Summary Of Maggie Nelson's Bluets

In the story “Blue against White”, the author, Jeannette C. Armstrong, writes about a native girl coming home to her reserve after spending time in the city. The topic of memories is very apparent throughout the story as the main character, Lena, is reminiscing through most of it. Whether we like it or not, life always goes on and sometimes, there are things we don’t really pay attention to until it’s too late. Memories can help to keep the past alive and get us through some pretty tough situations. In the story, Lena thinks about her time in the city and how she got through it with her memories of the place she grew up in. Armstrong represents her idea of memory of the past in her text with the use of the blue door as a symbol, comparing

The most important aspect of The Color Purple is the growth and maturity of each individual. There is a huge transition of many of the characters from the beginning to the end of the novel.  This evolution of the characters is a recurring theme that runs throughout the novel and can be tracked by Celie’s letters.  The women struggle  for freedom in a society where they are inferior to men.  Towards the end of the novel one can sense the slow evolution towards the increasing empowerment of women.

In Julia Alvarez’s poem “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries”, the poet uses poetic devices to convey the speaker’s discovery of a poem that catches her attention so much that she feels a rush of excitement that wants to hold on to as long as she can. She discovers about herself how captivated she can be from a poem and how she would even shoplift to keep the rush. The exciting tone is revealed through the entrancement of the girl.The smooth, calming imagery shows how impacted she was by the poem and how uncertain she was about her situation. The selection of detail shows how the book was unique and how she eventually saw who she was becoming.

In terms of symbolism, the color blue was used more than anything else. It was used to portray the various stages of life Granny Weatherall went through when she was experiencing her flashbacks. It is first introduced when she the days when she ran the household and labeled jars with blue writing – a symbol of youthful days filled with energy. The color blue continues popping back up as she continues reminiscing. It is concluded when blue becomes the color of the light in Granny’s own mind, the light she snuffs out herself. It comes to symbolize the final stage of Granny’s life, when she is easing into death.

There are many values within this print, but only constitute a handful of colors: Blue, brown, black, white, and gray. Blue is the main color within this print, there are many values of the color blue used. The deepest part of the waves are the darkest blue, while the parts of the waves closest to the surface are lightest blue or white. The sky has a gradient, which is going from the lightest color to the darkest color or vice versa; the sky is creating a gradient, from the bottom up, of black to a very light gray, then to a white-yellow. The colors chosen by Hokusai can also interpret feelings and emotions. The habitual feeling when seeing the color blue is sadness. Sadness and despair would be fitting emotions for this work, due to the giant wave about to crash upon the men in their boats. Blue can also emit a feeling of elegance. The composition of the print and how the lines of the wave flow can be considered a form of elegance.

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

For centuries, the color blue has been associated with sadness. By the mid- nineteenth century the expression “the blues,” was commonly known in this way. Throughout history, the blues was a regular feeling that African Americans experienced. The Blues arose out of slavery. Through slavery, they were confronted with racism, violence, and poverty.

Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple begins with a young girl experiencing hardships of rape and incest, and continues to narrate the life of this girl as she becomes a woman capable of love and overcoming her long lived need of dependence. The person that catalyzes her transformation is Shug Avery, a provocative singer. Throughout the novel are little splashes of color that give a deeper meaning and further illustrate exactly what effects Shug Avery has on Celie. Shug Avery facilitated Celie’s change from submissive to independent as evidenced by the color symbolism throughout the novel.

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

Life is a rollercoaster filled with ups and downs. Left turns, right turns, and sometimes completely upside down loop de loops. The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a story about a colored woman named Celie who writes letters to God while living through extreme oppression and abuse. Celie eventually overcomes her oppressors by finding her purpose in life through friendship, love, hope, and change in faith. Discovering hope, love, and faith leads to a fulfilling life through difficult times.

In the blues song “ Trouble in Mind” the person who is singing this song was feeling pretty awful and sad at that moment. “ Trouble in mind, I’m blue”, the word blue in this sentence could mean a lot of things, but according to the whole passage and according to the time the blues were popular, the negros used the color “blue” to describe a feeling, a feeling of sadness or unwell and/or depression. “ But I won’t be blue always” he has some hopes that someday he’ll be happy again. “ For the sun will shine in my backdoor someday” this person is optimistic that this dark cloud, eventually has to go away. “ Trouble in mind, that’s true, I have almost lost my mind; Life ain’t worth livin’, feel like I could die,” the way he’s describing this, seems

In the same way, Colors and I Hate You I Love You have a similar meaning in heartbreaks. “Everything is blue. His pills, his hands, his jeans. And now I'm covered in the colors.

<br>In the preface to ‘the Colour Purple' Walker identifies her religious development as the inspiration for her novel and labels religion and spirituality as the principle themes in the book. There are a number of principle characters who complete this journey however in many instances the religious element of the novel is overshadowed by other prominent themes such as personal development, female relationships and racial issues. These must be taken into consideration when assessing Walker's success in delivering her

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bluest Eye opens with a Dick and Jane paragraph, a white American Myth far removed from the realities illustrated in the novel. Thereafter, the black narrator Claudia MacTeer relates much of the story, and the reminder, which concerns events that Claudia could not have witnessed, is narrated mostly by an unidentified voice. Claudia’s narrative reveals the guilt that for a long time plagued her and her sister in connection with another girl’s miscarriage. The girl, Pecola Breedlove, was pregnant with her own father’s child