The Rose Garden

The bad, which was Chillingworth in the story was represented with the black flower, and the good, which is Hester and Pearl is portrayed with the wild rose bush. The author described the “... ugly edifice… in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of a civilized society, a prison,” (Hawthorne 35) to convey the characteristics of bad. Black in the context directly relates to the devil's name…

Universally accepted as symbols of beauty, flowers are often used to symbolize love. Although beautiful, they are of a delicate nature that can only survive temporarily in this world. Often people observe their magnificence in the seclusion of gardens, where they are rarely left to grow freely. Contained within flowers are manifold functional uses, but their purpose is confined to being observed for their beauty, much like what was expected of women. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a man…

The main character in the book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is Deborah Blau. If I were to go through Deborah's trash, I might find many uncanny things. In the beginning of the book Deborah attempts suicide, she cuts her wrists and enough blood spills to fill half a cup. I would think that this would be one of the many items in her trash can that have to do with her failed suicide attempts. In chapter two Joanne Greenberg wrote, “The half cup of blood on the bathroom floor had given all…

In William Faulker’s “A Rose for Emily” and Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” social class is the allegory. The protagonist in each, Emily Grierson and Laura Sheridan, were born into wealth and were aware of the social statues they possessed. Being part of the elite has advantages as well as disadvantages; financial security, unmerited respect, and privileges verse nativity, limitation of companions and high familial obligations. Social class dominates a large portion of their lives due…

As I opened the door to the abandoned, old, haunted house on my street, I started to think that maybe this wasn't such a good idea. I scolded myself for wanting to turn back, and hesitantly stepped inside to explore. My ombre hair and dark brown eyes made me practically camouflage in the tan-brown, wood-paneled foyer, except for my old grey hooded sweatshirt and comfortable red sweat pants. I was the average height for a 16 year old, maybe a little more scrawny and immature. I could feel the…

The red roses throughout American Beauty represents the desire for love and freedom. Even though red roses are a symbol of love and passion; in American Beauty we get to see that there is a lack of love and compassion for another. The burn ham family has forgotten what love feels like, all the family members are estranged from each other. But throughout American Beauty, we see red roses or the color red, and in those moments its when the character needs love the most. For example, the front yard…

novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, a young girl named Deborah is taken to a mental hospital for her schizophrenia by her parents. Deborah at the time is unaware she has a mental illness, she believes she was given a special power to enter into a different world, Yr. Throughout the novel, Deborah struggles to find what is real ad what is imaginary. She visits with doctors and other patients in the ward to help overcome her illness. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden offers the lesson of…

A single rose within a garden of daisies may be considered a weed. But that single rose can also contribute to the beauty of the whole garden. Just as the rose changed the daisy garden, humans have modified California’s superb garden, as John Muir called it, and while some may think that we have improved the garden, others would disagree. Much of California’s nature has become modified by humans to produce new forms involving agriculture, and urbanization as opposed to letting it grow naturally.…

to see my dad and when I walked into the room it was so quiet there was no noise. He had an American flag laid over the bottom of his casket. There were red poinsettias and white roses everywhere. I could smell the scent of the roses before I ever had walked in. To the right of the room was a glass table with white roses and a book to sign. On the left side of the room where…

especially through the symbols of roses and rosebushes. Hester Prynne, the main sinner, is represented by these roses bushes when she walks out of the jail and a rosebush is flourishing. Through the novel Pearl and Hester are both referred to as “a wild rose-bush” at some point (Hawthorne 46). Unlike her mother, Pearl is not a sinner, but merely a symbol of Hester’s sin. Pearl also is represented by the rosebush outside of the jail, and she is also represented by the roses that she desperately…