Polar Express Psychology

The color suggests the "unknown" from which a human being comes into the world. Blue is used in the world today to symbolize different things in this world

At the start of the film Joel awakes and has no memory of clementine he ditches work and impulsivly catchs a train out to Montauk on the train he meets Clementine for an unknown second time ,In this scene clementines hair is bright blue the colour blue being symbolic of new beginings this scene is ironic once the viewer is aware of the backstory and events that have taken place.

The Blue represents, hope peace, and selflessness. The Blue was first introduced to Kira when she had learned the art of weaving. She could feel the emotions of the colors. The Blue adds a significant amount of meaning to the story and plot. The Blue is to help and save the community from the mere corruption. ‘“Gather fresh leaves from first year’s growth of woad. And soft rainwater; that makes the blue...I have nought. Others do, but they be far away’” (Lowry 54). She is in love with the color blue and all the innocence it represent and brings that she does anything to see it. Kira also became interested in The Blue because of The

The colors blue and green help create what a character is feeling. This is proven when George Beckwith is telling John Wayne about his change of heart toward the war. The shot shows Beckwith with a blue sky and

The color blue in The Great Gatsby has some of the deepest meanings. From symbolizing happiness and joy to sadness and loneliness. When blue comes to the mind some people think happiness, others think the reciprocal of that. Blue can be described as a neutral color, meaning that it has various meanings. The color blue does not have many symbols in the book, but when it does they are pretty big ones.

Colours signify shift in moods, feelings and beliefs. White denotes purity, humility and marriage. Blue conveys trust, tranquillity and harmony. Red represents all things intense and passionate. It is no surprise then as to why Hughes titled one of his works after this symbolism.

The way the author used light and dark as a way to show Sonny's troubled life vs his passion for jazz. The symbol is also used as the tiitle. Its called Sonny's Blues, but Sonny is into Jazz. The blues is a symbol of pain that one goes through in life which can be also be viewed as

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colors to symbolize emotion throughout the novel. An example would be when Nick was observing Gatsby’s house the day of the party, “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne, and the stars.” (39 Fitzgerald) The gardens represent Gatsby himself. Like his gardens Gatsby puts in a lot of effort into himself to look good, he makes it known that he has a ridiculously lavish lifestyle.Therefore how he feels is how the house is going to appear, in this case the gardens appear blue because he hasn’t met his long lost lover, Daisy, yet and that causes him to be really sad and depressed. The blue also represents how lonely he feels because he doesn’t have many friends and his efforts to try and reach/ meet Daisy again haven’t given him results. Color was also used to show emotion when Gatsby and NIck returned to West Egg after going to town with Daisy, Jordan, and Tom, “the shadow of the tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.” (152 Fitzgerald) In this quote, the blue represents how hurt and confused Gatsby feels. He had always thought that Daisy never loved anyone

His dramatic and peaceful slumber show Henry’s internal struggle to acclimate to civilian life. This leads to the emanate death of the Golden Son. The symbolism attributed to colors and its connection to actions or events is, for the most part, straightforward, black and white. Positive means a happy face.

Zimmerman asserts that blue represents the beginning of life and the spiritually associated with it; purple, the royalty of Prospero…; green, youth and vitality…; orange, a transition to adulthood with negative connotations of lust and

In the beginning of Ordinary People, Conrad has come up with a thesis of blue symbolizes anxiety. Throughout the novel,

Bluets reads much like the ocean would. Deep and moving, creating a rhythm, a rocking that mimics the tides washing against the sand. The ebb and flow of her depression, of her understanding of the heartbreak and finally, her acceptance.

Sonny’s Blue started the story by being in a subway and on the way to work. He gets three-point flashback, which become important in the story. Later we know the narrator is Sonny’s older brother, he talks about their background of growing up in Harlem. Sonny, who used to be the good kid at young age, later turned out to be a heroin addiction. The exposition is when he saw an article about Sonny being in jail, after being caught in a heroin bust. The narrator who is now a teacher in Harlem, ends up thinking about Sonny and the hardship all his students will encounter. The inciting incident was when he encountered Sonny old friend and how he cannot help Sonny anymore. Rising action is when narrator writes a letter to Sonny after his daughter passed away.

Blue is set during 1944 right at the end of World War two and right at the started of the polio epidemic that was sweeping across the western Piedmont of North Carolina. The main character, Ann Fay lived in Hickory with her mother, father,

In literature, authors use a certain image or collection of images in order to produce a particular effect, eliciting a response from the reader’s senses. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” utilizes the imagery of the train station in order to produce the effect of transition between the characters, both in terms of physical location and emotional mindset. Much like Hemingway, James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” takes a similar approach, using Sonny’s passion for music to expose his deepest insecurities. Though their approaches are different, both authors use imagery to create a pathway to the character’s internal thoughts.