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    Red is a color with many connotations. Before synthetic dyes, red has been a color solely for the rich. Some cultures deem it an inherently sexual color. For impoverished young Karen in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Red Shoes, red is irresistible. At the beginning of the tale, Karen is given raggedy red shoes made by an old shoemaker's wife. Luckily for Karen, a queen takes pity on her and decides to take care of her. Soon, everyone is calling her pretty. A mirror insists that she is beautiful

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    and produce glucose. Sunlight contains all of the colors of the visible light spectrum, from red to violet, and each color has a different wavelength (Thiele, 2017). When all the waves are seen together, they make white light. Light is essential in a plant's life. Without light, a plant cannot grow, reproduce, or photosynthesize. Chlorophyll traps light energy from the sun and absorbs primarily blue and red light, while reflecting green light (USCB, 2000). Plants utilize the different colors found

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    Throughout Lemire and Smallwood’s Moon Knight: Lunatic, the dramatically different artistic styles being utilized serve to draw attention to the crucial question that people suffering from mental illness regularly ask themselves: What’s real? In other words, what course of action does a person take when he/she becomes aware of his/her mental illness and struggles to distinguish between reality and fantasy? These are the tribulations that Marc Spector, the protagonist, must deal with throughout the

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    movie as a whole. Nolan’s film The Prestige uses the red ball throughout the film to represents the fatherly love from Borden to his daughter: Jess, revealing the love, longing, determination, hope and promise he has for his daughter. The tiny little red balls are used as a symbol for Borden’s relationship with his daughter. The red balls show up in contrasting moments in the film. For example, Borden gives his daughter Jess the little red balls when they first saw their new house. In this moment

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    “The Red Convertible” is short story written by Louis Erdrich. This is story of two Native American brothers, Lyman Lamartine (narrator) and Henry (protagonist), and their growing bond as brothers. Lyman has a talent to make money, but he decides to go on a trip with his brother Henry when the tornado destroy the Joliet café that he owned. Along with his brother, he bought red Old’s Mobile convertible together, which they travel many different places from North Dakota through to Alaska and back.

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    My Name Is Red

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    Colors and Characters My Name Is Red is set in the late 1500’s as a mystery novel in search of the murderer of miniaturist, Elegant Effendi. It also looks into a culture of European society in contrast to the traditional Muslim society of Ottoman Istanbul. Most importantly, symbolism is a major piece of the novel, having each chapter give a different perspective from an inanimate or living thing. Along with characters showing symbolism, the title portrays the color red to have an important meaning due

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    Color In Flatland

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    The vibrancy of the contrasting hues envelop the vision of numerous humans and guide the perception of one’s own surroundings. However, in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, there is no such existence of the concept of colors. The Colorless Act is where colors have been outlawed for reasons deemed justifiable by the Circle officials in the governing department of Flatland. These mere reasons to outlaw include, colors being a risk to society, causing chaos, manipulation, and negatively altering

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a lot of symbolism. There are huge, obvious and also small, hard to see symbolic messages. One of the small and hard to see symbolic messages is the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Depending on the things going on in the book, depends on the symbolism in my eyes. I believe that the green light in chapter 1 means that there is hope, when mentioned in chapter 5 it means fascination, and in chapter 9, I believe that the green light symbolizes sadness.

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    "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich presents many iconic symbols that portray the lives of two Chippewa brothers who live on an Indian reservation in North Dakota. The first major symbol in the story is the red convertible and it signifies the bond between Lyman and Henry. Before the war, the red car is in great condition and the brothers are happy. The brothers spend much of their time together and care for each other deeply, as shown by their actions and the road trip they go on. During the

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    Beyond the Labels Red is a color commonly associated with anger, war, strength, love or passion. In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, it is used to show a moment of luck between two children, a sky of fire and loss, beaten love, literature, and many other things. The Book Thief is narrated by Death, who describes people and scenes as colors. Throughout the novel, a variety of things are explained as red.There are a few humans that fascinate Death, and Liesel Meminger is one of them. Red, like any other

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