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The story is set in Ohio, Arizona, The Graveyard, and Happy Jack Harvest Camp. The mood of the story is stressful because Connor Lev and Risa face a lot of obstacles trying to escape from being unwound

“The Possibility Of Evil” by Shirley Jackson has many different forms of symbolism. One piece of symbolism is Miss Strangeworth’s roses, throughout the story she takes care of them. “Miss Strangeworth never gave away any of her roses, although tourists often asked her.” This piece of evidence shows how Miss Strangeworth is protective of her roses. Another piece of evidence to support the authors form of symbolism is when she cared and tended to the plants throughout the story. Throughout the story, tone is used to relate objects to real people. One form of tone is when Miss Strangeworth talks about her roses. “My grandmother planted these roses, and my mother tended them, just as I do.” This statement shows how Miss Strangeworth cared and tended the roses just as someone would care to a child. Jackson uses many forms of symbolism, and roses were just one of them.

Mary and Karl’s contrasting interactions with the tree encapsulate their differing personalities. This makes Karl a blossoming flower in comparison to

Nurse Ratched has just learned of the secret party that took place in the middle of the night the previous evening. She is enraged at the patients and when she finds Billy in the seclusion room with Candy, she manipulates Billy by threatening to tell his mother he slept with Candy. Billy crumbles under the pressure and

She is upset by the loss of the day even though her mother attempts to distract her with a garden of flowering violets, her father also attempts to comfort her. Finally, she returns to sleep after dinner. Her memory is a positive memory and the motif if the violets are used to link the past and present as it will help her get through her dark times. In the visual her memory is included, and he mother confronting her is one of the main images that she remembers from this. The image of her mother comforting her is a very important one, as it establishes the role and persona of a mother at the time and how women in that era were seen as to stay home look after children and the men went out and worked to support the

Seemingly, the flowers represent Elisa. She believes she is strong and tough and able to accomplish anything thrown her way; however, taken for granted as she is only a woman allowed to look and act accordingly. Surrounding the flowers is a wire fence set up to keep out predators and to separate the flowers from the rest of the farm. The wire fence is symbolic in the fact that it is identical to the world Elisa lives in. Elisa is contained within the farm, unable to explore or leave without the help of someone else. Elisa is stuck on the farm, isolated from the rest of the world so that she can be kept safe. Naive and unaware of how the world works, her husband keeps her on the farm to protect her from harm. When Elisa gives the chrysanthemum to the travelling merchant, she gives him a small piece of herself. Later, as her and her husband are driving to town, she sees the flower tossed aside as though it was nothing; as a result, she realizes she could never go off on and live the way the merchant had. The flowers embody her character still, and how out of her home without protection, the world can be harsh and cruel. In short, Elisa’s isolation leaves her ignorant, unable to understand how callous the world is, and comes to the bleak realization that she can’t live a life anywhere outside of her fence. Because of how women were treated, constantly pushed down and unable to pursue their interests, Elisa is left unable to learn what life has to offer. Learning

Lily, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. As the novel opens, she lies in bed, waiting for the bees that live in the walls of her bedroom to emerge and fly around, as they do most nights. T. Ray, her father, is abusive and does not believe her story about the bees. Her nanny and housekeeper, Rosaleen, believes Lily but also thinks Lily is foolish for trying to collect the bees in a jar. Lily recalls her very last memory of her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was a small child. Lily thinks that she played a horrible part in Deborah’s death. In a flashback, readers learn that T. Ray told Lily that she accidentally shot Deborah while Deborah and T. Ray were fighting one day.

John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums” features many themes: themes of gender suppression, love, passion, and betrayal. This short story revolves around the character Elisa Allen who has a strong love and a great passion for her flowers, for her beloved chrysanthemums. However, when a mysterious man arrives towards the end of the text Elisa’s love and passion for the chrysanthemums weakens and she feels betrayed by one of the things she loves most. Steinbeck uses the unlikely encounter between the Tinker and Elisa, as well as, the encounter between Elisa and her husband as a way to express the theme of love and betrayal.

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

At the end of the story, Elisa sees her seedlings that she had given the tinkerer lying on the roadside. This not only tells of the

The Secret Life of Bees is about a fourteen year old girl who lost her mother when she was four. Ever since her mother died, her father T. Ray, short for Terence Ray would abuse her. Rosaleen is the maid. She acts as a motherly figure toward Lily. Lily, the fourteen year old girl, and Rosaleen, run away to Tiburon, South Carolina after she finds a picture of her mother with Tiburon on the back. They find a pink house after they see honey with an exact same picture on it as one that Lily has. They find that three sisters, May, June, and August Boatwright live there. As they stay there, they feel more and more like they belong there. The movie has added and taken away some parts and scenes in the book, but also, there are some similarities.

The movie’s main theme tends to contrast two groups of people in the society. One group consists of people who come from the rural areas while the other group is that of people from the urban setting. The social norm of the people in the rural areas is based on simplicity and illiteracy. The story revolves around the murder of one of The Ward Brothers. The death of William occurs and his brother Delbert is accused of killing him. Delbert denies the allegations but before he is set free he is taken into custody and made to sign some forms.

The book The Cellar, is about a young girl named Summer fighting and struggling to survive.

In this scene it shows women in distress which is an element of gothic literature. This moment also intensifies the end of the story with her horrifying body. Also in scene 16 Watkins decided to put all the kids that

The Secret Life of Bees begins in the town of Sylvan, South Carolina and tells the story of 14-year-old Lily Melissa Owens. She lives on a peach orchard with her neglectful and abusive father, T. Ray. They have Black maid named Rosaleen who is a companion and caretaker of Lily. The book opens with Lily's discovery of bees in her bedroom and the story of how she killed her mother. The eve before her birthday Lily sneaks out into the peach orchard to visit the box of her mother’s belongings which is buried there however before she can hide them T. Ray finds her and punishes her. The next day Rosaleen and Lily head into town where Rosaleen is arrested for pouring her bottle of tobacco spit on three white men. Lily breaks her out of prison and they begin hitchhiking toward Tiburon, SC, a town Lily had seen on the back of a picture of a black Virgin Mary which her mom had owned. They hitch a ride to Tiburon and once there, they buy lunch at a general store, and Lily sees a picture of the same Virgin Mary on a jar of honey. She asks the store owner where it came from and he gives her directions to the Boatwright house. They then meet the makers of the honey: August, May and June Boatwright, who are all black. Lily makes up a wild story about being recently orphaned. The sisters welcome Rosaleen and Lily into their home. They are then introduced to beekeeping and the Boatwright’s way of life. Lily learns more about the Black Madonna honey that the sisters make. She begins working