Red Hunting Hat Symbolism Essay

a cigarette box to be my shape of the poster, it is because I realized Holden always smokes in the story. I feel that cigarettes can help him express his feeling. It might not resolve his problems but at least it might make him feel relaxing and calm his emotion. On the cigarette box, I draw some ducks and a red hunting hat in the middle. The red hunting hat symbolizes his uniqueness and individuality. He is an outsider and tries to live differently from the phony people around him. He gets annoyed by all the phoniness, however, he doesn’t use to wear it around the people he knows. The ducks that I draw around the red hunting hat symbolizes Holden’s curiosity to youth, and the willingness to encounter the mysterious world. Holden is terrific …show more content…
I also put two dream catchers on each side, they represent Holden tries hard to make his dream comes true. Holden wants to catch children from falling into adulthood, and he has encountered a lot. However, he is changing at the end and starts to understand that growing up is not the worst thing in the world and life is just like this. The only thing that he can do is to accept it. Also, the carousel behind the red hunting hat symbolises HOlden’s desire of childhood. He feels so happy when Phoebe keep going around and around on the carousel. In my opinion, I think he is happy because how Phoebe is riding the carousel represents she still has so many year to enjoy her childhood and is safe on the carousel. Once fell down from the carousel means falling into adulthood from childhood also. So it is why Holden is glad that Phoebe is still riding on the carousel safely and delightedly. The color I use in the poster to describe Holden is purple and grey. I think dark colors can represent HOlden’s negativeness and depression. Holden is being so negative throughout the book, no matter what he sees or encounters, he usually treats the whole situation