The White Umbrella Essay

“The White Umbrella” by Gish Jen tells a story of a young Chinese girl who so stubbornly tries to mask the truth because her mother works and it is against her tradition. The theme of the story is that to some people, tradition is more important than extra things like a second income. The author displays this through the setting, plot, and the main character. In this story one way the author conveys the theme is through the setting. She does this by describing the setting. One example is she has one the of only Chinese families in town and it is against their tradition for her mother to work. Another example is the rainstorm in the story because the author uses it to show that the girl is holding on the her tradition of the mother not working…

Through the juxtaposition of two closely-related but highly contrasting characters in a written work, writers can indirectly express an essential message for readers to ponder about throughout the work. In Gish Jen’s “The White Umbrella,” this is noted by the descriptions of how Mona and the narrator communicate, act, and think. As the two Chinese-American sisters share the same background, the way each girl feels about her identity strongly differs from the other. On a personal level, the two…

These different backgrounds can lead to a lot of confusion for people who do not have the mind capacity or interest to know the characters which will help them to understand certain parts of the story. Short stories have one to two characters without long backgrounds that need to be known in order to understand the story. For example “The White Umbrella” has two important main characters to know and a few others that add to the storyline but have no real importance. Similar to “The White…

In the study, college students in the southern part of the United States were shown a color on a computer screen and asked to give their emotional response to each color. The results found that principal hues (e.g., red, blue, green, etc.) were rated 80% positively. The results also showed that achromatic colors (e.g., white, black, and grey) were rated positively only 29.2% of the time. Green was the most positively rated color and participants associated green with nature and soothing…

Fitzgerald associates Daisy with the color white, but to wear white is to be “an absolute little dream” (Schneider 2). Nick discovers white is a corrupt mixture of dream and reality (Schneider 3). To Gatsby, white is not pure, but it is inevitably stained by money. Daisy is a white flower with a golden center. In The Great Gatsby gold, along with silver symbolizes the dream and the reality. When Nick first sees Daisy, he notes they are “like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses…”…

to keep his promise. If he would have left earlier would have had a broader choice of stalls to look for something. In “Fern Hill,” Thomas uses color to evoke certain feelings; metaphors such as “lamb white days,” “green and carefree,” and “Golden in the heydays of his eyes” are sprinkled throughout (lines 46, 10, 5). How is color used in this poem? In “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas he uses colors for different meanings like in line 15 where it reads, “And in green and golden I was huntsman and…

Most of these shapes are formed with the use of shifts in color and lines. For example, Sophia’s white hair is formed by the use of a shift from the black background and her darker checkered body. Consequently. both lines and shift in color are implied at the same time as it creates shapes in the artwork. In this artwork, the light source is not seen. On the other hand, the light source is placed in the left of the artwork. This is presented when Minter uses the black Ben-Day dots overlaying…

color “white” in both Sonnet 12 and 99 represents one of Shakespeare’s most prominent themes: the inevitable concept of time, in Sonnet 12, the narrator, reflects that the only defense against Time’s scythe is having children (leaving behind a legacy), while in Sonnet 99, the narrator condemns four different types of flowers for stealing attributes of his beloved (the Lilies stole the whiteness of his beloved’s hand, for example). In Sonnet 12, the narrator uses the color “white” to represent…

1). This shows us the general acknowledgement for golds association with riches. Gold can be seen as a very influential color in The Great Gatsby, because of the multitude of rich characters within the story. Gold is one of the most symbolic colors used in The Great Gatsby. Another symbolic color in The Great Gatsby is the color white. Throughout history, the color white has been used as a symbol of purity and good morals. According to Huber, “White stands for morally unblemished,…

The painting shows the Virgin and a child with blue glass background and a white light over them. This painting is made out of casein which is a protein from cheese and milk, which is popular in Italian artwork. Sister Mercedes title of the painting has vivid understanding on what the artwork is trying to express. This painting Madonna and child Blue has a very vivid focal point which is the light that starts out dull and brightens up as it reaches Child Blue. That white light draws your…