The Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister Analysis

Synopsis: It is a picture book about a Fish, named Rainbow Fish, who thinks he is too beautiful to hang out with all the other fish. As a result, Rainbow Fish ends up lonely. At the end, Rainbow Fish learns that it is better to have friends than to be prideful.

The theme of “what do fish have to do with anything?” is that unhappiness can sometimes cause someone to be blind and ignorant towards others needs. For instance, Willie’s mom does not want him looking or talking to the homeless man on the streets. She tells her son this because she is unhappy so she does not see what the man is going through and instead says “He is sick do not look at him.” Another example is that Willie’s mother does not like answering Willie’s questions concerning others needs. She does not answer willie’s questions because she could honestly care less about a problem that is not hers. She could care less about other peoples problems because of her unhappiness. To illustrate, at the end of the story the mother has the

The short story “What, of this goldfish, Would You Wish?’ is a emotive short story

Fish magic was created in a pane using oil and watercolors. It combines the components from the sea, such as fish, the earth, which are flowers and the galaxy, that is the moon and the planets. The painting appears as though Klee was conveying a complex story using the elements of the sea, sky on canvas and the earth. He expresses his romantic, expressionist and surreal mood through the painting . Any person examining Klee’s work for the first time will definitely think it was a work of a nursery watercolor worm. After looking carefully at the elements, one can see how the elements in the painting fuse together to illustrate a message after seeing hoe Klee was managed to make an artistic impression using simple elements.

David Foster Wallace wants the reader to realize that the most important and the most obvious realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Seeing what’s right in front of you can be the most difficult thing because you are always looking further and not opening your eyes to see the most obvious parts of life. Wallace is additionally trying to get the reader to tap into the real meaning of life as well as trying to move people away from their “default setting”. The opening of this speech starts out with the story of wise fish and the two young fish. After being asked about the water by the older fish, the two younger fish realize that they don’t know what water is. Fish don’t know water exists until beached;

The fish is a major symbolism within the boy’s life. The fish is mainly an illustration of a lost friendship or love. “Once the boy had seen a huge fish jump up high in the pond’s center, though his father told him the pond held no fish,” (Crabtree 72). The fish is a representation of the young boy’s friendship. The young boy thinks that he has a friend or love, but his father tells him that there is no such thing as a true friend. Stating that the friendship has ended or that the friend has gone away, either due to moving or death. Crabtree then writes, “But the boy had seen one, and was watchful,” (Crabtree 72). The young boy waits for that friendship to come. He waits for that one person that can help him through the ups and downs of life. He has encountered that feeling of love and honesty but now is just waiting for that person to come

At this time in his life, Fish began to run away from the orphanage as well as wetting the bed that he slept in. With bed wetting being normal, no one looked for any signs of him to go

Symbolism can be found in many places in this text, such as the moment when the boy tells his mother that she is “a fish in a cave”, meaning that she has become blinded by her unhappiness, to the point that she can no longer see that she’s unhappy. The story uses these symbolisms to show how something really is, in a way that is understandable rather than bland. If these symbolisms weren’t used we wouldn’t understand that his mother, like the fish, has been stricken blind, however she was blinded not by darkness, but

He talks about how he had to kinda convince her to go on a date with him. There are also may reasons for the narrator to choose the fish. The first reason he should pick the fish is that it’s the biggest fish. One reason is that, the tug on the rode was really strong. In the book it says that his rode bent out of shape and the line tightly coiled and then came a tearing sound of the line.

The fact that the trout swims upstream is significant in itself. This type of fish travels while fighting against current. This scene offers symbolism. The trout represents Nick, and the water symbolizes society.

The last simile Bishop offers compares the fish to an athlete or someone who has accumulated ribbons and metals. In the fish’s lower lip, there are lines and hooks, “Like medals with their ribbons / frayed and wavering, / a five- haired beard of wisdom” (61-63) Like the ancient wallpaper, this simile also describes the fish has withstood over time. The five lines and hooks represent how many times the fish has been caught. Each time the

(Pfister 10). Commodification is prevalent as Rainbow Fish selfishly only focuses on himself. He does not want the scales for their usefulness, he only wants them when other fish are there to admire them. Rainbow Fish only wants the scales if they give him a higher social status. If no one is there to compliment him, then the scales mean nothing to him.

Next, the speaker talks about the fish’s eyes, larger, shallower, and yellower than hers. The different pieces of fishing line caught in his jaw shows how many times he either escaped or was let go by the other fishers. Then the description of the rented boat, the parts of the boat that all turned into a rainbow.

His desires are conveyed through witty puns yearning for her to sing “just the scales” (line 4) and to give him the “fish eye”(line 6). The poet then emphasizes the concept of entrapment for the female goldfish is “[b]ounded by round walls”(line 7). This confinement is mirrored by parenthesis cupping the beginning and end of every stanza like a bowl. He begins to see her flirt, making “fish eyes” (line 8) and “kissy lips”(line 9). By the end of the second stanza, the idiom, “hook, line, and sinker”(line 11), shows that he perceives she has fallen for “his charms”(line 11).

When the little fish come over to the Rainbow Fish, they ask if he can play and if he will share his beautiful scales. He of course, would not.¨Give you one of my scales? What are you thinking of?¨” Rainbow Fish replied, ¨Get away from me!¨ (Slide 5, ¨The Rainbow Fish¨). In this quote the little fish, lower class, went over to the Rainbow Fish, high class, and asked him for one of his scales. Of course, Rainbow Fish was too selfish to give him one.