Emasculated Reality

Autumn has been a dance for her entire life, and planned to apply for Juilliard. Tyler always loved to watch her dance until Autumn started hanging out with Sylv. They started dancing together, and Tyler no longer loved to watch Autumn. Her love for dance is a symbol in this book, because when Tyler is almost ready to take his life he decided to take her happiness. Tyler knew she took his happiness, so he took her’s and shot her in the knee. That prevented her to ever dance again. Another object was the gun. For him it was like a microphone in the auditorium, when he was holding it all eyes were on him. He had all control. Lastly, I think the chalk on the front cover were used for symbolism. It shows a bullet going through them, and that could show the teachers in the auditorium trying to help, but only getting shot. They tried their hardest but only ended up not getting anywhere with Tyler. The objects used for symbolism in this book were pretty hard to find, but if you comprehended the book well you could probably find

The two most obvious one’s are the music and drug symbols. Two that one might not catch are the light and darkness symbols. Light being the good, while dark being the bad. When the narrator found out that Sonny got busted and put in jail, he started to think to himself, “I didn’t want to believe that I’d ever see my brother going down, coming to nothing, all that light in his face gone out,” (Baldwin 122). He references the light to a bright and young Sonny. After hearing the news, it reminded him that there were also shadows where there was once light that shined. This vision of his younger brother makes him realize that Sonny was once like the boys he now teaches. Some of his students share and face some of the same darkness’s that Sonny does. “All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone,” (Baldwin 122) The narrator explains how the boys are immersing in darkness and they don’t even know it. Darkness here represents the chances the boys don’t take advantage of and the lack of opportunity they are presented. This darkness that casts over them doesn’t give them hope to want to attempt anything positive. Fate has brought them together but because nothing will ever come their way, they are alone in suffering. This dark reality of living in Harlem leaves no light of hope for these young boys. The narrator now begins to understand the pain and suffering that his students and Sonny go through. Between prejudices towards African American’s in Harlem during the 1950’s and living in severe poverty decreases the chances of them ever escaping the dark reality of life. This setting and darkness make is easy to turn to drugs, crime, and violence

The atmospheric conditions may represent the hardships that the couple had to go through in their relationship, and may also be used contrast the unpredictability of the outside world compared to the steady relationship that the couple have. ‘A Youth Mowing’ is also a poem about relationships, this time it is between a younger couple. The river ‘Isar’ is a symbol of freedom, it represents the way that the men’s lives are. However, this sense of liberty is broken by the ‘swish of the scythe-strokes’ as the girl takes ‘four sharp breaths.’ Sibilance is used to show that there is a sinister undertone to the freedom that the boy has which will be broken by the news that his girlfriend is bringing. She feels guilty for ‘what’s in store,’ as now the boy will have to be committed to spending the rest of his life with her, and paying the price for the fun that they had.

A theme is a unifying or dominant idea in a literary work. Steinbeck described the competition of good versus evil as the story of mankind itself. He believes that every generation to come since Adam and Eve will now be immersed with the struggle of good and evil due to Eve’s curiosity that led to sin, eventually banning both her and Adam from the Garden of Eden. In East of Eden, Steinbeck makes the contest of good versus evil apparent through his contrasting description of the setting, the characters’ opposing personalities, and society’s changing morals.

For example one of the themes used in the novel is family and relationships the theme is used for forms of relationships between different characters. for example akira and his father never had that close bond relationship between a father and a son for instance o page 18 of the novel akira tells the readers about his view of his father " my father was never a father who put you at ease. I always felt he was more like the school inspector, making sure that you were all in order. " this makes the readers sympathise akira so he can never really converse with his father since Akiras father is 'used to never being questioned or stood up to, Kathryn Lomer had picked her themes in the approved manner for her

Symbols have a major impact on both Things Fall Apart and The Poisonwood Bible. They help display the story in different perspectives and help us understand concepts we don’t always pick up on when first reading the novels. These symbols reveal more in depth detail about the themes of each novel as well as add to the development of characters. Some major symbols seen in Things Fall Apart are the locusts which make a reference to the Bible and are a metaphor for the coming missionaries, Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, who symbolizes Okonkwo’s failures, and fire which symbolizes destruction. The major themes in The Poisonwood Bible are the snake which represents a character from the bible, Methuselah who symbolizes the fate of the Congo and the poisonwood tree which symbolizes Nathan’s mistakes.

Motifs are repeated images or symbols that reoccur in stories to suggest a theme. In literary works, motifs are often used produce other literary aspects such as mood, theme, and foreshadowing. They are a crucial literary technique that writers use to create and convey themes. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, relives the story of his stay in the luxurious yet corrupt East, specifically New York. Various motifs and symbols can be found in the story and illustrate key themes to the reader. In the novel The Great Gatsby, the motif of being on the outside and inside works to create the theme of wealth and class throughout the novel.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that a reader can turn again and again, gaining new insights and knowledge into life each time. Sometimes an author uses a motif- a frequently repeated incident or idea -to get a certain theme across to the reader. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee uses motifs to clarify her messages or insights about life. Three specific motifs that Lee uses throughout the whole story are the mockingbird, courage, and walking in someone else's shoes.

A common theme in the book is that of symbolism in language. Pierre Bourdieu, a sociologist, in brought to light the idea of symbolic language. Bourdieu shows that there is two different types of language, signs and symbolism (Bourdieu, 1991). A sign is what it means stop means stop. Symbolism would be what the boys did in their delinquency, they acted out in aggression to thoughts of authority and get punished. In the eyes of the boys they saw that they received more respect afterward.

The two literary elements that help distinguish the works of a dystopia genre are symbolism and conflict. There is a lot of symbolism in the book Anthem. The book is filled with them. It is also filled with conflict. This also goes with the short story” Harrison Bergeron“this story also has a lot conflict in it.

Another powerful symbolisms was when Jim meets the girls for a picnic. The symbol of the plow against the powerful sun. The third symbol is the rattlesnake and it 's symbol of Jim becoming a man. The girls reminisce as does Jim at the picnic. The girls remember the beautiful wonderful memories of their homelands and contemplate they 're great struggles to make it in America. At the end of their picnic the silhouette of the pile against the setting sun symbolizes the plow like the pioneer spirit of strength, beauty in all inspiring greatness of nature like the sun. “Presently we saw a curious thing: there were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-wash sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disc rested on the high fields against the horizon, and black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We swing trophy, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. And some upland farm, a pile have been left standing in the field. The sun was thinking just behind that to find across the distance was the horse on a light, it 's third against the sun, it was exactly contained within the circle of the disk; The handles, the tongue, the share-Black against the mountain ride. They are at wise, heroic in size, A picture the sun. Even while we were whispering about, our vision disappeared; The ball dropped and dropped until the red tip meet with the earth. The field below us was dark, the sky was growing pale, and that forgotten

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

During the Cold War, tensions were high between the United States of America and the USSR. These two countries held massive power and weapons that would be able to destroy the world with a single button. Because of the tension of nuclear war, The United States was in constant fear that one wrong move by any country involved could result in human extinction. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut uses symbolism to relate the setting, characters, and events to the Cold War that was taking place at the time the book came out. The book uses symbolism that attracts the reader with fictional characters that unfortunately participate in these events, that can relate to the “what if” factor of the Cold War.

In the short story The Destructors, Graham Greene uses symbolism to illustrate the negative effects of childhood neglect. The story follows a gang of young boys as they plan the demolition of a historical house built by the wealthy Christopher Wren. The story’s most symbolic character, and the gang’s now leader, Trevor or T. has been neglected by his busy father and socialite mother causing him to have a childhood lacking nurture. After his father loses his job and becomes a clerk Trevor’s family drops on the social latter, which seems to have a positive effect on T. because the absence of parenting lead him to hate the rich and become emotionless. Greene shows T.’s lack of emotion in the conversation he has with

As he screams “Fuck” it symbolizes his burdens being lifted, then as he torments his family by finally exposing their flaws he begins to change, and realize he needs to grow. The directors use this to reinforce to the audience that to grow and change the family needed to be aware of their own obstacles, and from this they can begin to heal and grow. Dayton and Faris intentionally used Dwayne as he is seemed to have the most dedication, with his vow of silence, and they used this to contradict that dedication allowing us to realize that it was in fact harming instead of helping him grow. They do this by emphasizing his panic attack and break down in the car with high tempo non-diegetic music, creating a frantic mood. The directors use his break down to reinforce that to change and grow the characters must face their own obstacles. They want us to question what is holding us back from personal growth? Through the symbolism of Dwyane it allows us to comment on human nature, and our primal instincts. How we as humans adapt and change, we an obstacle becomes apparent. The philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus stated ‘Cold things grow hot, the hot cools, the wet dries, the parched moistens.’ He took this observation of nature and applied it to human nature. The allegorical significance being that we are constantly evolving to adapt to our environment, physical, and mentally. We change our views for selfish reasons for survival, only changing when we are forced to by our