The use of colors symbolizes the stages in a person’s life. The first room, which is blue, represents birth. The last room, the black room, symbolizes death.…
They were surrounding me with shades of yellow and black; I stood in the middle of a sunflower garden. I wanted to pick a flower for my mom, who was inside of our apartment. I searched around the hoard of flowers until I found the perfect one. Then it fades to black. This exact clip was cut out of my childhood and remains imprinted in my memories for some unknown reason. Every person has one of these “clips” in which they have a vivid memory of one place or time from their youth. Both E.B. White and Eudora Welty explore these memories in their pieces Once More to the Lake, and The Little Store, respectively. Each of these writers focus in on a place from their youth that had a deeper meaning to them. For White,…
“Stupid blue door why can’t you just be like all the others”. These thoughts often flooded Lena’s mind when she came home. Lena’s father painted the door of their house blue while all the others on the reservation were white. Jeannette C. Armstrong the author of Blue Against White clearly shows that Lena is troubled with the life pressure of being different. Immaturity wants assimilation maturity supports individualism.…
The function the color blue has serves in this story is being the symbolization of the fix and…
Where are the memories of our pasts held? In scrapbooks full of photographs, or perhaps written on the pages of a locked diary? Picture though, something as simple and ordinary as a closet full of clothes. Think about its contents, where they have been worn, what they have been through, the stories attached to each item. The nameless protagonist of Diane Schoemperlen's short story Red Plaid Shirt does this as she recalls a snippet of her past life with each article of clothing she picks up. Red plaid shirt, blue sweatshirt, brown cashmere sweater, yellow evening gown, black leather jacket each item has a tale of its very own, and when combined they reveal the full story of the main character's life.…
My squad, 3rd squad, has different strengths depending on their abilities and potential. As a…
Colors permeate every particle of this story; especially blue. Why though? What attracts the woman to her awareness of the colors? What is evil? What is good?…
"Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses" (p.115) Many novels often use colors symbolism similar to the quote to represent characters’ personalities and characteristics. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the colors green, gold/yellow, grey, and blue to exemplify the characteristics of a person or place…
History and memory lead to cultural knowledge and appreciation. In ‘The Fiftieth Gate’, a sense of resolution is reached. Both history and memory work together to reconstruct the past in a way that affects our present. Baker deliberately emphasises this through his documentation of his parents’ memories and this allows him to resolve his identity as a second generation Australian Holocaust survivor. This is highlighted in the appropriation of Descartes’s quote “He remembers, therefore I am”. Likewise, the ‘fifty’ gates symbolise Baker’s journey through his parents’ stories and synthesise the narrative. All of the forty nine gates expose a personal discovery at a particular moment during Baker’s journey, however the fiftieth gate represents the enlightenment and knowledge gained as a result of Baker’s quest. The Roman numerals at the start of each chapter give the text a historical tone and authenticity.…
The two leading female characters in the novel, Daisy and Jordan, are usually seen in white. In addition, Gatsby, when he wanted to meet Daisy again for the first time in five years, wore a white suit as if to show that he was good and pure, when in reality he was not. Daisy's character is enhanced by Fitzgerald's use of the color white to indicate Daisy's freshness and innocence. He notes the gleaming white house, the airy, white rooms, and Daisy lounging in a white dress. Fitzgerald evokes two meanings of white: one is the traditional meaning of purity; the second is the empowerment of whiteness. Daisy, as she is initially presented, represents both privilege and purity--a kind of princess figure. The use of white helps to characterize her as the enchanted princess who becomes incarnate as Gatsby's dream. However, the different shades of white indicate that Daisy may not be an embodiment of purity and that privilege may have a corrupting effect, at least when it is used to veil or whitewash misdeeds. This example corresponds precisely to the presentation of Daisy's character through color symbolism.…
In this city everything is blue including the people, the houses, and the sky. In the Land of the munchkins they are ruled by the good witch of the north who Dorothy meets when she firsts lands. White is the color of a pure witch and blue embodies the color of the munchkins. When Dorothy’s house had landed, she was informed that she killed the wicked witch of the East later than being praised as a sorceress. The Munchkins instantaneously accepted Dorothy since she had a gingham dress on of blue and…
While various symbols could be referred to from the story to bolster this, there are four prevalent symbols all through the story that give trustworthiness to the woman's suffrage subject. The Yellow Wallpaper itself is typical of the mental screen that men endeavored to place on women amid the 1800s. The color yellow is frequently connected with disorder or shortcoming, and the writer's secretive illness is an image of man's oppression of the female sex. The two windows from which the writer frequently associates out of, watching the world however separated from it, is illustrative of the potential outcomes of women if seen as equivalents by the inverse sex. All moves makes place around evening time (Thomas, 2009). In old stories, the moon is ascribed to the feminine and the sun is credited to the masculine. Wallpaper, an outfitting connected with home life, is utilized to speak to the social example of male strength and female accommodation that delineates the Narrator's mental freedom. Generally as the wallpaper with its detaining example actually encompass the Narrator, the course of rest and calm recommended by her physician/husband comes to subdue her body and psyche. Despite the fact that the Narrator's body stays caught compelled to creep by the house and the wallpaper; her psyche liberates itself, first through her diary and afterward by succumbing to craziness and fancy (Thrailkill, 2002). The incongruity that craziness was the thing which her physician/husband most looked to keep away from just aggravates the Narrator's weakness. For, as she watches a few times in the story, her physician/husband has great expectations and is doing what he accepts right. This puts the Narrator in the position of seeming thankless, and accordingly meriting more treatment in the event that she contends against it. The parallels between the…
Near the beginning of the book Blanche is heard singing of “a land of the sky blue water, They brought a captive maid! (27; sc. 2).” Blanche’s reference of “sky blue” indicates a struggle between Stanley and Blanche-- the mixing of blue and white-- and the maid, Stella, is a captive in so much that she must ultimately choose between Stanley and her sister. Another mention is the addition of the pale blue blanket wrapped around Stella’s child at the very end of the book. This symbol is in reference to Stanley’s overall victory over Blanche when it comes to Stella’s…
white color just foreshadow death. After the traveler goes into the future, he sees that mankind is fading over the years. Another color used in the story is the repetition of the color red. The color red is used to describe the sunset, which stands for the ending of humanity, fire or hell, and also blood. All of the negative words throughout the novel place a harsh tone for the rest of the book. Wells uses this to foreshadow the end of humanity he…
In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, emotions and memories of the past create certain physical and mental conflicts for Sethe, the protagonist of the novel. These memories, oftentimes related to Sethe’s experience as a slave, take control of her life. As Sethe continues to recall these memories, she inches closer and closer to insanity. These events that occur with Sethe, in both her past and present, show a theme that Morrison tries to illustrate in the story. This theme shows that the memories of slavery will never die in the eyes of a former slave. This is illustrated through three phases: Sethe’s memories of life at Sweet Home, Schoolteacher’s return, and Beloved and Paul D’s return. All of these help develop the theme.…