Symbols In The Great Bobby
Paragraph One, Symbol: Spray paint
The spray paint colors symbolized the pain that bobby was feeling as he got older or during his coming of age. The colors of the paint were blue, red and black. Those colors are usually on bruises on our bodies. When Bobby was painting his scene he started crying, which was showing the pain that he was in because he couldn't find himself in his trapped up "child" body. Inside of Bobby's body was his new self, his self that is coming of age. His more grown up self. Bobby used the cans of spray paint to show us, the readers, that he was painting the scene to show us that bobby is coming of age and he is losing that childish flow of events that is going on in his life.
Paragraph three Symbol: The wall
The wall that Bobby spray painted was a large brick wall that he had his eye on for a long time. Before Bobby went to the wall he dropped Feather off at the sitter, Jackie. He only planned on being there until he had to leave for school. So Bobby started using the cans of paint on the wall, he painted himself as a young pale ghost boy with no face looking into a mirror. He then later drew Nia as a beautiful young girl that didn't even knew bobby was there. Bobby remembers what he and his friends used to do around this wall. He and K-boy would climb a fire ladder …show more content…
When Bobby found out that Just Frank had been shot and killed while trying to shield a girl fro being dragged into an alley and being jumped. He had been a part of Bobby's life for a super long time. Even though Just Frank was walking around all the time drunk with a forty shoved into a plastic bag, that girl being dragged into the alley brought out the hero in him. Bobby helped pay for his funeral because Just Frank did not have any family members because he was a homeless. With Bobby paying for Just Franks funeral showed that he cared for Frank, which also showed bobby coming of age in the
The spray paint colors symbolized the pain that bobby was feeling as he got older or during his coming of age. The colors of the paint were blue, red and black. Those colors are usually on bruises on our bodies. When Bobby was painting his scene he started crying, which was showing the pain that he was in because he couldn't find himself in his trapped up "child" body. Inside of Bobby's body was his new self, his self that is coming of age. His more grown up self. Bobby used the cans of spray paint to show us, the readers, that he was painting the scene to show us that bobby is coming of age and he is losing that childish flow of events that is going on in his life.
Paragraph three Symbol: The wall
The wall that Bobby spray painted was a large brick wall that he had his eye on for a long time. Before Bobby went to the wall he dropped Feather off at the sitter, Jackie. He only planned on being there until he had to leave for school. So Bobby started using the cans of paint on the wall, he painted himself as a young pale ghost boy with no face looking into a mirror. He then later drew Nia as a beautiful young girl that didn't even knew bobby was there. Bobby remembers what he and his friends used to do around this wall. He and K-boy would climb a fire ladder …show more content…
When Bobby found out that Just Frank had been shot and killed while trying to shield a girl fro being dragged into an alley and being jumped. He had been a part of Bobby's life for a super long time. Even though Just Frank was walking around all the time drunk with a forty shoved into a plastic bag, that girl being dragged into the alley brought out the hero in him. Bobby helped pay for his funeral because Just Frank did not have any family members because he was a homeless. With Bobby paying for Just Franks funeral showed that he cared for Frank, which also showed bobby coming of age in the