Symbols have more than one meaning than what appears to be the what is going on.. Symbols in this story are contradictory. ... This represented how everyone can look at him and tell that he is a black person and that is all they will see. The message read, "Keep This Nigger Boy Running" (324). This means that his whole life people would look at him as a black person. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I think O"Connor uses Joy-Hulga's heart trouble and wooden leg as a symbol. ... For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School