Laura Symbolism

As solely a student, I will tell you that Lauren is an amazing student. In a classroom environment, Lauren is knowledgeable about many subjects, participates often, and always seeks to learn more. Specifically in social studies, Lauren has an extensive knowledge of international, historical, dates; events; and people. With every book that we read in English, Lauren is able to find metaphors that I never would have noticed.

What is a writer? Many may picture those with a great love of books and literature, those who can find deeper symbolism and meaning behind stories that others write. However, this mold does not fit everyone. There are those, such as Linda Barry, who don't fit in with their fellow writers but still find success. In her comic Lost and Found, Barry uses her own life as an example to argue that one can find success as a writer despite not fitting in the box or possessing the skills typical of one.

What might a person do if their girlfriend told them that she was pregnant on their 16th birthday? In Angela Johnson's, The First Part Last, a 16 year old boy named Bobby had to face this very question. Some people might be jubilant while some might be distraught. Bobby had a difficult choice to make. He could either keep the onus of a baby and come of age, or he could leave the baby and lead his childish life for who knows how many years. It took him a decent amount of time but Bobby finally made his decision. Angela Johnson used three specific symbols to show that Bobby did, indeed, come of age.

Bobbie Ann Mason uses symbolism in her story “Shiloh” to depict a marriage that is disintegrating. Mason uses many symbols in the story, to help the audience visualize what standing the couple’s ways of life are in. Whether it be an organ, a mother, drug use, or the city of Shiloh, most objects in the story have a symbolic meaning for the audience to decipher.

The Mirabal Sisters first became famous because they were four strong women who opposed the dictationship of Leonidas Trujillo and involved in clandestine activities against his regime. They made a political movement against Trujillo, who was the country's official president from 1930 to 1961. The group’s name was The Movement of the Fourteenth of June. But Three of the sisters were assassinated on November 25 in 1960. For that reason the assassinations turned the Mirabal sisters into "symbols of both popular and feminist resistance" and also Salcedo was renamed Hermanas Mirabal Province on november 21 in 2007. They Being globally recognized as a symbol of social justice and feminism, the sisters have inspired the creation of many organizations

I feel like in some cases I am a lot like her. I especially feel like this because I deeply care and worry for the horrendous things children in other countries endure, and how heart wrenching it is that they can’t escape the shackles placed on them by their oppressors. She represents a new place for kids like Ishmael to feel comfort and trust again which is important when these children enter society. When they open up to her it really proves . It’s a major message because it shows that people who have experienced such traumatic things can return to the state they were in before the war; happy and innocent. All of this is due to people like Laura who have patience and love for these kids and teens. That is why Laura is my favorite character as she represents what someone with patience and love can

There is a bible proverb that states, "In everything you do, put God first…" In laymen's term, is as we are on our journey of life, we should carry the message of God in all that we do. In the story "A Good Man in Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, it is about a family on a trip from Georgia to Florida for a vacation and the troubles they run into on the road. One of the characters is the Grandmother. She is a god-fearing woman, in her own way, but is miss guided in her religious ways. Another character is the Misfit, he is an escaped convict on the run from the law. He is trying to make is way to Florida, when he runs into the Grandmother and her family. The Grandmother and the Misfit are "two side of the same coin"; they are both seeking

Many people must come of age at some point in their lives, when they do is left unanswered. Bobby in book by Angela Johnson The first part last he had baby when he was 16, throughout the book there was symbols showing the young male came of age, these symbols will show you why he came of age. Bobby is an average 16 year old kid who still had his whole life ahead of him. Then one day he made a mistake and consequently had a new born baby… Alone. In this small book the reader learns about Bobby's struggle to care for feather while trying to be a mature person for his newborn daughter.

"Too late you're out of time.Be a grown-up" pg.14. In this part of the book bobby is going to have a child. The quote means that Bobby has no time to be a kid he is going to have one so he will need to stop being one. Three symbols that show us bobby is coming of age are the basketball, the spray paint and the red balloon.

“ If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change” - wayne dyer. Throughout the story the first part last you see Bobby grow as a person and grow into a man. Miss johnson the author showed how Bobby came of age and learned how to put his new child before himself by using very powerful symbols. These symbols showed the impact of a new child on Bobby’s life and how he grows up because of it.

Great post, In the story “A very old man with enormous wings” there is a bit of irony in the way that the villagers see the angel as a disaster waiting to happen, the Bible stated that angels are spiritual being created by God to serve Him, whereas religious symbolism was used within the story, for example, the Pharisees was skeptical that Jesus was the Savior because of His appearance which did not fit the divinity of how Christ should be, Similarly, the man with enormous wings appear from nowhere goes against the villagers’ expectation and was ridicule.

John Steinbeck was an author who had very many amazing novels. Steinbeck was like no other writer; one of his best books was “Of Mice and Men”. In this book Steinbeck shows how George takes care of Lennie Small. In this paper I will be discussing the symbols of the book, which are Lennie, Candy’s dog, and George and Lennie’s dream farm.

Laura Wingfield has chosen to hide from reality in the play The Glass Menagerie. She seems to live in a world of her own, and hides from everything and everyone outside of the apartment. Laura is terrified of anything new or different. Her mother sent her to business college, but Laura was so afraid that ‘The first time [they] gave a speed-test, she broke down completely – was sick at the stomach and almost had to be carried into the wash –room.’ (p 243). Laura uses her limp as an excuse to hide from the world. She believes that her slight limp makes her crippled and that she cannot be a part of the real world because of it. Laura’s glass menagerie and the victrola act as things which protect her from the real world in the play. Whenever she is

The most prominent symbol of the central theme of Sarah’s key, depicting how choices determine consequences is the key which Sarah always wears around her neck. Sarah used the key to lock her brother Michel in a cupboard hoping to save him from the soldiers who took her family away. She can’t return to unlock the cupboard, and as a consequence her brother dies there. The key, which starts as a symbol of fear and hope becomes a symbol of loss, pain, despair, and guilt. In one of Sarah’s diary entries, she describes how the pain of her brother death becomes more and more unbearable. She is lost without him and cannot find a way to live with the consequences of her choice. She looks at the key and writes,

            Laura appears to be the most important character in the play, perhaps the main character intended by Williams.  Although she also engages in a world of illusion, hers is much different then Amanda's.  She has no pretenses, no real faults to speak of.  She is who