Symbolism In Swing Time

A similarity noticed was the main topic of each story. Each express their view and their experience living in America. Both being girls living in an American society. Both talking about their American identity while being a mix of different ethnicities.

First off, both of them take place in the future which sets the series of events for the rest of the story’s. The story’s take place in the early 2050’s and instead of there being all these high tech things for people to use, there is just a TV screen that everybody sits in front of (Bradbury 47). That explains the next similarity which is that everybody sits inside all the time. Mead is really the only person who walks outside at night but in the story it’s ok but in the film he’s not supposed to be outside. Therefore these stories are similar but it’s the differences that make these stories even more

After reading the book, The Other Side, the author uses symbolism, tone, and he wrote it to an audience. The book is based on racism, today we may not know about it, and it still goes on today. Whites and blacks have both been against each other until one very powerful leader stopped racism. The book has lots of symbolism related to racism.

The main reason that these stories are alike, are that they relate to women. Whether you are a daughter, or a wife, changes are you can relate to

People change and grow through their experiences and conflicts. For example, just 2 years ago I was a sixth grader. There was a lot more homework than I ever had in my non-accelerated / magnet elementary school. I had to work harder and for longer hours, but as a result, I was much more mature and knowledgeable. I improved my work habits and increased my concentration. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “First Love”, a 14 year old girl is in love with a high school senior. She does everything she can to try to see him more often. At the end, she thinks she learns the true meaning of love. In Richard Wright’s “The Street”, a boy has to go shopping for food, but he is constantly stopped by a gang who beats him up. At the end, he beats up the gang with a stick his mother gave him because he had to to return home. In both “The Street” by Richard Wright and “First Love” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the characters start out as shy and naive, but end up as aware and wiser as a result of their respective conflicts.

The symbols and imagery used by Kate Chopin's in “The Story of an Hour” give the reader a sense of Mrs. Mallard’s new life appearing before her through her view of an “open window” (para. 4). Louise Mallard experiences what most individuals long for throughout their lives; freedom and happiness. By spending an hour in a “comfortable, roomy armchair” (para.4) in front of an open window, she undergoes a transformation that makes her understand the importance of her freedom. The author's use of Spring time imagery also creates a sense of renewal that captures the author's idea that Mrs. Mallard was set free after the news of her husband's death.

Philip K. Dick’s novel, Time Out of Joint, is set in an artificially created town from the 1950’s in a dystopian 1990’s society. Published in 1959, Dick’s novel was met with criticism from those who feared the Communist threat of a third world war. In making “time out of joint” in his novel, Dick blurs the line between fiction and reality by distorting narrative structure and employing the symbolism of words to satirize 1950’s American society’s willful ignorance and fear of the unknown. As power and moral authority shift, the reader questions the postmodernist novel’s world, instilling a sense of doubt and curiosity.

n the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette realizes that she was basically living and was being raised on her own since her parents weren't always there. In the novel The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author Wes Moore realized that he wanted to change his life when he realized how fast everything was going, such as his life and school. The other Wes Moore wanted to change his life because he was tired of often running in the streets since he realized how the drugs were ruining his life. We often see how they are realizing or regretting the decisions they made which leads to them wanted to change that.

They both are products of their environment because they both show how the town you live in the people you chose to hang with can all change you as an individual. The author Wes Moore was influenced by the people around him and the community which made him into a dealer and user of drugs because his friends were into drugs and getting in trouble the author Wes also saw the money that could be made selling drugs. The other Wes Moore moved a lot and everywhere he went the drug game was big and he could make a living. The other Wes also had a brother that was heavily into the drug game and keep

The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.

The “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story about a woman who struggles with the oppression she experiences at the hands of her husband and her secret desire for independence. Louise Mallard didn’t realize how upset she was in her marriage until she found out about her husband’s death. She grieves for only a short period of time before mentally creating a new life for herself. This new life she envisions help her to see the silver lining in a tragic event. Chopin uses symbolism throughout the story to portray the theme of a quest for identity.

Jane Desmond introduces her article, “Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies,” by describing a dance that readers can picture as the dance of tango in their minds. This helps lead to her connecting dance, or body movement, with cultural studies and social identities. In her article, Desmond focuses on connecting how dance and body movement can be portrayed differently in social identities, such as race, class, gender, nationality, and sexuality.

Everything everywhere is constantly changing. People change, weather changes, plans change, everything changes; you can’t escape change. Two movies that really illustrate the concept of change are Pleasantville and Back to the Future. In both of these movies, the main characters – Marty, David, and Jennifer – are sent back into the times of the 1950s and are faced with a world completely different from their own. In Pleasantville, David and Jennifer get stuck in David’s favourite television show, Pleasantville, as the characters Bud and Mary Sue. Jennifer seems to want to stir things up, creating change throughout Pleasantville, causing things to turn to colour, while David is doing all he can to stop Jennifer from destroying their perfect world. On the other hand, in Back to the Future, Marty gets sent back in time to when his parents were his age. Unfortunately, he runs into his parents, causing his mother to fall for him, supposedly interfering with Marty’s future. All of these main characters have to deal with a lot of change – the key concept these movies have in common. While Pleasantville and Back to the Future both focus on the concept of time and change, both movies illustrate change from different perspectives. These movies also have other similar concepts, such as racism, masculinity, and the idea of the “ideal family”; however, they both differ by discussing other social issues as well.

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.

Another similarity would be the characters in both stories. They are faced with the hard reality as they come to find out they weren't living in