McCarthy does this on purpose, by creating this relentless, colorless landscape it enables his symbols of optimism to stand out. ... In the world the boy knows there is no use or need for such a concept. ... This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. ... The man and his boy find the old man as they are traveling. ... Not only was the Coke a symbol of the past and what used to be but then the boy selflessly shares some with his father. ...

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More than 130 years after the final shots of the War Between the States, the symbol of the Confederate Southern Cross is still a powerful topic throughout the South. ... In 1991, the NAACP passed a resolution that stated the Southern Cross was a racist symbol that reminded Blacks about slavery. ... By removing Confederate symbols, such as the flag from public view, aren't these groups denying America a part of Black history? ... I know the Southern Cross is a hurtful symbol to those in the Black community because of slavery and racism. ... The Good-Ole boy southern politicians used the So...

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When reading poem 1, I was left with the impression that the speaker was innocent, nave and a good-natured little boy. ... They would simply be replaced by another and possibly even younger boy. I believe that Blake uses the word lamb as a symbol of how these boys were sacrificed in their line of work. ... Blake is clever in his use of symbols and colour. ... Here the black coffins are a symbol of the chimneys, and being locked up in them suggests captivity - there was no way that they could escape their lives (until death). ...

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For example "Mother to Son- the mother says "So boy don't you turn back, don't set you down on the steps cause you find its kinder harder, don't you fall now-. ... In many of Langston Hughes poetry, nature serves as a strong symbol for triumphs and defeat of the soul. ... Nature serves as a symbol for the captivity and death of the soul. ... Nature becomes a symbol for the burden of the anguish of the soul. ... In the above mentioned works, images of nature serves as a symbol of the freedom of the soul, yet serving as a symbol for the burden of achieving that freedom, and th...

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When Jack Robins sang in the bar as a young boy, he began a cinematic revolution. ... His wearing of a blackface in this song was also a symbol or metaphor for being American. ... A powerful scene is when Mary enters the room and Jack is applying the black face paint, he is clearly distraught and conflicted by his Jewish culture and his career. ... In the final song of the play, "Mammy," blackface is used again as a symbol. ... So, as his father's ghost appears behind him in the synagogue it is a symbol of acceptance. ...

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When Aschenbach arrives in Venice, he catches a ride to the dock in a black gondola. The color of the gondola is an obvious symbol for the impending death foretold in the title. ... The girls are very stiff and plain, but the boy is dressed in bright blue. The boy's beauty and brightness stand in sharp contrast to his sister's stark plainness. Aschenbach finds the boy incredibly beautiful and he cannot help but stare at him. ...

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The black veil is a symbol for the guilt he feels for his sins and that all men hide behind their sin. ... When Poe was a young boy, his father abandoned him and his family. ... In "The Minister's Black Veil", Father Hooper is isolated from the congregation because of his black veil that he hides behind. ... The veil is a symbol for the secret sin that all people carry within themselves. ... Another symbol is the Puritan interest in the concept of "sin". ...

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When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... Rock and Roll was an outlet, a symbol of the change. Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. The same year Rebel without a Cause came out, Rosa Parks was dragged from the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and three black students were let into UC Chapel Hill, by the rulings of a federal court judge, by nineteen fifty six, the pop song "My Prayer" sung by the black ba...

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This symbol is significant, and twenty-eight ap! ... Howard and Buglar "[ran] away by the time they were thirteen years old" (3), the traditional age of manhood in many cultures, the age at which a Jewish boy becomes a Bar Mitzvah and a medieval boy would leave home for an apprenticeship. ... Eggs are a fertility symbol. ... The trinity is a very sacred symbol. ... Again the inversion is present, male to female, white to black. ...

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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. ... Pecola's constant desire for blue eyes is an indication that images of white perfection and beauty are important to her because she feels that it she possesses one symbol of whiteness she will never again be subjected to the harsh realities of discrimination. ... One afternoon while Pecola is playing in the playground a boy named Junior invites her into his house. ... ...

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Within this subculture the leather jacket was a symbol. ... An important symbol, although not necessary, to rockers was that of a motorcycle, as opposed to mods. ... They were incredibly interested in the American Jazz scene predominant of Black America and it was through this music that Mods managed to differentiate themselves from the mainstream culture. ... They wore black leather and studs, had anti-authority beliefs and projected an easy rider nomadic romanticism. The rockers lived for the present, with a scruffy, masculine, "bad boy" image. ...

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King grew up in a two-story Victorian house located in "Sweet Auburn," the centre of black Atlanta. ... It was the time of segregation of blacks and whites. ... He was separated from one of his only friends, a young white boy whose parents despised blacks But this did not make King grow hostile. ... While King was trying to spread the message of nonviolent action and love for social change, Malcom X's black nationalism and self-defence ideas related more with urban blacks. ... To this day King remains a controversial symbol of the struggle for equality. ...

