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    joyful moments in a depressing world. Yellow signifies joy and happiness. "Yellow helps energize people and relieves depression" (Color Symbolism and Culture). Fitzgerald used this color to describe many of the characteristics of Gatsby’s parties. "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher" (Fitzgerald 40). Describing the music as "yellow" showed that the band was playing upbeat music

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    Scott Fitzgerald‚ used many colors such as gold‚ green‚ and white in his novel to make it more visual Gold in the novel represents old money and wealth. “With Jordan’s slender golden are resting in mine‚ we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.” Jordans are being golden means that she’s old money‚ while the girls dressed in yellow are new money. Gold means old money and yellow is the imitation of gold. In the book green means money‚ wealth‚ and hope. ““If it wasn’t for

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    one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 117). In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ the mockingbird symbolizes innocence and the destruction of it. Throughout the book‚ many characters are representations of the bird as they are innocents who have fallen in the hands of injustice. Boo Radley is a harmless man who was always

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    timetable. These resistance images are somehow similar to the ones represented in Al-Masabeh Al-Zurq‚ however‚ in the Arabic novel‚ they were against the French. Manec‚ then‚ symbolizes the resistant nature in humans and how they refuse to submit to their oppressors. In addition to that‚ Marie‚ a blind French girl in her teenage years‚ helps the French resistance as well. She does the little things like carrying the bread that has a secret message‚ or by speaking

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    goodness and purity illustrates a strong symbol throughout the novel. Pearl‚ the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale‚ is the strongest and most mystifying symbol in the novel. In "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne uses these symbols to give the reader an observation and a view on the way that the Puritan society is affected by sin. The title of the novel‚ "The Scarlet Letter"‚ is symbolism along with the many symbols

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    Macbeth: Blood I am going to prove that in the play Macbeth‚ a symbol of blood is portrayed often(and with different meanings)‚ and that it is a symbol that is developed until it is the dominating theme of the play towards the end of it. To begin with‚ I found the word "blood"‚ or different forms of it forty-two times (ironically‚ the word fear is used forty-two times)‚ with several other passages dealing with the symbol. Perhaps the best way to show how the symbol of blood changes

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    My ally is my Uncle George for many reasons. The main being that he is my role model because of what he has achieved in sports. What he has done is more than anything I have ever done. I want to be like him at football. He has always been someone I looked up to. My goal is to be like he was in highschool because of his talent in football. What he has achieved is beyond anything I have ever seen someone do. My dream is to be at his level of excellence and be on varsity next year. He is also my

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    or pleasant. F. Scott Fitzgerald does just that in one of the greatest pieces of literature out there‚ The Great Gatsby. He manages to capture a variety of different essences and takes us with the characters in the downward spiral that is The Great Gatsby. In physics‚ a color is a visible light with a specific wavelength. Black and white are not colors because they do not have specific wavelengths. Instead white light contains all wavelengths of visible light. White is generally used to represent

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    throughout this dynamic novel. Hawthorne’s use of symbolic objects in nature play a huge role in this novel. He uses these objects to bring creativity to the story. His use of symbolism makes the reader really think about these ordinary objects and what they mean in the novel. He uses a writing technique that takes these objects and totally changes their meaning. Hawthorne takes the reader to a whole other level as they think about these plain‚ boring objects and try to piece together what they mean. Hawthorne

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    Though what I found also is both symbols come from different origins. Swastika symbol came from Sanskrit‚ but the symbol itself is a Greek symbol originating back to 1871 when it was founded. In English though the symbol itself was first founded back in 1932 and

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