understanding and importance of the spoken words and what it symbolizes. After being raped at the tender age of 8 years old‚ Marguerite Johnson entered into a cocoon. This was her haven against the world after she was raped. Marguerite explains‚ “I sopped around the house‚ the store‚ the school and the church‚ like an old biscuit‚ dirty and inedible”(Angelou‚ 1970 ‚p.87). This shows her low self-esteem and unhappiness within herself. As with
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Informative speech Colors of the rainbow! Colors of the ocean! Colors of gems! Colors of the Nations! What does it means? In today’s society colors symbolizes many different forms of meaning. . It represents feelings‚ people‚ countries‚ cultures‚ and color symbolism Red symbolizes action‚ confidence‚ courage‚ vitality. It is the warmest of all colors. On the negative side red mean temper or anger. In china‚ red is the color of prosperity and joy. In South Africa‚ however red
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In the novel‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ the conch symbolizes democracy. At the beginning of the chapter two‚ Raph hesitantly calls a meeting‚ through the conch‚ he finds the power to be a leader. As he nervously looked around‚ “Ralph lifted the cream and pink shell to his knees and a sudden breeze scattered light over the platform...all at once he found that he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say” (Golding 31). As Ralph is picking up the conch‚ a disturbance is in the atmosphere‚ showing
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Ronil V. Matuguina August 16‚ 2010 Reaction Paper #2 IE Theme: Forever witches is a story that depicts “selfishness” This simply shows that the main character in the story “Maring was actually a selfish person. This was proved in the part of the story where Mating uses voodoo doll on Julio‚ to make him love her madly. Maring wants to be the only woman Julio will ever look though Julio was tortured. Maring didn’t think about Julio‚ she loves only herself‚ because she didn’t
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were more superstitious than we are. They believed in witches and thought that they were the devils disciples. They were believed to be able to control the weather‚ blamed many things‚ such as outbreaks of disease on them. The first people to meet the Witches are Banquo and Macbeth. They find the witches appearance is vile. We can see this as Banquo says that “(they) look not like the inhabitants of the earth.” This shows us that the witches are obviously strange‚ and probably misshapen in their
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personality‚ whether it is‚ an idea in particular‚ or a thing that is part of his surroundings. One of the most noticeable symbols in the story is the red hunting hat. The hat symbolizes Holden ’s uniqueness and his desire to be the one who stands out from the crowd. He also uses the hat as a method to avoid people. "What I did was‚ I pulled the old peak of my hunting hat around to the front‚ then pulled it way down over my eyes. That way I couldn ’t see a thing." (Salinger‚ 21) The way the hat looks
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The grasshopper and the Bell Cricket could symbolize many things. In my opinion‚ the grasshopper symbolizes common love and the bell cricket symbolizes rare love. “And finally‚ to your clouded. wounded heart‚ even a true bel cricket will seem like a grasshopper” (Kawabata 68) Another symbolic movement in the story is when the boy finds the grasshopper and the girl comes along to tell all of the kids that it was a bell cricket and not a grasshopper. The boy was not able to recognize the bell cricket
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The Congo River encloses the Congo to represent a barrier between light‚ the outside‚ and dark‚ the inside of Africa. In Joseph Conrad’s novel‚ Heart of Darkness‚ the Congo River symbolizes movement and a journey into one’s inner spirit. The main character Marlow is on a journey to Africa to meet Kurtz‚ a man of great abilities. Marlow joins The Company‚ a trading company in the Congo‚ in order to be able to travel. Marlow’s journey takes course on the Congo River whose current is flowing strong
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Tiffany Moore 800806777 Who am I? Many different ingredients go into making an intricate cake. Alone‚ all the parts to the whole are meaningless. The flour is not something particularly tasty‚ and the frosting can make you sick if you eat it by itself. I am not simply the raw materials separated into different piles‚ but the finished product of every aspect of my life melding together and being shaped from experience as a cake would be inflated in an oven. There are countless facets to who
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Gatsby" is a book full of symbolism. On a large‚ political scope the book itself is a symbol of the materialism of the twenties. Many of the symbols in the book are given their meaning by the characters - who are symbols in and of themselves. To make this last point‚ it is only necessary to look at Gatsby himself. Gatsby is‚ in a nutshell‚ the American Dream corrupted. He has worked hard to obtain everything he owns‚ often using illegal means to do so‚ but can enjoy none of it because he is so
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