Zaita In Brave New World

This symbolizes that she knows that stealing is wrong but she is going to steal the money from her mother in order to help her father. "I looked out the window and saw only an ash-grey sky." Pg. 4. The author uses the describing term "ash-grey" to connect with the main character and her connection with her father. "In the coldness and stillness of the night,..." Pg. 4. This is the author showing that the cold is representing the fact that she knows stealing from her mother could tear her family apart even more she does it for the love and faith she has for her father. The dark sky symbolizes that she feels bad about taking the money but she has to choose between to very important things in her life, and she chooses to help her father by taking the

“Blackness,” by Jamaica Kincaid, introduces the short story with a description of the silent and soft blackness. Even though she discovers happiness when buried in blackness, it prevents the unknown narrator from speaking her own identity. It devours her memories and retracts her voice. The narrator feels no joy when immersed in the blackness; she becomes wrapped in turmoil and anarchy. The narrator has brief moments of joy from time to time: the setting sun´s beauty, a laughing child playing with a red ball, and her gazing at clear blue skies. There is a little “blackness” in everyone. The story exposes the different types of blackness that can control one’s life through their fulfillment, stress, weary, power, and identity.

The idea of light and dark plays a significant role in the black society of the 1950s that the narrator and Sonny grew up in. The narrator once speaks of a time when many family members and friends would get together to chat and eat Sunday dinner at his parent's home after church service. He alludes to the darkness once again by saying that moments would occur when the stark silence of the adults brought on by a serious conversation or a dismal revelation, perhaps about a death in the community or some other dark happening that penetrated the light that they had just before talked and laughed so freely in, threatened to prematurely alert the children of what the world around them was really like (98). At this point, the children are completely oblivious to the racism and other immoralities that thrive in the world they will soon have to venture into, but they are able to sense that something very distasteful is imminent, hence the child wishing that "the hand which strokes his forehead will never stop - will never die" (98). This idea of being an innocent child during a very tempestuous time was more than many young men could cling on to. The narrator was able to escape from the lifestyle

O’Connor utilizes color to surrounds every aspect of the short story by detailing what an object represents in relation to how we reach salvation. The beginning of the story starts out with Shiftlet coming to an desolate farm with an old lady and her daughter. Shiftlet arrives with “... a black town suit and a brown felt hat that was turned up in the front and down in the back and he carried a tin tool box by a handle.”(O’Connor 23) Not only is his black coat symbolizing death

She is also a very determined to be right and will do whatever it takes to be right like for example, when Jay and her were arguing about whether he is a racist or not, she never let her guard down. When Zana was talking to Jay she said, “Big football star can’t remember the little people along the way” (Ellis and Walters 188). Zana is saying that he can’t remember his non popular friends and should not just think about his football friends, but think about others too. Zana helps Jay a lot to realize who he wants to be and if he wants to be a dead fish (follower) or not. Zana promotes tolerance in

“The Little Black Boy” is about an African child who has come to term with his “blackness” and with divine being that created him God. The basis of the poem is built around the imagery of light and dark. In the first stanza the boy cries:“I am black but O! my soul is white” and “I am black as if bereav’d of light.” The black boy feels that his blackeness is a burden

Skimming the surface of the story, an abundance of symbols can be signaled out, but a recurrence of symbols is very important. One of the most prevalent symbols found in this story is the darkness of Senora Consuelo's old colonial mansion. The house is so dark the characters must learn to maneuver by sound and touch. The darkness sets the tone for the whole story. Senora Consuelo's room is not bathed in light but filled with "perpetual

Black symbolizes death. The black box for drawing and the slip of paper with a black pot are symbols tend to the ending. The one who gets the “big price” is Tessie Hutchinson who disputes the drawing twice. She is the one not following the rule, doubts the ritual. And the purpose that the villagers doing this drawing by forgotten the point of it, is to get rid of people fall off the road, to keep their village in a traditional way, in their eyes.

The author uses language as a tool to show the characters’ status in society as black or white. Various language techniques are used to display the classes of society. The words “blanker” (used by blacks to describe whites) and “dagger” (used

Meanwhile, the white slips of paper that are drawn from the black box represent the equality among villagers. Whoever picks the fatal slip will find a black spot on their paper. Equally, all of the villagers are vulnerable to the terrible fate of death. As for color, white can symbolize innocence and

In this quote the “coffins of black'; symbolize the chimneys (554). Ultimately this all symbolizes the boys’ death because of their terrible life cleaning chimneys at such a young age. In the next stanza an Angel comes “And he opened the coffins and set them all free,'; which symbolizes the boys’ death and escape to heaven. All of these symbols cause feelings of sympathy in the reader, hopefully causing them to want to help these children escape their fate.

However, as the narrator prepares to visit the bazaar, a shift takes place. His light begins to turn to darkness as reality sinks in. While waiting for his uncle to come home so he can leave himself, the narrator looks over at the “dark house” where the girl lives. He then stands there merely visualizing the “lamplight at the curved neck”. There is darkness at

Wislawa Szymborska's "The Kindness of the Blind" describes the challenge of reading a poem to a blind person. The poet is not the speaker, but the speaker knows what the poet is thinking as he reads the poem, allowing the reader to understand the poet's emotions. Initially, the poet is surprised by his own anxiety over reading the poem; he "did not suspect it was so hard" to read to a blind person (2). He is conscious of his own apprehension, and the speaker notes that "his voice is breaking/his hands are shaking"(3-4). The reader is left wondering why the poet is so nervous, and the speaker explains the source of the apprehension in line 5. Because his audience is a blind man, the poet feels that "here each sentence is put to the test of the dark" (5-6). He cannot rely on outside scenes or the listener's own mental images to enhance his writing; it is laid bare in front of him, causing him to critique his own

Dambudzo Marechera writes of the insanity he feels as a result of his own desperate racial confusion and accompanying self hatred in Black Skin What Masks. In this story Marechera begins by placing the overall notion of discomfort that accompanies one’s skin being black on the same level as an unnamed friend. The description of the friend points very clearly to different levels of insanity while simultaneously, the reader’s attention is constantly being brought back to the point at hand, the issue of race. Ultimately, the main character’s (author’s) discomfort regarding his racial identity and his efforts to change that are displayed as a completely separate persona from

The alley is also said to live in “complete isolation from all surrounding activity” (Mahfouz,1) indicating that it is entirely bounded and all activity that happens in it is restricted to only the people of the alley showing how the topographical “trap” also relates to the social entrapment that the alley is facing. With no reference to the outside world, the alley is bound to be a trap that no one, not even Hamida, can escape. The claustrophobic state of the alley reflects the oppression propagated by the alleys rejection to modern values. This is further shown by the description of the atmosphere of the alley when it is described to be “veiled in the brown hues of the glow.” (Mahfouz,1) the use of the color brown, indicating visual imagery, shows the negative claustrophobic, and gloomy atmosphere which runs through the alley. The color brown is a color between black and white, symbolizing negativity and positivity, respectively. However, the color black is more evident in the color brown, therefore symbolizing negativity of the alley as it was “veiled” with the brown hues meaning it was masked with gloominess and pessimism. The alley is also described as having a “distinctive life of its own” (Mahfouz,1) proving once again that the alley and the people within it are limited between the boundaries of the alley and their life only consists of the people within the alley with no