Symbolism InGood People, By David Foster Wallace

“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.

In a true-story about more suffering and terror one could ever even attempt to imagine, one man tells his story about learning that just because you’re breathing doesn’t mean you’re living. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism to reveal that physical death is not the only way to die.

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 “Good People” by David Foster Wallace, we are introduced to two characters, Lane and Sheri, who met in campus ministries during junior college and who are faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Although they are both Christian and are essentially labeled as anti-abortion activists, they are still faced with such a rigid decision. However, just because Lane does not truly love Sheri and just because they go back and forth between making a final decision on whether or not they want to have an abortion, does not mean they are not good people. Lane is a good person because even though he does not have a love for Sheri anymore, he still genuinely cares about her; his love for her exists but in a different way. Though we do not know a great deal

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.

The choice to exclude more than is revealed throughout David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” provides ample room for interpretation. Specifically, the complete lack of Sheri’s perspective brings a depth of understanding to Lane’s mind: “This down-to-earth girl that

David Foster Wallace’s “Good People,” is a very touching, powerful story about a young, unwed, Christian couple facing an extremely difficult decision and the moral and religious implications that may result. As the story begins, we are allowed into the head of Lane Dean, a college student, as he sits on a park bench with his girlfriend, Sheri. Lane and Sheri find themselves faced with an unplanned pregnancy, which causes them to battle with several moral and religious dilemmas. Both of them are devout Christians who have built their moral beliefs upon God and their religious upbringing. Although torn Sheri schedules an abortion, which weighs on Lane deeply. Lane, frozen in fear and not having the courage to freely talk to Sheri about

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of ‘A lesson Before Dying’ is an effective storyteller as he uses vast amounts of stylistic elements to demonstrate his points on characters, racism and stereotypes. Gaines uses elements like biblical allusions to draw subtle references about main characters, such as Grant, Jefferson and even Miss Emma. Gaines uses symbolism to represent key points in the novel like Jefferson's death, the community’s willingness to contribute and the respect that characters have for one another. Finally Gaines uses archetypes like ‘hero’ and ‘the underdog’ for characters Grant and Jefferson to give the reader a perspective of what the characters may have to go through with such a label. Using stylistic elements like biblical allusions,

First, the protagonist in the story, Lane Dean finds out that his college girlfriend is pregnant. The author characterizes Lane as a very religious person who has strong values. When he finds out about his girlfriends pregnancy he questions his own faith. “He had liked just being with her and talking to her. She was serious in her faith and values in a way that lane had liked and now, sitting here wither her on the table, found himself afraid of. This was an awful thing. He was starting to believe that he might not be serious in his faith” (Wallace 151). Lane dean who is nineteen believes that it is a sin to have

When reading Stephen King’s “The Body” there are many accounts of symbolism that happen throughout the novella, some being more apparent than others. Some of the main and more important examples of symbolism would be Vern’s lost penny jar, Mr. Lachance’s garden, and finally the deer that Gordie sees while near the train tracks. These specific items have very meaningful symbolism attached to them that is vital to the story.

I drew Winston, hand in hand with Julia, walking down a hallway. The hallway intentionally lacks colour and is drawn to appear white and spotless as described in the quote, “The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream paper walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean”. I added a thought bubble above Winston to signify him remembering only contaminated, grimy hallways, “Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies”. The endlessness of the hallway, and the minuscule size of Winston and Julia signify the fear in them in this part of the chapter. What they were facing was unknown and scary, and they couldn’t be sure how it would end, they must

Comparing to “Good People” this one is easier for me to read. I think it is because of the whole story focuses on the dialogues between the couple. Two young people love and care about each other. Although there is conflict between them, but they care about each other’s feeling. The girl does not want to get the abortion, but the guy thinks after that everything will back to normal. At the end of the story, they did not come up with a conclusion. This is because they want each other to be happy. Although the story is fairly easy to understand, I did not realized that they ware talking about whether to get the abortion until we discussed that in

She further writes and acknowledges that there are many reason in which abortion may be considered morally wrong, but she also notes that there are true causes for a legal and moral abortion. She also writes that some women choose to go on with the pregnancy even when it may cause her more harm. The “Good Samaritan” term is used as a protagonist by anti-abortionists who uses this term a moral compass.

Khaled Hosseini writes the novel, The Kite Runner to make readers think of how his use of symbolism and other