Love Medicine Louise Eldrich Analysis

The symbol of fire ultimately represents the relationship with her family and how it affects her. One way this is shown is with her fascination and appreciation of fire. She is captivated with the fact that it can provide warmth and yet be destructive. She would

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then (106).

Flashback throughout the story to show that Grandma has passed leaving Sek-Lung with her most important possession, the jade peony symbolizes their strong bond and love. Another significant symbolism used is the white cat with the pink eyes; it symbolizes that grandma will soon be reunited spiritually with her first love, the albino juggler.

Another symbol that we see in this story “Young Goodman Brown” is the pink ribbons that faith uses in her cap. “He looked back and saw the head of faith still peeping after him with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons” (Hawthorne 137).This seems to symbolize the ribbons as having a sort of positive emotion in this case towards the presence of Goodman Brown. In this story there were quite a few symbols that symbolized important events or ideas through the entire

The significance about the number of times she was shot is notable to be the second most important symbol in the story. “To insist at this moment of mutual revelation that the Grandmother is transformed into the agent of God’s grace is to do serious violence in the story. It is as tendentious as to decree that the bullets in her chest symbolize the trinity” (Bandy, 151). After the grandmother is shot, the story goes on to describe the Grandmother's face. When one thinks someone of being dead, the picture is a blank face. But in this short story it is quoted: “Hiram and Bobby Lee returned from the woods and stood over the ditch, looking down at the grandmother who half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky” (O’Connor). The smiles symbolizes the Grandmother's acceptance. “The smile on the face of the grandmother marks a victory over the grotesque in which the sublime is passed through to the reception of grace in a gratuitous act of love” (Raigor, 189). The symbolism with the Grandmother is very important throughout the entire short story, as is her role, and her death.

It symbolizes how Stew misses his daughter and how he would like to be close to her. Another symbol in this story is the "tiny, smiling daddy" which Stew does not agree with. This element represents the inner parent meaning that it is Kitty's own judgment that helped her get through difficult times: "I would have acknowledged my own needs and created the possibility to connect with what therapists call ‘the good parent' in myself."(Gaitskill, 295) This tiny, smiling daddy stands for everything that Stew is not: a supportive, accepting and truly loving parent with who Kitty can have intimacy. Then, there is the relationship Stew had with his own father which can be viewed as a symbol that reflects on the relationship between Stew and Kitty. Stew admired his father, yet he rejected him: "Its almost godlike stillness and expressionless filled him with admiration and reassurance, until one day, his father slowly looked up from his cereal, met his eyes and said, ‘Stop staring at me you little shit.'"(Gaitskill, 298) Kitty herself experienced similar from Stew himself: "And if you ever try to come back here I'm going to spit

He has spent the last five years of his life in constant regression. He has been always going back to the days where Daisy though he was wealthy and perfect. Those five years became a desire of repeating the past. “I am going to fix everything just the way it was before

Many people have certain symbols in their life that bring them comfort and represent who they are as a person. In Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train, symbols function to convey Molly and Vivian’s desire to maintain their connections to their pasts, their search for self-identity, and the trauma and loss they experience. Molly’s turtle tattoo exemplifies Molly’s personal identity and represents much of the loss she has experienced as a child. The loss, trauma, identity and longing to stay connected to her loved ones that Vivian has and experiences is symbolized by her Claddagh necklace. The charm necklace that Molly wears signifies the connection to her late father, her own character, and the loss she has experienced.

The final theme of memory is shown as Granny weaves in and out of reality and memories of her past. She seems to find strength from being left at the alter and then finds comfort in the memories of her late husband, John, and her children. The memories of the other man make her a bit uneasy with thoughts that her children would find the letters in the attic. There is one moment that she actually wants to tell her daughter to find George and “be sure and tell him I forgot him.”

The last symbols are the gifts from Boo Radley. The gifts are a show of affection from Boo to Scout and Jem. This falls into the theme because the whole town has rumors about how horrible Boo is. Wild stories such as how Boo looks into people’s windows at night and how he stabbed his father in the legs with scissors. They judge Boo because he does not come out of his house at all, but Boo is really just another human being. He is capable of love and happiness just like everyone else.

The “bread-swan” symbolizes Anoosh’s ability to retain his humanity and find the positive in the prison environment, indicating the redeeming quality of art (69.5). While Marji visits Anoosh in prison, he gifts her “another bread-swan”. In spite of being incarcerated, Anoosh creates a sculpture of a swan from the bread he receives. Evidently, he has not become embittered by jail time but instead has focused his energies on the sculpture. The practice of art is spiritual, transforming suffering into grace. Anoosh adds, “it’s the uncle of the first one”, signifying that the bread is not only a work of art but also a manifestation of his legacy. As Anoosh is Marji’s uncle, he implies that “the uncle” represents himself. Anoosh knows he is to be

The flying eagle is another symbol in this film that has been exclusively embraced. The bird first appears to Molly and her mother at the beginning of the movie. Her grandma points towards the bird and says to Molly, “See that bird? That’s a spirit bird; he will always look after you.” This scene shows the bird importance to the Aboriginal. The bird gave Molly the courage to escape Moore River. While in

Similarly to Gatsby, Blanche Dubois is determined to get back the feeling of love that has been lost post to her husband’s death. In act III scene 3, Blanche Dubois admits to her ‘’many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan – intimacies with strangers was all [she] seemed able to fill [her] empty heart with.’’ (Williams 85). Blanche admitting to her past sexual relations with men demonstrate her desperate attempt to finding the emotional connection that she lost

The heart has always been symbolic. It is represented for love in numerous ways. Love is something the heart is supposed to hold. Scientists believe the brain holds all memories, but patients that have had heart transplants say otherwise.

The second symbol is the snow-on-the-mountain camellia flowers. The camellia is just one of the many examples of how symbolism is displayed in To Kill a Mockingbird. The snow-on-the-mountain camellia is a symbol of beauty and escape of happiness in the midst of the ugliness and sadness of a situation. through out chapter 11 mrs.dubose insultes He and Scout. So one day Jem decided to take scouts batons and destroy Mrs.Dubose camellias "until the ground