Symbolism In Game At Twilight

“From the twenties through the eighties, whatever else there hadn’t been in Odessa, there had always been high school football” (Bissinger 35) epitomizes the book in one succinct sentence. However, the book doesn’t blatantly state superficial information about football; it follows the Permian Panthers through an entire season and reveals the emotions of a handful of football players. Throughout various parts of the book, Bissinger beautifully utilizes symbols in order to create a better perception for the readers on the lives of the souls in Odessa. The symbols, include, but are not limited to; the railroad tracks, the Gary Edwards case, and the school spending reveal the various facets of life in Odessa.

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell expertly exploits foreshadowing and vivid imagery to emphasize danger and suspense. Many authors attempt to do this, but only a small few succeed. Everyone who has stayed up past their bedtime reading a book will tell you, they stayed awake because the book they were reading was filled with suspense. It is suspense that separates the great stories from the good stories. And “The Most Dangerous Game” is definately a great one. By using foreshadowing and utilizing his characters five senses, Connell keeps readers at the edge of their seats, eagerly waiting to find out what comes next.

Symbolism: the artistic and poetic use of a phrase, object, or relationship to express a deeper idea. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a retelling of Wiesel’s sacrifices and experiences as a young Jewish boy who had spent many years in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel uses an overwhelming amount of symbolism to express the deeper thoughts and feelings of the Jewish people as they did all they could to survive. Wiesel’s relationship with his father, Juliek’s violin, and the rations of food the Jews are provided with all symbolize the remnants of humanity that still remain in the Jews, who have been stripped of basically everything.

H. G. Bassinger's 1990 novel, "Friday Night Lights", explores the effects of a reigning football team found within a rural and obscure town. Permian High School’s black and white colors resonated among the town of Odessa, Texas. The popularity of Permian football stretched throughout the whole town, cramping its inhabitants into a stadium for the seasonal ritual. Along with the high succession rate of the Permian panthers, came the lone legacy of its gifted players as well as the town itself. Permian football was more than just a sport, it was the symbol of Odessa and the definition of its glory.

The Holocaust was the mass murder of Jews under the control of Hitler during the period 1941-1945. More than 6 million Jews, as well as members of other groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps the biggest camp was Auschwitz. They got tea for their morning meal, for lunch prisoners would be given a litre of soup that was watered down. If they were lucky, they might find a piece of a potato peel. One of the survivors of the holocaust stated “Your bowl was your life, without your bowl you didn’t eat.” (Kitty - Return to Auschwitz, YTV 1979) Hunger caused the Jew inmates to do things they normally wouldn't do.

The author of the book Night is Elie Wiesel and the main character is Eliezer. The title Night points out to the darkness of mind, life and soul experienced by everyone who had suffered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The theme of Night is Eliezer’s difficulty to maintain his faith in God. In the book Night, Eliezer’s faith fades away by seeing the horrible conditions of his surroundings, the painful deaths of many innocent people and by persecution.

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.

The physical and social settings portrayed in Amy Tan’s “The Rules of the Game” enables the story to emerge as more than the birth of a child prodigy. Thus they make the story more profound.

“I have not failed, I have only found [many] ways it does not work.” These words by Thomas E. Edison explain that one might fail one time but might succeed in the future if determined. Struggling to find the respect one believes he deserves is the main theme in “Games at Twilight” by Anita Desai. The story is about a boy named Ravi, who lives in India, it is so hot that they can only play at night, he wants to gain respect, by winning a game of hide and go seek, from his siblings. First, Ravi is motivated to gain respect from his siblings. Concencely Ravi wins the game but does not gain the respect he wants. Therefore, Ravi’s motivation to gain respect causes him to win the game but to lose respect. Desai shows that setting a goal sometimes

Images or ideas that contain symbolic meanings aside from their apparent surface can correctly the definition of symbolism. George Orwell’s novel 1984 holds numerous examples of symbolism that pertain to today and the clever references he puts in that predict the book’s conclusion. Some of these symbols include Winston’s paperweight, a prole woman singing outside of a window, the St. Clement’s Church picture and rhyme, the phrase “the place where there is no darkness”, and many more symbols all contain symbols that either reference a theme of the novel or a specific idea that the novel conveys.

For my project, I chose to paint one of the most iconic scenes and/or symbols represented: a tornado and an older-modelled Chevy Impala. In the horror novel The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman, five teenagers' sanity is put to the test as they are propelled into the harrowing world of criminal activity: more specifically -- gruesome, realistic, and intricately detailed local murder. The central characters all experience a coincidental chain of homicides all within the same (referred to asThe Killing Day). A year later, as they continue to cope on various way, Oleander reels in an insane tornado, completely destroying the town. This event leads to a grand flee for the entire city, leaving a barren area of disaster in its wake. As itself, the

The novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is symbolic of timeless literature and film. Chronicles of a Death Foretold can be related to the following timeless works: Julius Caesar a screenplay by William Shakespeare, Pulp Fiction a film by Quentin Tarantino, and The Bible a religious manifest. Firstly, to understand how the novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold is symbolic of other timeless works, a person must first understand the story of Chronicles of a Death. The novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold is a story of adultery, murder, and deceit.

After reading the poem, “Into the darkness,” I have decided to focus on symbolism, archetypes, and myths when referring to the owl and darkness. After researching I have found out that an owl operates mainly late at night or all night. The author stated that “The great-horned owl calls to me each night from the deep, tree-shadows nearby, and I shape-shift in the darkness, and shed human form, to fly”. When the owl shows up in your life, pay attention to the winds of change. Perhaps the author is about to leave some old habits, a situation no longer serves or perhaps bring something new in your life.

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another" (Maser). Coincidentally, this quote mirrors a theme present throughout Heart of Darkness. In Joseph Conrad's novel, the environment of the story was a reflection of man's conscience. Savagery surrounded characters, and their hearts, in turn, depicted savage desires. In Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, he uses the literary elements of setting, symbolism, and character development to reveal the theme that an environment can affect a man's conscience.

Marlow’s journey becomes a journey of individuation: a salvation realized through bringing the unconscious urges to consciousness – a journey which can be contrasted to that of his diabolic double, Kurtz, who undergoes a psychological disintegration into his savage self and slips into “The horror! The horror!”