Symbolism And Elements Of Literary Text Hidden Meanings

Everyone needs hope in their lives for the good times and the bad. Hope is an essential part of human life, which is sometimes symbolized into objects. Legend by Marie Lu is a dystopian story about Day, a slum sector teen criminal, and June, a wealthy military prodigy. Marie Lu uses Day’s pendant to symbolize the hope and freedom Day and June yearn for.

The descriptive imagery that is perpetually represented throughout the poem allows the reader to enter Hayes’s mind. In “Wind in a Box” Hayes explains how people are trapped in a box and must break free. This box that we are incarcerated in restricts us from becoming as enlightened as possible. Furthermore, wind can be light or heavy, but as free and natural as possible. Wind cannot be controlled but it’s a controlled element itself which represents the freedom that people should possess. People are born in this box, which represents everything that the reader listens to that controls them. For example, listening to the media and accepting it without question could throw people deeper into the box that is meant to contain them. To break free, one must research their information and gain an independent mind and with this one will gain individuality. Furthermore, Hayes speaks of completely loving a women in his poem. This reflects back on being free of one’s containment. By having inner freedom only then can one fully love and appreciate another person. Hayes explains this in his story and continues to represent his passionate love for this woman. At last, the main objective that the reader should learn is that they must acquire individuality and independence to escape from the box that places restrictions on their

There’s a lot of literary techniques used in “How to read literature like a professor”. One of the techniques is symbolism. In chapter 12 it talks about someone walking on a road and they encounter two roads that diverge into the woods. There’s a road that everyone uses and then there’s one that almost no one uses and he decides to take that road for some reason. “Two roads diverged into a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”. To me this symbolizes freedom and decision making. Everyone has to make decisions in their lives ranging from what to eat during lunch to life changing decisions

“Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jerseys are they reading as they trot out to the field?” (Bradbury 17)

William Golding, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature, argues in his 1954 book Lord of the Flies that humans are evil in nature. He uses multiple symbols to define what savagery really is and how it can affect even the youngest of society. Some symbols, such as painted faces or a pig's head on a stick are used as shocking narrative tools but are necessary in order to portray these children as ruthless monsters. Golding’s use of painted faces does symbolize that when there is anonymity, humans will commit atrocious acts, especially if they are in a position of power.

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.

In William Golding’s “Lord Of The Flies” Novel, symbolism is a very important element of the book, Many symbols show how the boys on the island are slowly becoming savage and losing their civility.

Imagine a society where books are banned, technology has taken over and is on the verge of a world war. This is what you encounter when reading the totalitarian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury from the perspective of the protagonist Guy Montag, a fireman with the task of burning every still existing book there is. Throughout the course of the novel, he begins questioning his current life-situation and evolves from a workaholic to a rule-breaking rebel in a matter of days. Considering the occupation of the protagonist, fire coincidentally has a significant role in this story, however, the symbolism changes coherently with Montag himself. The meaning of fire and burning provides dimension and depth and thus making it a food for thought type

What comes to your mind when you think of a tree? Trees appear a lot in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. They are one of the most frequent symbols in the novel. Symbolism is giving certain symbols deeper meanings to portray something in the text. In Speak, Melinda’s paintings of trees are symbols, as well as the tree in her front yard. Anderson uses trees to show Melinda’s different phases and her growth.

In the novel How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster gives evidence of every season having a symbolic meaning in different pieces of literature. In most cases, the seasons can represent certain times in a person’s life, such as death or the renewal of life. Foster states that the seasons may also represent times of decline, dormancy, awakening, and even times of passion. Foster then gives examples of how the seasons are interpreted in other pieces of literature, such as Shakespeare. This makes the reader question if the seasons are symbolic in other pieces of literature and if the author used a specific season on purpose to help portray the meaning of the story they are trying to tell.

In the the novel Fahrenheit 451, multiple different abstract and concrete ideas are represented. Those ideas include the use of the outsiders to represent the old society, the use of the mechanical hound to represent the resistance to change, and the usage of the atomic bomb to symbolize a new reality. However, this specific examples of representation within the novel are highlighted due to the fact that they together compose an allegory.

In the short story “The Possibility Of Evil” by Shirley Jackson the author uses several symbols to tell a story one of the symbols are Miss Strangeworth’s roses because it symbolizes her family and her life. She doesn’t give any of her beautiful roses away because they are so special to her. Her family has taken care of them for one hundred years. Another Symbol is the street’s name which is named “The Pleasant Street” it symbolizes the way she wants people in the town to be. She wants people to not be evil according to her. Another important symbol are her letters that symbolizes her duty to inform people about the things that are going on in a very negative and anonymous way. By using all these symbols, Shirley Jackson achieved to make this

In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster explains how every thing has a symbolic meaning but finding what the symbols stand for is where it becomes tricky. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain presents to his readers many symbols that can be easily seen for their true meaning such as the rain, fog, and fear of drowning. According to Thomas C. Foster, rain symbolizes life; fog symbolizes confusion; and drowning is always one of our deepest fears. However, there are also innumerable accounts of symbols that need to be interpreted with a lot of thought from the reader. One example can be seen in the Mississippi River. The

Foster’s ability to dissect and analyze different novels are demonstrated in each chapter. He describes symbolism and allusion within the most well-known books. Biblical references are incorporated almost everywhere in literature. Foster explains every culture and religion has influenced each novel. “Still, no matter what your religious beliefs, to get the most out of

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”