Symbolism In The Pale Man

The characters of the novel are fit to the theme of man’s intuitive evilness, as the boys are under the age of 14. When they continue to enjoy torturing others, they reveal their enjoyment of being savages. They do not desire any order or law of directing force in their state of savagery.

The short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor, is bombarded with symbolism. In short stories symbolism is the literary element that helps the reader depict the picture and actions in their own minds. Whether it be from characters’ names or the designs on the characters’ shirts, every detail in this story has a purpose.

The film, Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón, holds a mirror up to our faces and makes us look. Humans kill, torture, and destroy. Yet we create, give, and love. This motion picture explores the themes of hope, faith and redemption with astounding technical and artistic prowess that puts the audience into the thick of it. It is infused with authentic acting, celestial music, intense visual effects and rich symbolic script writing Children of Men is much more than a dystopian fantasy flick. It is an innovative masterpiece!

In the beginning of the passage the author describes the person talking to Neville. "The man's throat moving like clammy turkey skin." The author uses tactile imagery to give us a vivid representation of the man talking and his appearance. Richard uses clammy turkey skin to show that it's wet and really weird looking. "Red splotched cheeks." Visual imagery is used to to give the reader a mental image of the cheeks and how they look. "Fingers like skeleton fingers." Similie is used to compare the fingers of this person to skeleton fingers skinny to where it almost seems to be just bone.

Toba Beta, author of Master of Stupidity, quotes, “An accusing heart couldn't see her own sins.” This is true for the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, who is quick to point out the sins of others but only recognizes her own sins at the end of a gun barrel. This points out a main theme of the story, that some people are quicker to show others lies and sins than their own, and how sometimes the most judgemental of people are also the most sinnful. Grandma and Red are the best example of characters that judge others, yet they seem to sin more than the others, with a prime example being Red beating his wife and grandma attempting to save only herself while her family is getting shot in the woods. O’Connery shows through symbolism, the concept of sin and the characters sins, and through grandma’s final acceptance of her sin, that “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is truly about religious acceptance and repentance, and how it is never too late to repent, even in your final moments.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel imagery was used to help convey the tone of the Holocaust to everyone which helps the reader understand the extent of the terrible tragedy known as the Holocaust. Elie had shared his story so his voice could be heard, and to alert the world the drastic side effects hate can cause. The tone throughout the story changes, as Ellie was morphed into a different person due the non stop hatred. The reader can pick up on the tone changes due to Elie’s use of words that depict a vivid mental image.

In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” Dave finds himself throughout the course of the story. Throughout the story, Dave is constantly seeking the pleasure of obtaining and then eventually shooting a gun in order to be a man and find himself. However, Dave does not expect the consequences that are to follow the pursuit of pleasure. The moral of the story pertains to the role pleasure and its consequences have in development and finding oneself. The story narrates a common, but little talked about problem, that runs rampant in today’s society. In the story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” Richard Wright illustrates Dave’s development, or lack thereof, through the symbols of the gun, the train, and the mule.

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

One day he finds the courage to reveal himself to the blind old man, but in mid-conversation, the son returns home and “struck him violently with a stick” (115). The monster runs out of the home filled with pain and anguish.

James E. Faust once said, “In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.” In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Flannery O’Connor discussed the difference between good and evil within the characters of the short story. The Misfit has his henchmen kill the family, and the grandmother ultimately only thinks of herself and not the rest of her family. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Flannery O'Connor shows the readers multiple meaning of symbolism throughout the characters relations to faith, places, and outlook on their surroundings.

A powerful and provocative graphic novel, Maus, generates a Jewish individual’s life of grotesque and horror. With its ability of perception and interpretation, it tackles the main points of the ominous Holocaust and delivers a spooky aura to the absorbed audience. In comparison to Schindler’s List, the graphic novel shines brightly than the pale movie due to its realism and humor that is constantly present throughout the storyline. The novel has the ability to connect to the audience; thus, it gives an in-depth look and overall comprehension of the massacre that Spiegelman is trying to communicate. The graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, brings an honest account of the Holocaust to a wide audience because of its historical truth and intriguing viewpoints and characters that shows the effect and process of the genocide.

When writing fiction, there are certain rules that authors need to follow in order to create good fiction. Good fiction would be one that follows these 3 rules: character’s behavior is consistent, character’s words and actions spring from motivation, and characters are plausible or lifelike. For a character to be lifelike or plausible it means that the character in the story is presented as someone who you could meet in the real world. In good fiction, the reader will be able to immerse themselves into the book so well that the reader will forget that they are even reading a story. An example of good fiction would be “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright. Wright’s main character Dave possesses the three necessities that would

The “Gypsies” were said , by the Nazi’s, to have evil powers and would only bring sorrow and misfortune to the villagers. The fear and suspicion quickly turned into hostility. The villagers poked, prodded, kicked, whipped and tortured the boy for days while other watched and laughed “My body burned from the slashes of the whip...”(Kosinski 17). As time passed, a plague spread throughout the village, they believed that the boy must have brought the misfortune to them. They believed that if they rid themselves of the “Gypsy boy”, they would be free of the misfortune. Enraged, the villagers threw the boy into the river in hopes of his death by drowning. The actions of the villagers were compelled by their prejudice against the boys’ perceived ethnic origins. The alienation and loneliness the boy feels after being separated from his parents and the only other person that has taken care of him is gone, now he is all alone. The boy learns that he will have to learn to cope with the alienation and loneliness in order to survive this world. The unknown causes people to be quick to judge. The fear and hate of the unknown causes people to commit horrible acts, which only gets easier when they are sanctioned by state authority.

     In Kate Chopin’s short story, “Desiree’s Baby”, she demonstrates how racism played a major part in people’s lives in the 1800’s. Kate Chopin is extremely successful in getting her readers to feel disturbed by the events in the story. Through words and images, the reader feels touched by the story, either by relating to it at some points or when confronted with things we frequently decide to ignore in the world: the evil some human beings are capable of possessing.

Francois Truffaut continued on to say that Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog, made in 1955, was the “greatest film ever made”. The 30-minute film based on the horrors of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps after World War II combines Resnais’ own cinematography with original images and footage of the captives in their unfathomable state. The film is lead with a somber narrative that not only accompanies the sobering images being shown but both compliments them and puts them into perspective. Carl R. Plantigna’s chapter from his book ‘Rhetoric and Representation in