Symbol

understand the story. There are three different structuralist terms emphasized while reading the story: sign, code, and symbol. A sign, in a literary sense, is a thing that makes you think of something else without an obvious connection between the sign and object. Codes are a set of ideas, rules, letters, numbers, symbols, etc., that are used to represent another thing. A symbol is something regarded as representing something else. Myop, a young girl, is the main character in the story.…

and the purpose has long been forgotten.” (Shields 7) Although The Lottery was a horrific tradition no one wanted to speak up to try to end it, because they were scared of what the outcome might be. The symbols help the reader interpret the short story by understanding the significance of the symbols. The black box determined life or death and the stones symbolizes power and…

looks like a leader. “You’re chief. You tell em’ off.” (51) In society, that is how almost all of us act. As long as a leader looks as though he is strong, intelligent, or “knows the way,” they will be elected as leader. Piggy’s death is also a huge symbol in society. As Jack and his tribe finally start to take over the island, Piggy is really only the last source of intelligence and Jack has Roger kill it. Piggy symbolizes logic or reasoning and how fast savagery can really take over anything…

In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, villagers of a small town gather together on a beautiful day for the annual town lottery. This lottery requires that all the members of the community draw sheets of paper to determine a “winner”. The person who pulls the card with the black dot is the “winner”. The winner of this lottery ends up being stoned to death by the entire community due to an ancient ritual that says their crops will grow better when someone gets stoned (human sacrifice)…

Throughout the play, Tom has been wanting to escape from home and be away from the family. Laura is a shy girl, and her mother, Amanda, has been seeking for a gentleman caller for her, but doesn’t work because she’s fragile like glass. Because each symbol in the story shows what they represent, it includes the feelings and their actions. Furthermore, the glass menagerie symbolizes Laura as a transparent glass. When light is shined on the glass,…

Symbolism is a language or form of communication used to convey, or carry the meaning through the use of symbols. Symbolism can also be an object, person, or a situation, that has another meaning rather than its actual meaning. For example, the object a (chain) can symbolize the coming together of things. Maybe a very a simple thing such as the color red can symbolize other meanings such as blood, passion, and even maybe danger. In this short story by The lottery is about a village that…

faith can impact a person negatively or positively. In both stories, the readers learn how Goodman Brown, a character from “Young Goodman Brown,” and Ronnie and Alexis from “Answers,” handle the loss of trust and innocence; the stories provide unique symbols such as the woods and Job to reveal their sense of loss. In “Young Goodman Brown” and “Answers” the characters undergo the loss of trust and faith in their relationships, but they both persevere through…

sight failing, because in this poem, the fly is most likely a blind spot in the narrator’s vision (Hutto). Emily also writes about hearing a buzz and the windows failing. These could also be metaphoric symbols of waning strength in the narrator’s senses (Hutto). The silence in the room is a symbol for eminent death that all of the people in the room are aware of and are waiting on (Ruby 141). She writes about the eyes around the narrator, meaning the people who are mourning the one they are…

she compares her love to her lovers’ tattoos. Even though she is scared of not being permanent in his life, she lets us know how she will continue to try, but try in “darkness.” Today I will show you the significance of this poem by interpreting symbols, and show you how this woman is in love with her partner, but may be confused about the love she…

By his clever incorporation of the setting, symbols, and irony, London was able to send hidden messages to the reader about how one must be careful to not be too prideful or foolish and to rely on instinct for survival. The suspenseful story urges the reader to consider his or her own mortality by…