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    Two productions that I had enjoyed seeing very much were Lend Me a Tenor and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both of these productions were great and had very great storyline and I really enjoyed both of these productions. Each production had great actors and each portrayed their character very well, by using many of the aspects of the six elements of theatre that Aristotle used to explain the aesthetics of theatre. Each of these productions had very interesting characters and also had great plots

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    parents worry his mental condition and he has difficultly communicate with other people; he meets sybil and share the store about “bananafish”; he finish himself after finds the innocence. In the short store, Salinger uses the characterization, symbolism, and irony to illustrate that is futile search for innocence.   The protagonist in “A perfect day for bananafish,” Seymour, is a world war II soldier who returns home with mental trauma. According to the dialogue between Seymour’s wife and his parent

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    basically strangers who eventually became best friends threw their journey of escaping to Mexico. In We Were Here shows a major theme which a theme is the moral of the story. Within that journey ,Matt de La Pena, the author of We Were Here shows symbolism which created the theme even though you might have a bad past everyone has the chance to change. In our everyday life we see symbols all around us. People wear chains and certain colors because it all symbolizes something. For an example many

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    Akpan, the most defining role of literacy that sticks out is symbolism. The images that are engraved into readers brains are ones that have deeper meanings than what we initially see on the surface. The story is told through the eyes of a little girl named, Monique, who is only nine years old. It is told in first person point of view so that the reader feels as if he/she is actually experiencing the situations first hand. The symbolism in the story, “My Parents; Bedroom,” illustrates the day to day

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    grasshopper to a girl, who was one of many who wanted it, the girl shouted out “Oh! It’s not a grasshopper. It’s a bell cricket.” I read an analysis on this short story on a blog, called “Generation”, and I agree with his thoughts behind the symbolism of the transformation of the bell cricket from the boy to the girl, he states that it could be translated into the development of love and how, as rare as it is in the wild, one can captivate with a simple giving gesture. The narrator goes on to

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    Symbolism is the taking of an object big or small, and giving it something to stand for. It could be your everyday math symbols for addition, subtraction, division, and etc. Although math symbols are perfect examples of symbolism, there’s also objects that can be more than what they are. For example animals, Lions are known to be symbolized as strength, aggression, and assertiveness. Birds like doves are symbolized as love and peace. Colors are also held symbolically, for instance the color black

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    soul rises to the ledge, it hopes the queen’s spirit will allow him to enter. As Yeats explains the owls who “began to call”, dualistic meanings develop; the obvious one being that night has fallen. On the contrary, this idea also implies the symbolism behind the wisdom of the owl. In Webster‘s dictionary, “call” has an alternative meaning of ‘finding fault’. Therefore, an attentive reader can distinguish that the owls are giving a wise warning to the jester about giving his soul to the woman

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    wash the dishes. He is spraying the silverware and "darkened to pale blue" (Wolff 518). This shows again the husband's reference to colors. This happened right after the wife asked if he would marry her if she were black. Wolff added this symbolism right after the question to indirectly show the husbands feelings toward the topic. He shows his dislike for African-Americans when he refused to answer the question. Wolff uses colors to show his negative feelings towards interracial relationships

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    The masterful use of symbolism is delightfully ubiquitous in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” He uses a collection of dim, dark and shadowy symbols that constantly remind the audience of the lost opportunity each of these three characters continually experience. This symbolism is not only use to enlighten the audience to their neglected opportunities to shine, but it is also repeatedly utilized to reinforce the ways in which the characters try in vain to cross over turbulent waters into

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    Symbolism in A Rose for Emily Essay

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    Symbolism in literature is using an object to portray a different, deeper meaning in a story. Symbols represent ideas or qualities that the author has maneuvered into his or her story that has meaning. There can be multiple symbols in a story or just one. It is up to the reader to interpret the meaning of the symbols and their significance to the story. While reading a story, symbols may not become clear until the very end, once the climax is over, and the falling action is covered. In William Faulkner’s

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