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    Color In The Kite Runner

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    Hassan’s clothing. “He wore black leather snow boots and a bright green chapan over a thick sweater . . .” The author’s primary purpose of having Hassan wearing this is to show how Hassan is pure, young and innocent. The reason the author didn’t choose white, though, is that the green can also convey an underlying sense of jealousy. The author repeatedly writes about how Amir is always fighting for Baba’s attention, and how much he wants it for himself and only himself. Hassan’s green chapan symbolizes

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    with the gender and number of the word being described. Examples: un cane nero a black dog una macchina gialla a yellow car quattro cani neri four black dogs 3 case bianche three white houses Here are the most common color words: rosso red blu blue giallo yellow arancione orange nero black verde green bianco white rosso Bordeaux maroon biondo blonde rosa pink marrone brown viola purple castano brunette grigio gray violetto violet blu chiaro light blue oro gold argento silver Chapter 8: Forming

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    Topic Number 1 Why is the color red a symbolism in the film The Village? The important reason why red is a symbolism would be that The Things We Don't Speck Of wear a red coat and they are attracted to the color red. The villagers are afraid of the color red, the color brings fear and hate to the villager's life style. If the villagers see the color red like a red flower they would bury it in to the ground, so it would not attract there major fear. Red is the color of blood which provides "hurt"

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    Great Gatsby by F. Scotts Fitzgerald uses the colors white, gold and green to show emotion or emphasise the themes in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the color white to show purity. On page 84 the word white is used and it says. “Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and golden colored tie hurried in” Gatsby shows up in white suit when he’s about to meet Daisy after 5 years. The color white is associated with purity and cleanliness. White also represents a successful beginning. Fitzgerald

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    The use of pastel blues, greens, and pinks hint at the perfect lifestyle that members in this society are trying to achieve. The white and bright pastel colors worn by wedding guests give a sense of perfection that corresponds with their high ratings and status in society. As Lacie tries to increase her ratings through insincere interactions, the pastel colors suggest a flawless,

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    Dong!!! The chapel’s bell rung through the night, the howls of wolves piece the silent night. The flutter of bat wings fill the night filling the sky with blackness but she saw one last star as the night turned black, she smiled, because she knew what was coming, for the mortals it was Halloween, for the creatures of the night, it’s the Blair moon. She wasn’t originally a creature of the night, she was a werecat, a rare kind of werewolf birthed from a chandre cat with a werewolf bite on a blue moon

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    born within the borders of Southern America by the whites and Europeans, nonetheless isolated by the rest of the entire continent by being confined in a French region overseas. In addition, the title itself, Whitewash, implies an idea of true identity being obscured by others with intent of making his or her true identity disappear or become masked permanently as if it did not exist. The poem commences with discontent for which “they”, the white people, treat and behave as if the black people were

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    in quest for love and freedom. The novel has diverse relations of apathy and love between the characters. The author Esquivel illustrates these relations by the use of the colors red and white. Throughout the novel Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses the colors red and white to symbolize love and apathy in the relationships between the characters. Laura Esquivel uses the color red to symbolize love and passion in relationships. In the following quote "Mamma

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    Great Gatsby Color Imagery & Symbolism Essay

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    Great Gatsby is white. White represents the innocence and purity in the book. Daisy and Jordan are first introduced wearing white. It makes you think that the ladies’ are pure from the start of the book. Later on it is realized that neither one of the girls is all that pure. They are obviously not pure since they both are not so innocent. In the book is says Jordan cheats in her golf

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    A Fluid Mosaic Of Color

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    symbols used are vague, while some are specific. The colors most prominently represented are the hope and purity of white, the optimism of green, the wealth of gold and the faux wealth of yellow. In The Great Gatsby, the color white stands for unblemished, honorable, and pure perfection. When Nick is moving in, one of the first things he happens to notice is how "Across the courtesy the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water..." (Fitzgerald 5). The East Egg is seen as old money;

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