In How to Read Literature like a Professor, Foster also talks about allegories. The relationship between the tiger and Pi can be considered an allegory. A lot of the time spent on the boat is the classic fight of good vs. evil. Pi, seen as a naive child who could do no wrong, takes the role of the good character. Richard Parker represents the savage “dark side” and takes the role of evil. As the story progresses you see that each could not survive without the other. Richard Parker showed Pi that he could not have survived by being the sweet faultless boy who could not kill and eat a fish. Pi showed Richard Parker that he is inferior to Pi by training him and getting him food. The battle between the two at the beginning digressed to a mutual realization that good cannot always conquer evil and evil…
The drawings used in each chapter makes the metaphor of the animals and who has authority, more powerful and also makes the reader feel as if they are apart of Vladek’s Holocaust journey because of the showing and not telling aspect. The use of animals instead of drawings of people to describe the power system during the Holocaust is one of the many great uses of visual aides. In this case to address a metaphor. Some may say that using animals is dehumanizing, especially to the Jews, but that is simply false. The metaphor describes where the Jews were in…
Totem poles are statues, such as the Western Red Cedar. In North America, totem poles are part of the cultures of many indigenous people of Alaska, British Columbia and the Pacific just like in spirit bear when Cole went to Alaska to stay there for a year. Totem poles are sculptures carved from large trees, such as the Western Red Cedar. Totem poles serve many purposes beyond their looks, and their meanings are as clear as the cultures that make them. Some totem poles represent stories and people's life. Each figure on the totem poles represent stories. These totem pole are made and used by the tribes. A lot of totem poles are used to represent a lifestyle .they are also very beautiful.…
I believe that Art Spiegelman chose to depict his characters as mice, cats, pigs and the like because it was symbolic of the position of power at the time of the Holocaust. For example, the Jews are represented as mice. I believe that this is symbolic of the fact that the Jews, like mice, were being hunted and eradicated. Additionally, they were forced to live like mice by hiding and scavenging for food. The Nazis are depicted as cats, I believe, to represent that they were the “hunters”, chasing and killing the Jews. Americans are portrayed as dogs because, in this instance, they drove away the Germans or, the cats. Other characters were represented as animals in this story, as well. For example, the Polish were drawn as pigs and the…
Throughout the novel, we see that the characters are divided into certain distinct groups, which represent the major groups in general society. We also see the social divide between these groups, and while some groups are well represented in society, others are marginalised (i.e. they have barley or no social standing in society).…
Steinbeck uses a lot of stereotyping in his novella, ‘Of Mice and Men.’ He uses Crooks, a black man, to show how black people were treated in the 1930s and he uses Curley’s wife to show how insignificant women were in the 1930s. Steinbeck also uses the vernacular throughout the book to paint a more realistic picture and allow us to understand how people spoke to each other on the ranch.…
‘Of Mice and Men’ is well know for the usage of Animals within the books and without the animals, the book would no nearly be as descriptive as it is, but also it would not have the underlying meaning within the book which is so hard to put into books. Nothing within the book is just ‘ a filler’- everything in the book is there for a reason and links up with other points within the story, all leading up to the one main point at the end of the book. Which, one has to fully understand the book to finally see all of the signs and warnings that Steinbeck gives the reader using animals.…
Imagine being discriminated for the color of you're skin, having you're dreams shattered right before you're eyes, stuck in a place all alone, or losing the closest friend that you have. John Steinbeck does a wonderful job of portraying all of these themes in his book Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck sets his book up during the great depression, there he illustrates the themes of broken dreams, friendship, racism, and loneliness. The main characters are George and Lennie, two migrant workers that stick together for the entirety of the novella. The most important thing that John Steinbeck portrays in his book is the need and desire for companionship all people have.…
Little Rabbit lives with a group of forest animals peacefully until the Terrible Things come. The Terrible things are depicted as a dark and frightening shadow which represents the Nazi’s. The illustrator gives the shadow an almost human like shape which is a very effective use of illustrations. At first they take away the creatures with feathers. All the other animals allow it to happen, and then make excuses for why the Terrible Things might want to remove the birds. This continues until the only creatures left are the white rabbits. When the Terrible Things come for the white creatures, Little Rabbit manages to hide. Left alone in the forest he goes out to tell other creatures about the Terrible Things and the need for forest creatures to stick together. This book breaks down the complicated parts of the Holocaust and tries to explain in a way that children can understand.…
