Why I Hate The Color Red

The color red symbolics all of the colors and how each can have numerous emotions coming

Color can also determine perception and time; as in The Skeleton Key with the light, moss and old trees; the colors of light, neutral and earth tones are considered the good powers. On the other hand when we think of evil, blood or violence we think of the color red. When someone gets hurts and there’s blood, immediately it triggers a warning signal to another person; danger, somethings happened. When we see a lot of blood we know it’s a dangerous situation and it means possible death. To some it’s Dracula, sacrifice, devil, and fire. Everyone has a right to believe how they want. In The Skeleton Key we see throughout the movie the color red; how red lines of red brick dust are placed in various locations. Caroline uses the brick dust to try to keep Violet, evil out. Surprisingly, flabbergasted by the results, Caroline realizes the truth about Violet when she will not enter the room. Although Hoodoo is a religion, it’s not real unless you believe it’s real; like witchcraft and voodoo. When Caroline goes in the secret room of the attic, she discovers hair, blood, bones and hoodoo ritual paraphernalia. Caroline approaches Violet and tells her what she found and told her she needs to know what happened to Ben when he was in the attic. Violet

Today’s society has many different associations for the color red. Red is most often paired with intensity, anger, and aggression. Red is often times a standout color, not modest at all. Policemen are told that when radaring, they should look for red cars first because

Death also used the colors of the spectrum to describe his job as a “soul gatherer” and the connection with people. Death says “A color will be perched on my shoulder and I will gently carry you away” (Zusak, 4). This explains what Death does when he collects souls. He uses the colors to recollect on events, trauma and his own personal feelings. In discussing the colors, this emphasizes the act of describing the difficult experience of WWII in which returns to the fact that Death is made to resemble a human.

Red, like any other color in this novel, is symbolic, perhaps more so than others. Love and tragedy, though seemingly opposite, are both symbolized by red. On page 12, Zusak says through Death, “The last time I saw her was red.” (Zusak 12) Death is saying this about seeing Liesel Meminger.

The color red is used in literature as well as throughout The Book Thief to display war, blood, and anger (Morton). Early in the novel, Death associates red with war, “The last time I saw her was red… Then bombs” (Zusak 12), Death uses the

In literature, red is often associated with blood and violence. Four researchers, Erella Hovers, Shimon Ilani, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Bernard Vandermeersch, studied colored symbolism and concluded; “Color symbolism is one of the symbolic frameworks used extensively by contemporary societies to convey information and abstract messages through material objects” (Hovers et al.,2003.) Through the use of colors, May vividly expresses the emotions of the speaker towards society, regarding the topics of warfare and education. He specifically selects certain colors, like black and red, to stir up emotions within Jontae. The colors create a symbolic image, ultimately leading up to represent the violent scenes taking place. May writes his fear; “I know how often red is the only color left to reach” (18-19), to show his apprehension for Jontae a young male in society surrounded by warfare. Red in literature often represents blood, sacrifice, and violence. Using colors throughout the poem, creates a more vehement atmosphere, in which Jontae is left to choose between warfare, and discovering his identity in an alternative

The author James hurst keeps bringing up the color red so you keep thinking of it and keep wondering what importance it has.

I was in school when I got a news flash about a shooting near a bus stop. At lunchtime, I opened up the story and it read, “Teen killed on way to lake park bus stop”. However, it wasn’t the headline that hit me but rather the first line of the article which mentioned that a Palm Beach Gardens high school teen, Claverle Joseph, was the one that was killed on his way to the bus stop. I didn’t know how to react. I just froze; I couldn’t process the emotions that were swirling through my mind. This was the first time in my life that I dealt with a death that was personal to me. My Grandparents had died when I was too young to recount any experiences with them. It was difficult to comprehend that I would never see a kid that I had gotten to know so well over the last three years ever again. My family and I did what we could for his family in there grieving state and donated to help raise money for his funeral. Although his death came as a surprise, I knew there was something wrong before the incident occurred because he did not come out for the travel team that last year. This was strange because he truly loved the team and playing basketball. Following my suspicion, a couple days after his death, I found out that there had been a series of incidents, including a shooting one week before his death in which he had been shot in the hand. His family stated for the news that they had been living in fear of their son’s life for a while. I wish I could have done more for him because whether he knew it or not he did so much for my growth as a person on and off the court. His life and this experience taught me to truly value one’s own life and to never take anything for granted because it could all be erased in an instant. His death helped me understand that I need to be as compassionate and empathetic for everyone I meet because you will never comprehend what adversities and difficulties they face in their

Red, in this book, is a fearful, atrocious color that represents all the chaos and destruction that happens everywhere. Death said, “ That basement was not a washroom and they were not sent there for a shower.” He was talking about how all the Jews in the concentration camps that were getting murdered every day in what was called, “Showers.” Including that where the air raids coming to Himmel Street. The most fatal air raid occurred during the night when no one was aware and all sleeping. On that day, everyone was murdered without a chance of survival. Everyone, but Liesel was dead and lifeless.

To illustrate, director often uses red details in scenes to symbolise danger, small things such as a scarf on Dr Sattler’s neck in the beginning of the film. These tiny details indicated the audience about danger and builds a fearful mood. In addition, the weight of the evidence suggest that, colours and lights can make any situation appealing and horrifying.

In the short story, “A Red Dress 1946” by Alice Munro, Color imagery is used for signifying a girls point of view of her world and her own self by using the color red which represents nonconformity. The narrator has only a slight interest in being red, but she really wants to be blue, just like everyone else. Munro writes, “When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all…that I had blood on my skirt”.(2) The narrator is just so nervous about being red she is thinking of bad things that can happen with the color red. She is thinking of all the bad times the color red could do a girl badly, just like a girls period could leak at any moment. In “A Red Dress 1946”, a short story by Alice Munro, she uses Color Imagery to show the significance of the narrator’s view of the color red and all the “Evil” about it.

One of the most important motifs of Zuask’s book was Death’s observations of colors. “A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors” (Zuask 4). Death uses colors as a distraction, to let it forget for even the slightest second that it is taking the soul of a once actually living thing. “It takes the edge off the

     David R. Dudley states that “the Red Death symbolizes death in general” (Dudley 169). This

It makes us think how the color red is linked to fear and danger. So