Symbolism In Eventide 3

“Fine then! But I am better than you in EVERY WAY!” You shout at your former friend, the anger welling up inside of you. “ Don’t even try to act like you could ever be better than me. You never could. So you can stop trying.” As soon as you spit those words out, you finally realize what you’re getting into. “You ARROGANT beast!” Your opponent shouts at you, not hesitantly at all, like the insult was a bitter taste he had to get out of his mouth. Before you know it, your actions are fueled by the burning passion of rage. About five minutes later, you are still punching the air as you are pulled of him, still trying to swing at his head, trying to hit him just once, or maybe even as many times as he hit you. You think about the fight. You don’t want to admit it, but you WERE an arrogant beast, like he said. And look where it got you. Bruised, bloody, and beaten up. Arrogance can lead to violence, and the story, “The Fight”, by Adam Bagdasarian, can very clearly reflect this theme. In the beginning of the story, Adam was cocky and arrogant. All he thought about was how great and tough he was. In the middle of the story, another middle schooler, Mike, challenged him to a fight, and Adam was petrified. At the end of the story, Adam lost the fight and was not as cocky and pride-filled.

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.

Esperanza Ortega of El Rancho de las Rosas is a young Hispanic girl that must overcome strenuous obstacles in order to help her family. The novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan has many symbols that contribute to the theme, but one of the major motifs present is the process of crocheting the quilt. This symbol lasts throughout the entire book, but the message only gets stronger for this symbol goes hand in hand with the storyline.

Opportunity’s life shattered as soon as the first gunshot went off. All because of the other student’s actions that built up, until Opportunity couldn’t stand the pressure anymore.

Andrei Tarkovsky said, “A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are”. In Fahrenheit 451’s society, the reading of books is illegal and punishable by death. The protagonist Guy Montag stands against the burning of the books and attempts to be happy with his life, even though he is a fireman. Ray Bradbury, uses many literary devices in his story, but the most important device is symbolism. In Fahrenheit 451, a handful of symbols advance the plot by giving the novel a deeper meaning that what appears on the surface. Each symbol included in the Fahrenheit 451 is a piece of Guy Montag’s life that is helping his journey.

Within Shaun Tan’s picture books ‘The Red Tree’ and ‘The Lost Thing’, surrealism is utilised to deliver the themes of hope and rejection. Visual techniques and extended metaphors aid in the transmission of these themes. Symbolism, colour, positioning, drawing styles, and cultural referencing are techniques used to convey the messages. Tan utilises these techniques to help the reader realise, and interpret, for themselves the overarching messages within in the picture books.

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

Sometimes at a young immature age teenagers make many mistakes. Some mistakes are just little ones that can be forgotten about or fixed, but then some teenagers makes mistakes that will impact their whole life as they are starting to grow up and starting to turn into mature adults. For example, Bobby got Nia pregnant at age 16 in the book The First Part Last by Angela Johnson. " Nia was waiting...for me with a red balloon. Just sittin' there with a balloon, looking all lost. I'll never forget that look and how her voice shook when she said, Bobby, I've got something to tell you. Then she handed me the balloon." That balloon symbolized that she was having a baby, later on the basketball rolls out of the room, leading to a ghost boy looking in the mirror not knowing who he is.

Orson Scott Card weaves an intricate tale of a boy who is born to save the Earth in the novel, Ender’s Game. Ender Wiggin is born a Third in a world where only two children are allowed per family. Ender’s older brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, were not what the government needed to save the world, so Ender was born in hopes that he would be somewhere in the middle of their extremes. (Cherry). Peter is too violent, whereas Valentine has too much empathy. Ender is the right combination for the Battle School’s needs. Although both Ender and Peter have power, only Ender has respect; both boys are instinctive killers, but Peter relishes the act while Ender regrets the act after he

In the book, The Other Side, there is a girl, Clover, who lives in a yellow house. On the other side of the fence, there is another girl, Annie Paul, that comes and sits on the fence. The only difference between the two is, Clover is black; Annie Paul is white. In, The Other Side, the tone is everybody is created equal. The symbolism is the fence; the audience is children.

The Host is a novel written by Stephanie Myer that uses symbolism, theme, and character foils to capture the reader’s attention. This book is about our planet Earth being taken by aliens called souls. They are planted into the human brain and they control our bodies like parasites. The remaining humans stay hidden from the invaders and try to stay alive. By using these three literary devices, Stephanie Myers makes the reader ask questions about themselves and shows that right and wrong is gray rather than black and white.

Justin Ysunza Mrs. Hawkins English 101 2/21/2016 Although film-watchers might assume Night of the Living Dead is merely a tasteless, blood and gore horror film filled with zombies, its intent is much deeper than inciting fear. This film’s symbolism and its characters are placed in the context of the Vietnam War and 1960s American society dealing with racism and violence during The Civil Rights Movement. The symbols in Night of the Living Dead remind viewers of the Vietnam War and the film uses these symbols to condemn that conflict. Night of the Living Dead was filmed in black and white, which bear a resemblance to the Vietnam War footage that most Americans would watch on the news as they settled in for the evening.

Throughout the film Stranger than Fiction, detailed imagery and symbolism are seen that gives something small a deeper meaning. It is used to relate to things together, foreshadow something that is coming, remind us of a previous occurrence in the movie, or give detail to a character. In various parts of the movie, we see a green apple. First in Harold’s mouth as he goes to work, again when Eiffel decides how she’s going to kill Harold, and the last time when Harold walk to work before he is hit by the bus. The apple is a reference to the painting The Son of Man by Rene Magritte. Another example of symbolism given in the film is the young boy seen riding his bike. The boy is seen in each of Karen Eiffel’s daydream in which she tries to come

This is something special about this film. So far in the course, we were given text where we could create our own visuals and in the case of The Arrival, visual in which we could create text. Given both elements, this film is striking for several reasons. I want to focus on the symbolism, faith (as a theme), and the breathtaking cinematography.

I used a canvas to draw my work inspired by Incarnation. To begin with, the black on the sides and the bottom symbolizes that people who do not go through the narrow path, with go to hell and face eternal death. The yellow stairs in the middle symbolizes the narrow path that leads us to the gate of heaven where Jesus is. The gate of heaven and the narrow path is drawn inside Jesus’s robes because through Jesus, we can walk on the right path, with Jesus, and enter heaven on the day of Judgement. I used watercolor paint to draw Jesus, and I also used the sparkly marker to decorate the door of gate of heaven. I created a picture of hell (black) at the bottom where Jesus does not exist and a stairway that leads to the Gate of heaven through Jesus.