... which is relevant to modern racism in todays society, and how colour is relative to life and death in historical periods like Nazi Germany. In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, ... draws an interesting contrast in the way that it isn't life that's shown through colour but death. The symbolism of colors relates the novel to our society as our world is a colourful place, and by reinforcing the symbol throughout the novel Zusak has continually expressed humanity on a colour spectrum o...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... society consuming itself. This gives the persona of an inner discovery that all change will have consequences, and that the consequences of our materialistic society will ultimately be destruction of our world and ourselves. The understanding of the world we live in and ourselves is much dependent on how we chose to see ... the way our materialistic society as either, a good or bad thing, Gray doesn't see it as a good thing as he has evidently portrayed ... of changing his life around which can be perceived through the emotive language " the shiny, white-bruising beach, in mauve light,...

• Word Count: 1144
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... that i had my childhood in china, teenager life in Mexico and become an adult in U.S. Through the three experience i learn the importance of language. I born in China, Canton, I learned my town dialect that called taisanes, also I learned Cantonese from TV shows, Mandarin from 4 years of elementary school in china. With these dialects I could communicate with everyone in china, but I did not ... that the customers asked, I fixed the merchant when the customers come back with their broken merchant, but there are few times that people bring merchants from somewhere else and said our shop ...

• Word Count: 910
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate