Symbolism In The Selfish Giant

Register to read the introduction… It seems that a reoccurring theme in many walks of life is that cold signifies unhappiness. In real life situations the cold generally represents loneliness, because without the warmth of another, one can be considered to be alone. It also signifies death. When your heart stops beating, fresh blood isn’t being pumped and no activity is occurring in the body, thus causing the cold of the outside world to set in. Due to the lack of a beating heart, the cells in your body turn blue from lack of oxygen, and blue can definitely be a color reminiscent of something cold. There are so many ways we can take real world applications and intertwine them with that of the mechanics of this book’s motifs. But of the two stated the most relevant would obviously be that of loneliness. The giants actions of relinquishing the children of a place to play caused the already happiness of the place to abandon his garden, thus making him companionless. And when without another, the loneliness and cold start to set in just as it did in the Giant’s garden. The way by which the author portrayed these motifs, was definitely necessary to get his views across on an ever deeper level.
The story The Selfish Giant, was a compelling piece urging me to think about my actions for that they my lead me to a road that I don’t want to be a part of. In context his words though geared toward that of a child,