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Symbols In Hollywood, By Bobby Nayyar

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Symbols are filled with emotions and various flashbacks which brings out memories from past events. Even smaller and innocent symbols such as a sycamore tree, can create deep meaningful thoughts, which can affect our present and perhaps future. A symbol can have a great deal of interpretations depending on which personality you possess. Two people can have different expositions based on their previous’ memories and the situations which have created themselves in the present time. Together, people can complement and understand each other which is the case in Bobby Nayyar’s short story ‘’Hollywood’’. Written and published in the anthology London/33 boroughs shots in Volume 1 East’’ in the 2010, Nayyar’s short story can be interpreted as a classical …show more content…

He is ‘’one of the three million unemployed in this fair green land’’ (page 1, line 2-3), and he uses most of his time at the Jobcentre Plus on Mayes Road on every Tuesday. (page 1, line 17). Even though he has a degree, which he gained a year ago, he is still not active on the job market which after his visits create an unpleasant situation for him. However, afterwards, he often goes to an old cinema called Hollywood on Wood Green High Road (page 1, line 5, where he would create a pleasant situation for him, hence the expression ‘’Sugar the pill’’ mention on page 1, line 19. Frequently, the protagonist has the screening for himself, which makes him dream. In the words of Tasem who says ‘’Nothing could touch me in those moments’’ (line 1, page 26), the old Hollywood is safe spot, the place where he can be himself without worrying about being unemployed and the issues concerning his family. The cinema represents his unity, himself as an individual and it is a special place which makes him dream and dive into a secure environment. The place only exists because of the love which Tasem has for it. Other people raise their eyebrows by hearing the name of the cinema, however it represents a place in ‘’broke britain’’, some value for …show more content…

In this part, the two main characters’ bond and it envelopes though a line from a poet which was written by Tasem, as an attempt to ask Sae out again. The line says ‘’Like a Sycamore seed falling through the years as if in the fight’’ (page 4, line 108). It makes Sae think about her father’s adultery and how she really felt betrayed. But especially the word ‘’Sycamore’’ hits her, as she in the last part of the story in a form of a letter mentions, that she is still sycamore seed’’. (page 6, line 190). This use of a symbol has one of the main and most important meanings in the short story. The sycamore three is a nature three, whose leaves are formed as a pair of wings. This can describe Saes independence. However, she describes herself as a sycamore seed, not a leaf. This can mean that she is still developing to become a leaf or a tree. Although the symbol of sycamore is mostly associated with Sae, Tasem also tells Sae of why he wrote it in his poem. He

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