Even in the early 1900’s, symbolist painters from around the globe believed that “art should reflect an emotion or idea rather than represent the natural world in a realistic way” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Both about black segregation but in different time periods, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (written under the pseudonym Linda Brent) and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry are about very similar topics. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is all about a young black girl named Isabel, who is fighting to be free from the grasp of slavery and her abusive master. It takes place in in Edenton, North Carolina, where her Grandmother, who raised her like her own child, is housing her siblings and children.
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If an author states in their writing that a character or person is against a topic or ethical issues, it defeats the purpose of making the reader interested in the literature. By using symbols to convey points, it can still keep a reader interested in the story, like if a type of flavor was being added to a bland dish. In A Raisin in the Sun, the character Walter says, “(Straightening up from her and looking off) That’s it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. (Sadly, but gaining power) Man say: I got to take hold of this here world baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. (Passionately now) Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say - (In utter anguish as he brings his cold fists down on his thighs)- Your eggs are getting cold!” (Hansberry 33). This quote shows how Walter doesn’t want to take the average life of a black, and how he has huge ambitions and wants more out of life. The “eggs” represent the general life that society gives everybody, but Walter wants to rise above these expectations and be a successful person. Lorraine Hansberry never says that Walter doesn’t like the social expectations and the average life, but by dissecting the text, this information can be found. By using …show more content…
These three things, showing the reader unstated information, other ideas, and showing them the possible future of the story, all benefit the writing, and don’t take away from it, but add meaning to the story, which gets the reader thinking and overall makes the writing better. In multiple literary works, it can be seen that by using symbolism, it helped both of the authors get their point across and for their characters to get more depth added to their
If an author states in their writing that a character or person is against a topic or ethical issues, it defeats the purpose of making the reader interested in the literature. By using symbols to convey points, it can still keep a reader interested in the story, like if a type of flavor was being added to a bland dish. In A Raisin in the Sun, the character Walter says, “(Straightening up from her and looking off) That’s it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. (Sadly, but gaining power) Man say: I got to take hold of this here world baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. (Passionately now) Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say - (In utter anguish as he brings his cold fists down on his thighs)- Your eggs are getting cold!” (Hansberry 33). This quote shows how Walter doesn’t want to take the average life of a black, and how he has huge ambitions and wants more out of life. The “eggs” represent the general life that society gives everybody, but Walter wants to rise above these expectations and be a successful person. Lorraine Hansberry never says that Walter doesn’t like the social expectations and the average life, but by dissecting the text, this information can be found. By using …show more content…
These three things, showing the reader unstated information, other ideas, and showing them the possible future of the story, all benefit the writing, and don’t take away from it, but add meaning to the story, which gets the reader thinking and overall makes the writing better. In multiple literary works, it can be seen that by using symbolism, it helped both of the authors get their point across and for their characters to get more depth added to their