The symbols of insignificance and weakness represent Crooks. These qualities are displayed in his confrontation with Curley's wife in his own room. ... (Steinbeck, 78) Yes, Candy is viewed as a nobody. Lenny is another character viewed as a "nobody" in the novel. ... (Steinbeck, 78) That is how Lenny is viewed by all. ...
The story has many symbols throughout that relate to the moral in many different ways. ... At first the boys are ushered into a room where a nude woman is dancing. ... It also represents the struggle that blacks endured at the time to be accepted as equals with the nations white population, as the country was evolving with integration. ... As the white men viewed the battle they became consumed by the fighting and yelled cruel things and became excited. ... The rug is another important symbol in the story. ...
Pecola's individuality is her ugliness, more important though, Pecola believes the only way for her individuality to be possessed by beauty is for her to become white, or own a symbol of whiteness-like blue eyes. ... For instance, one day Pecola enters a candy store to purchase some Mary Jane candies and the storeowner does not look at her because he feels she is nothing to see: Somewhere between retina and object, between vision and view, his eyes [drew] back, hesitate, and hover. ... When Geraldine enters her house anddiscovers a shrieking son, a frying feline on the radiator, and an ...
- Gus looked around the room without moving his head, just rolling his eyes in a mute appeal for help. ... It is obvious to me that Wright expresses himself through Max and that Max's arguments in the court room are those of the Communist Party of Wright's time. ... He whacked at the bone with his knife. ... The passage above is extremely descriptive, however this style of writing suits this novel told from the point of view of an uneducated youth, driven by overpowering feelings of fear, shame, and hate. ... I see Bigger as a symbol. ...
In this way the slave ship became the symbol of the community of a "lost people" and it contrasted the phenomenon of dispersion that characterized the Diasporic relations. ... Men, women and children were crammed into every available space, denied adequate room, food or breathing space. ... The heat of these horrid places was so great and the odour so offensive that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there been room. ... Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to ...
In order to save her son Chambers from growing up to become a slave, she switches him with Tom who looks just like Chambers. ... Pettit gives a good overview on Mark Twain's life and his views on slavery. ... "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson- is introduced by a description of a peaceful, calm town seemingly harmless and full of harmony: "In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one- and two-storey frame dwellings whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose-vines, honeysuckles, and morning-glories When there was room on the led...
