that though, he says “It’s never just rain”, rain provides as a symbol in the story so that if someone is in the rain it’s almost as if they are being cleansed.

This is to convey two messages. One is the light amber color is used to arise the mood of (Mennonite) farm areas. Second is, not like usual comedy-drama poster that fills some multicolored funny pictures, I have left the ‘white’ space filled with uniform color so that it won’t reduce the seriousness of the story. A similar technique can be found in ‘Sideways’ and ‘American Beauty ’ film posters. The quotations that I’ve used function in two ways. The first quotation, “I’ve got problem with endings” (1), primarily functions as a hook to catch the audience and secondarily as to represent the tragic theme of the story. The second quotation, “it’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness” (173) hinders the philosophical nature of the story, in other word the dramatic seriousness. I have chosen Alexander Payne as my director since translating a non-linear plot into a movie, especially making A Complicated Kindness into movie, would be an impossible task; nevertheless, Alexander has proven his capability and genius in making ‘Sideways’, which shares the same seriousness and genre as A Complicated

* Rain and sun creates rainbows, which symbolize divine promise, peace between heaven and earth.

Rain as an atmospheric weather condition can be mysterious, murky, isolating, and miserable and brings on misery.

There is a beam of light coming from the door along the ground and ending at what looks like the beginning of a big red tree. In this picture it looks like the little red leaf that has always symbolised hope has blossomed and the girl is smiling. This shows how through the distinctively visual you can change peoples understanding of events and moods and how over time situations can change and be healed.

But if it rained the story mood would sneak up on Papa. The hiss and tick on the metal of our big living van distracted him from his papers. Rain on a show night was catastrophe. Rain on the road meant talk, which, for Papa, was pure pleasure.

In a piece of literary work weather is never just weather. Rain, snow, storms, and even rainbows all have their distinct meanings and in most cases usually symbolize something much deeper. Weather can change the entire mood of a novel and this is important because at times authors use weather to symbolize what is going on emotionally with a character. Two works of literature that use weather accordingly and symbolically are Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and The Odyssey by Homer.

The author begins the chapter "It's More Than Just Rain or Snow" by explaining what mood the quote "It was a dark and stormy night" creates. He explains how weather is never placed in a story for no reason. Weather is a factor used to create a mood in the passage. "A sunny day with no clouds in sight..." will create a happy mood while the reader could be imagining themselves in the story being outside on a beautiful clear day with the sunshine hitting them just right. That could put anyone in a cheerful mood, right? If the author started a story with "The rain was beating down on the roof as I realized it had been my first night without him...". Now obviously if the character had just lost someone they would be sad but adding rain to the scene adds the effect of sadness and allows the reader jump in the book to feel what the character is feeling.

country is wet” (115), using the rain metaphor to show that the entire country is vastly impacted

The theme I have selected for my book is “...Despite one’s best effort, humanity will not always return the favor. Life is not a balanced scale; life is a dance of give and take that can leave one person on top of the world and another buried six feet under.” This theme can be linked to my poster’s slogan: “It is possible to be chained by the stories we have yet to tell,” because the chains that bound the Lacks family were the cause of the unjustness they were subjected to. The image I selected represents my slogan and the characters in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because they felt locked up, left to rot as they wondered what had happened to their mother. The chains are the lies, the secrets, and the manipulations that the Lacks family

Rain and other types of climate are also forces that Foster conveys as important to a plot or an entire story. Rain is brought up in chapter 10 of his book and he states that rain is “never just rain”. Rain represents more than just rain, it shows life and fertility, purification, and shows different atmospheres. To represent rain in a greater view, Foster uses the allusion of Noah and the flood to show how the flood had came down from the sky and wiped almost everything off the earth and when it ended, the earth was once again pure. Symbolically, Foster shows how rain can be used as a sort of baptism that removes sin, like the Noah allusion because those who sinned were wiped from the earth. However, at the end of it a rainbow appears promising peace. There is change as the earth is restored to its power it once was before and the rainbow symbolizes that change. The earth was reborn with that allusion Foster conveys

Everyone needs to believe that things are going to get better, particularly when facing challenging or troubling times. Our world is fraught with sadness, misfortune, and adversity, and the world constructed by Ray Bradbury in “All Summer in a Day” is no different. Unending rain, gray skies, and endless dark doldrums beneath the surface of Venus plague the lives of the young children in his short story. And yet, every night when they go to sleep, the young protagonists hope for more. Despite being surrounded by a gray plague of ceaseless rain, the children dream of the sun. In “All Summer in a Day,” Bradbury uses the sun throughout the text to symbolize hope.

This just shows how weather can affect people's moods. At first the storm seemed exciting; getting to leave work and school early sounded like a good thing. However, throughout the day, little things happened that made it no longer be so exciting. And eventually, that excitement was gone and it was replaced by