The story starts with the discontented animals, or working class, overthrowing the owner, or monarch. The smartest of the working class, the pigs, establish themselves as the fair rulers. The two smartest pigs, Snowball and Napoleon (or Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin) start quarrelling. While Snowball seems to have the animal's best interests at heart, Napoleon and his power-hungry agenda uses his dogs, or police force, to drive Snowball out. Squealer the pig represents propaganda used to convince the ignorant working class that they have it better than most countries, or farms, do. Slowly, the concept of Animalism that had once stood for freedom and equality is molded into what is best for the pigs, but not the animals. As the story goes on, “animals,” who claim to be acting under Snowball, are murdered by the “dogs” and the “pigs” become more and more like the humans, or tyrants, that the animals had tried so hard to defeat. While the animal story is not true, the metaphor weaved into it is correct about what happened to Russia during and after the Bolshevik…
One of the themes in the novel is inequality. This theme symbolises the Russian Revolution and society in general. This is shown by the example of the animals,” In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in farmhouse”. This shows that through the year, Napoleon spent all his time in farmhouse and did not work as much as the other animals did. The other animals were working like slaves not the pigs. The pigs believed themselves to be the managers and organisers of the farm; they did not sacrifice themselves as much as the other animals did for their society. At the end of the novel, the pigs changed the seventh commandment from “No animal shall kill any other animals” to “No animal shall kill any other animals without cause” (pg61). Napoleon is corrupted by his desire for power, just like Joseph Stalin who was the leader of the Russian Revolution. The revolution in Russia and in “Animal Farm” was to make democracy, however a new leader appears and the leader either kills or exiles someone who has an opinion against them. This is not democracy and shows inequality in Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution. The reader is positioned to understand and feel empathy for the hard working “animals” during the Russian Revolution. Through the use of the events…
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegorical novel that reflects events such as the Bolshevik revolution, the economic reform by Trotsky,the Russian famine in 1921 and during the Stalin era before the Second World War. The pigs represent the communist leadership, and the rest of the animals on the farm symbolize the different parts of Russian society and how the communist takeover of Russia affected them. Two main characters, Snowball and Napoleon (who symbolize Trotsky and Stalin), engages in a political struggle, as both of them wanted to have the power to lead all of the animals. Although Napoleon wins the struggle in the end, Snowball’s political strategy is better than the corrupted leadership of Napoleon.…
Snowball represents Leon Trotsky. Animalism represent Communism. In Animal Farm, the pigs are very unjust to the animals. The seven commandments by the end of the book are gone and replaced by the moto “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” (Orwell, 134). This mocks how the government in Russia is ultimately corrupted just like Animal Farm is. Squealer, playing the part of propaganda, was always in favor of what Napoleon did and always tried to convince the other animals that Napoleon was the best. Squealer would even “talk with tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon’s wisdom, the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere” (Orwell, 93). This is mocking how new and propaganda resources are swayed in favor of the…
Lastly, he highlights that prejudice is cruel through the character of Pavel. Pavel is a Jewish servant working in Bruno’s house.…
There is an abundance of symbolism in Maus I by Art Speigelman. This Graphic Novel features Vladek Speigelman and his family during the Holocaust, from when he first meets his wife Anja Speigelman, to their journey to a concentration camp. Vladek and his family are Jewish and are therefore portrayed as mice. The Germans and/or Nazis are cats, and the Americans are the Dogs. The people who are Polish are pigs. These animals were chosen to show the relationships of the different ethnicities of the people in the book. These Characteristics mimic the long time tale of a bickering mouse and cat and the dog that has to split up the two. The pigs (Polish) seem to take on a somewhat neutral stance in the situation but choose to take whichever side is more dominant in times of crises.…