Symbolism In Tuco's Death

In the story, gray is brought up many times. War, like the color gray, is dull and depressing. War distorts humanity, making everything civil seem to vanish. Bierce uses the color gray to convey this message. Bierce writes, “-a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate and asked for a drink of water. Mrs. Fahrquhar was only too happy to serve him with her own white hands” (Bierce 2). This man, appears to be a confederate, hence the gray-clad uniform he is wearing. But this man is actually a Federal scout. The color gray made him seem trustworthy and on the same side of the war as Fahrquhar. This scout knows Fahrquhar is a southern plantation owner and decides to try convincing him to commit a crime. The crime of burning down a Union bridge. The scout does this so Federal soldiers could catch Fahrquhar and hang him. A scout wearing a gray uniform in hope of hanging a regular southern man is an act of complete inhumanity. This scout would not have done this if war was not present. This example just shows war brings out the monster in people. The color gray allows this scout to accomplish

This quote also demonstrates the dramatic irony of the story as it is the grandmother's own doing that leads to the death of her and her family. Furthermore, O'Connor uses the grandmothers hat as another symbol of her self-indulgence. This is shown when she is described as wearing a "purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet" when she enters the car, so that in case of an accident people would know that she is a lady. Ultiamtely this proves her selfishness because rather than thinking about her family, she is only worried about the way she is percieved by anyone who sees her dead. O'Connor includes this in the story to foreshadow that something bad may happen to the family since the grandmother is already thinking about death.

“Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and golden colored tie hurried in” Gatsby shows up in white suit when he’s about to meet Daisy after 5 years. The color white is associated with purity and cleanliness. White also represents a successful beginning. Fitzgerald use the color gold to represent wealth throughout the novel The Great Gatsby.

In addition, the juxtaposition of colours in Tilly’s clothes compared to the townspeople symbolise Tilly’s status as a lowly ‘outsider’, someone seen as guilty of a ruthless murder. The consistently dreary colour palette of the schoolteacher’s clothing despite the designer masterpieces surrounding her allure to her fabricated witness report, symbolising her selfish desire to remain unexposed in fear of Tilly’s mission for revenge.

Additionally, the “pink ribbons of her cap” represent youth and innocence and these ribbons are to represent the Puritan society as a whole. Even though the ribbons appear to be holy, they fall to evil and show the truth of the Puritans. In the middle of his journey, he hears

Another symbol that we see in this story “Young Goodman Brown” is the pink ribbons that faith uses in her cap. “He looked back and saw the head of faith still peeping after him with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons” (Hawthorne 137).This seems to symbolize the ribbons as having a sort of positive emotion in this case towards the presence of Goodman Brown. In this story there were quite a few symbols that symbolized important events or ideas through the entire

During the last few chapters of The Last of the Mohicans, Cora is killed by a Huron, Uncas is killed by Magua and Magua is killed by Hawkeye. The next morning, a burial takes place for Uncas and Cora. The Delawares mourn their death and young Delaware girls chant a song of reverence to the lives of Cora and Uncas. Throughout the story you will see a love triangle between Magua, Cora and Uncas. However, in the end all three die and there is a joint burial to symbolize their families accepting their race difference and resolves their feelings for each other by allowing them to be together forever.

There is a debate over the ethics of stem cell research and many people on opposing sides of the issue are not aware of all aspects. In order to intelligently debate the legal and ethical issues regarding stem cell research, one must understand what stem cells are, the applications currently available, and the impact of the research. It is also important to understand the distinction between adult and embryonic stem cells before exploring their uses and impacts

--is a United States Supreme Court case. Where the Court rejected a challenge by the state of South Carolina. To the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

“The Minister’s Black Veil” seems like a moral allegory. Not just the veil but the act of wearing it is important. The veil also alienates the parson from people.

Therefore, one can be a good person by doing good which helps everyone overall, as done by the majority of the main cast within the novel, which ultimately results in things starting to be relived as the novel

After Somesh is killed in a robbery, Sumita is dressed in a borrowed “White (sari). Widow’s color, color of endings” (271) and attending the bangle-breaking ceremony. Whereas, white is the color used in the west for brides and weddings signifying purity, white is the color of mourning and death in the east. The green or red bangle, which in the Hindu religion symbolizes safety and a happy, prosperous and long married life, is required to be worn by married women. As part of the mourning ceremony, the glass bangles are smashed, “so that the glass bangles I was wearing shattered and multicolored shards flew out in every direction (271).

______. His red hunting hat is symbolic of many things. He wears it during important times such as writing the composition about Allie’s baseball glove, yet he seems to be embarrassed to wear it in public. “I took my old hunting hat out… and put it on. I knew I wouldn’t meet anybody that knew me” (122). Even though he lacks confidence to wear it frequently, it becomes a part of how he sees himself. He acknowledges that it’s “corny” but he personally likes how it looks; it is a symbol of his uniqueness and desire to be different. The red color of the hat is also noteworthy, the same as Allie and Phoebe’s hair. He may associate ‘red’ with purity and innocence those characters represent and wears it as a connection to them.

In some countries white signifies purity and cleanliness. In others it is the color of royalty or deities. Sumita’s husband owns a 7-11 store in California. He is constantly having to work the night shift to try to earn extra money so that they can move out on their own. One night he is held at gun point and shot to death. To mourn his death Sumita wears a white sari.

Unlike Juan and Tom, Pablo both denies and accepts his circumstances. His answer to absurdity is to detach himself, to become clinical in his observations. Pablo wants to create meaning at his death; he “didn’t want to die like an animal” (Sartre). Part of that process is the shedding of his past, burying what life he had to give up life in the future. As he looks at his whole life, he thinks “It was worth nothing, because it was finished… death had disenchanted everything” (Sartre). He thinks about Concha, his lover, and in burying his past he has no more desire to see her. He says if someone had come to tell him he could go home, “It would have left me cold” (Sartre). In these things he’s created meaning for his life. He wants to die clean;