Throught The Tunnel Symbolism

After reading the book, The Other Side, the author uses symbolism, tone, and he wrote it to an audience. The book is based on racism, today we may not know about it, and it still goes on today. Whites and blacks have both been against each other until one very powerful leader stopped racism. The book has lots of symbolism related to racism.

Jerry set up a goal to go through itbefore summer vacation ends. He admitted he was afraid of the tunnel, which it a steptowards being mature.

“The Devil and Tom Walker” Allegory Throughout the history of literature there have been many prominent and robust allegories published. “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a short story written by Washington Irving. An allegory can be represented as a story, poem, or essay that can be picked apart to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.

First, symbolism, focusing on the symbols of blood and fire. In the first four pages of the story one would see blood being transparent on the first page,”The smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood..He could not see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father…”(Faulkner 1). This shows us that before Sarty smells the “old blood” he was all sad and torn but, then realizing that familiar smell of his father Sarty starts to remember his duty or mission; Is to keep quiet and protect his family. The blood in this context, symbolizes the sense of family and always protecting one another. Because of Sarty’s desire to protect his family he refuses to respond to the lawyers and barely escapes without a conviction. However, the prosecutor demands the family leave town and never return. This in turn leads to Abner, his father, to beat the lights out of son. After the beating received his father starts to beat him once again to make him understand, and another instance of blood is presented on page 4, paragraph 6 stating,”You’re getting to be a man.You got to learn. You go to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood stuck

Symbolism is a prominent part of many short stories. Within the stories “The Smile”, “The Chrysanthemums”, and “The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas”, symbolism is heavily relied on to fully understand and comprehend each story. Although there are many literary devices used within the short stories, symbolism is predominantly used to develop and bring forth the message of each story.

In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing the main character Jerry is young and sees a group boys do something that he finds interesting, Going through the tunnel. The problem is he is too young and too weak to do it. The boys were Judging and excluding him and it made him sad. Jerry used the negative actions of the french boys as motivation to set a goal of swimming through the tunnel before he leaves. Although Jerry is not physically strong or mature he has a large amount of mental strength and uses what should be his weakness be his strength.

The story Through the Tunnel is about a young boy named Jerry and his mother going on vacation to a beach resort that they have previously visited. The villa they are staying at consist of two beaches. The safe, crowded beach is where Jerry’s mother goes and the wild Rocky Bay is where Jerry ends up spending most of his time. While Jerry swims in the water at the wild bay, he sees a group of boys diving into the water. Jerry knew right when he saw them, he wanted to be just like them. In his eyes, “They were big boys—men to Jerry” (Lessing 148). To show that he was brave, he found the courage to dive off the

In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy uses blood as a unifying concept allowing it to flow within the body of the text; the reader gets a sense that the novel is giving life to someone while simultaneously bringing upon its death. The reality of John Grady exists within the use of blood, connecting his life to the natural beauty and animals through which his character emerges. Blood is essential for the human race; we need it to live, once having bled we learn and if we lose it all, we die. Nonetheless, blood associates us to the world around us; its flow so similar to the flowing waters, its color so alive and “nothing can be proven except that it is made bleed.” (p.230)

The characterization of Jerry illustrates the stages of maturing and becoming independent. In the beginning of the story, Jerry is depicted as young and immature. The immaturity of Jerry is shown when he is trying to capture the older boys’ attention. In order to capture their attention, “he began splashing and kicking in the water like a foolish dog.” This action conveys that Jerry is still immature, and wants to join the older kids. After seeing the boys pass through the tunnel, Jerry also wants to pass through in order to be a part of their group. In order

The intention of repetition throughout a story is to signify a word and draw attention, among many others the word blood was repeated numerous times placing a great significance of the word. The context of the word varies from sentence to sentence, but always circles back to the original sense of sexual desire and virginity. “drunk on the smell of my own young blood

It is these extreme behaviours, which challenge and contradict the values that most individuals have been taught from the very beginning. The values the boy must carry into the future. After the mother’s death, all that stands between him and death is his father’s light. It is this light at the end of the tunnel, which allows the man to continue his quest. Despite all the wrong deeds occurring around the world, the boy progresses through his quest whilst also upholding his values such as dignity, perseverance, justice and faith. But it is a greater story of survival, it is the story of the world surviving with the morals, beliefs and laws that are at risk of losing. This concept of the story profoundly confronts my values and how others reject them for their own survival at any cost. Having experienced the environments of a refugee camp, if people were to abandon their values and beliefs just as the characters in The Road, then there would be no hope or future left for them to look forward to.

Blood is essential to every human beings survival. It is a fluid circulating throughout the body that carries nutrients and oxygen to the tissues in exchange for life and if this was somehow lost then the life would also be lost. It represents life, death, and injury. It is an essential part of life. Without it, we would not live. As a symbol and major theme in Macbeth, Blood is used most often to represent injury and death, but also life. In Macbeth, he uses blood to represents impurity. Shakespeare often accompanies the image of water with the image of blood. The water represents cleansing and purity.

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Blood is something that we need to live. So it is clearly understood when Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood to represent murder, betrayal, and death, to show all of the evil that was going on. It is a symbol that was used the most in the play Macbeth, and had different meanings.

It also indicates a revolt against the oppression and prejudice that trouble the African Americans. It is particularly Daniels’ color of the skin that makes him fear the law and society all the more since he cannot see any hope because of his black color. In this context the sewer is a second home that keeps Daniels safe from prejudice, discrimination and all the disorder found in the upper-world. Underground represents the light in the dark. It represents freshness away from the suffocation people like Daniels had to bear when amid the society. Underground also represents protection from the miserable life Daniels would find in the upper world. In this way, underground is a symbol of escape and revolt. At this point, it does not represent poverty or misery but is like a cave which protects Daniels from the troubles found