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Faulkner places heavy emphasis on the sensational details that the boy feels. ... His immediate reaction to the sight of the house is to compare it to a symbol of justice, the courthouse. ... He forces his boy to submit to the pull of blood by making him his accomplice. ... The terrifying images of rigidity and blackness are gone. The boy listens to his father telling a story and we see him divide the food with his two sons. ...

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Throughout the book, Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison, the image of flight is a major symbol. ... Before his death, he was one of the Seven Days, the small group of men devoted to keeping the balance of blacks and whites equal, which is one of the causes of his desire for an escape from life. As he says in his note, he had become one of the Seven Days for love of black people, not for any hate of whites. While the first image does not seem consistent with the images following it, this first use of flight opens the rest of the story to the symbol. ... Instead, the boy had been dropped at a hou...

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The inadequate lives of Crooks, Curley's wife, and Candy serve as a symbol of loneliness wherein they each have their own distinct aspect. ... Crooks, who is the only black man living by himself on the ranch doesn't expect Lennie and Candy to come into his room. ... He is the only black man in this story who isn't treated equally as other workers. ... "Come boy. Come on, boy, He won't even feel it....

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It is a simple story, in which there are only two main characters the old man and the boy. ... His conversation with the boy shows his strong will. ... At night, he "dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long garden benches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountain." ... Hopefully, the old man sails silently on the black sea. ...

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The young boy and Rebecca meet at a cottage, where there is a group of eight or nine people. ... She is a Jewish girl from the exotic Bronx and, to the boy, this "vast borough seems a Cythera." ... The boy thinks of The Bronx as a Cythera, since it can "house such fantastic creatures as Rebecca. ... This foreshadows what the love relationship between the boy and Rebecca is destined to go through. ... For instance, one day the boy buys Rebecca a ring, which to him implies an "innocent symbol that tortures his blood. ...

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Two boys stormed the school with guns blazing and bombs exploding, wearing long black trench coats. ... "They shot a black kid. ... One student recounted the killers mocking Isaiah Shoels' (the African American boy who was shot) murder, saying that the brains that spilled out were awesome (Obmascik 2a). ... Each boy showed similar signs of hatred. ... To make a comment " look at the black kid's brain falling out - then saying "awesome- is racist. ...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. ... An example of this is in The Wizard of Oz, when the movie goes from black and white to color, showing a visual symbolic death. ... The novel shows his dilemma through the glass motif, the reoccurring presence of glass, glass being the symbol through which one stops watching through and experiences. ... Children have an innocent perception of the world around them, but as adults we realize t...

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He was neither entirely black nor white; his mother told him to not associate with outsiders. ... He thinks about this a bit more and assumes that maybe God likes black people better, hence having his mother cry at Church. He then asks whether God was black or white. ... The bicycle is a symbol, representing Ruth McBride's outlet of being able to cope with her second husband's death by having it become an escape from reality, and yet negotiating what her reality has become as well. ... During this time, he felt the pain of isolation so acutely that he would get angry at 'the bo...

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The opening scenes of the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, helped introduce me to one of the main themes of the movie; that the realization of one boy's dream will be barred by three different hurdles on the way to achieving his goals. ... This is shown through the symbol of Billy's boxing gloves, which belonged to his grandfather. ... The camera tracks him as he dances around the ring, and the screen cuts to black when he is knocked out with one punch. ... In this world of miners who do physical, rough work, a boy doing ballet is a ridiculous idea. ...

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In "The Minister's Black Veil," the character achieves the most success of all. In the story, he is adamant about wearing the black veil over his face. ... " When man loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! ... on every visage a Black Veil!" ... Hooper in "The Minister's Black Veil." ...

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As a result of this exposure to the white world's hostility and aggression towards blacks, most of Wright's books portray both racial discrimination and the black response to that injustice; such as Black Boy and Native Son. ... At the same time, blacks are charged higher rents than whites, which is ridiculous. ... He is infuriated by both blacks and whites; blacks for their passive responses to their treatment by whites, and whites for making him feel self-conscious and ashamed. ... I see Bigger as a symbol. He represents one rebellious black response to a racist society. ...

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Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basualto, more commonly known as Pablo Neruda, began his widely renowned career in poetry as a young boy. ... Neruda loved the sea, and it became one of the most important symbols in his poetry. ... Oh the black cross of a ship. ... The "black cross of a ship," according to WikiAnswers.com, means that the place or thing is haunted by some spirit. ... The black cross of a ship in this poem symbolizes the spirit of Pablo Neruda's wife as it is seen and he feels alone without her. ...

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Huck and Jim have a friendship, which is transformed through time and trust, but always has the reminder that one is white and the other is black. ... Huck is a strong-willed, free-spirited individual who attempts to portray himself as a bad boy, but he often finds himself doing just the opposite. ... The raft that they travel on becomes a symbol of brotherhood and equality. ... As a result, Huck feels bad and apologizes to Jim, which shows that Huck now has respect for him, even though he is black. ... Though he doesn't make it clear this truth to himself, he essentially trades his f...

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