One of the chapters that I picked to write about was Chapter 10, “It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow”. This chapter truly helped me to understand how weather can affect the plot of the story as well as the mood or tone. While I was reading this chapter I originally thought it was just going to talk about different types of books that incorporate different kinds of weather. While this chapter walked you through why the author included details about the weather everything started to come together. I realized that the weather of a story has a lot more to do with the plot then you would think. In the text it states, “Weather is never just weather. It’s never just rain. And that goes for snow, sun…” (Page 1). This quote immediately started to get …show more content…
When the author started to describe this to the readers it made a lot of sense to me. I was realizing that the author was using rain as a plot device. For example in paragraph seven the author referred to the story “The Three Strangers” as the rain brought these three men together. The text states, “...forcing them to seek shelter where they can…” (Page 1). In this story the rain is being used to help bring these three strangers together, which will now change the whole plot of the story. Something that did not make much sense to me was that rain was atmospheric. I understood that rain came from the atmosphere but how does it have anything to do with literature? When the author starts to explain how rain is atmospheric his sentence immediately following says, “Rain can be more mysterious, murkier, more isolating than most other weather conditions.” (Page 2). This piece of text evidence did not help me to connect or understand how the rain was using atmospherics in …show more content…
This chapter allowed me to truly understand where symbols come from and it taught me how to truly identify them. When I began to read this chapter I realized that symbols can mean different things for different people. The way you interpret symbols will all depend on what they stand for or represent to you. This chapter also taught me that an allegory is when “things stand for other things on a one-for-one basis.” (Page 1). This chapter also helped me to realize that a word can have multiple symbols if it is used in different context. Overall, this chapter helped me to realize that symbols are based on the contex, your imagination or your feelings, and your interpretations. As I continued to read throughout the chapter I felt that the book “A Passage to India” was a prime example of hidden symbol and the author’s ideas came together to help make hidden symbols make more sense. For example, the book “A Passage to India” is about a a women who accuses a man with assault in a cave. In this case the hidden symbol is the cave. The cave symbolizes a few things, for one it symbolizes our conscious or our thoughts and it symbolizes fear as well as our past. In the text it states, “Adela notices that all sound is reduced to a hollow booming noise, so that a voice or a footfall or the striking or a match..she suddenly becomes alarmed,believing that, well, something is going on.” (Page 1). This piece of
Throughout the entire chapter, Morrison uses the rain as irony to depict the nature of loss and renewal through Paul ‘s experiences while in Alfred Georgia. At Sweet Home, Paul D
He speaks of how a sunny day sets the tone for a happy story, and how rain can set up for times for confrontation, or anger. However, in The Kite Runner, there is not a lot of rain, and with it being in Afghanistan, it is assumed to be sunny, even when it is not mentioned. However, the weather is specifically mentioned when it snows. Amir speaks of snow and says, “Snow is clean, stark, severe, warm (and insulating blanket, paradoxically), inhospitable, inviting, playful, suffocating, filthy” (Foster 80). Hosseini plays off societies preconceived notions and attitudes towards weather and the tone associated with it in his book. In his naivety, Amir thinks of the snow like most children, with excitement and happiness. It’s “inviting” and playful”, as Foster said before. Amir describes his love for the winter, “I loved wintertime in Kabul. I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way fresh snow crunched under my back rubber book” (Hosseini 49). The snow was fresh and clean, just like is conscious at the time. This is when he’s naive, before the rape, before he feels all of the pressure from his father. Later, when he feels the pressure from his father, the snow feels more “suffocating”. “Snow blanketed every rooftop and weighed on the branched of the stunted mulberry trees that lined our streets” (Hosseini 60). Then, immediately after the rape,
...e of the meanings to be determined by the reader, but clearly conveys the meaning behind others. Such variety provides something or someone for any reader to relate to. Symbolism, hidden or obvious, serves to connect the reader with the characters of “The Things They Carried” and follow their development with interest and ease. In many cases, symbols answer the question which the entire story is based upon, why the men carry the things they do.
Symbolism is commonly used by authors that make short stories. Guin is a prime example of how much symbolism is used in short stories such as “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “Sur.” In both of these stories Guin uses symbolism to show hidden meanings and ideas. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” there is a perfect Utopian city, yet in this perfect city there is a child locked in a broom closet and it is never let out. A few people leave the city when they find out about the child, but most people stay. Furthermore, in “Sur” there is a group of girls that travel to the South Pole and reach it before anyone else, yet they leave no sign or marker at the South Pole. Guin’s stories are very farfetched and use many symbols. Both “Sur” and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” have many symbols such as colors, characters, objects, and weather. The four types of symbols that Guin uses help the readers understand the themes in her short stories. Although her stories are farfetched, they need symbolism in them or the reader would not understand the theme; therefore the symbols make Guin’s stories much more enjoyable.
A symbol is an object used to stand for something else. Symbolism has a hidden meaning lying within it; these meanings unite to form a more detailed theme. Symbolism is widely used in The Scarlet Letter to help the reader better understand the deep meanings Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays throughout his novel. He shows that sin, known or unknown to the community, isolates a person from their community and from God. Hawthorne also shows this by symbols in nature around the town, natural symbols in the heavens, and nature in the forest.
In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë uses the literary symbol of rainfall to display the suffering of her characters as well as their transformation as time goes on. Because Jane Eyre serves as the main character, Brontë’s use of rain mirrors Jane’s actions more than that of her other characters. Nonetheless, rain still plays a role as an important symbol in relation to the treatment of Jane by additional characters such as Rochester.
Right after the line, “final uneasiness.” (16) the poem’s intended audience changes. The audience shifts from lovers and their experience with love to a more specific person/intended individual love to him. This is important to understand because it further demonstrates the emotions the speaker has. After the shift, the speaker says “Love, if you love me,/….Be for me, like rain,” (17-19). In this he is demanding that if someone wants to love him or be with him they need to be like rain. The image of rain falling outside is something simple and beautiful. Rain, to some people can be a calming sensation to feel on their cheeks. It is interesting how rain is used in a positive light to describe love because rain is not something one would typically assimilate to love. Rain is beautiful, like love, but to compare the two to illustrate a meaning is thought-provoking. Why would the speaker use rain to describe love? Possibly because it is beautiful like love and has characteristics one may desire in love? This may be true, but conversely it can be assumed that love is difficult to comprehend and that through the use of something out of the ordinary maybe some understanding of the abstract emotion can be facilitated. At the end of the poem the speaker leaves his intended audience with the final phrase of “Be wet/ with a decent happiness.” (23-24). This final phrase is significant because it tells the audience and those who desire
Emily Bronte uses intense storms to symbolise the lack of control of characters. ‘Bleak hilltop the earth was very hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb’ (5) Mr Lockwood assumes that he will be able to travel in the storm; he is stopped as the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights are aware that forces such as storms are difficult to
...o be correct. Hemingway uses rain as a sign of death, sadness or to give one of his characters the state of being afraid. The despair brought by rain, Frederic says „ good-bye to [Catherine], and then „[leaves] the hospital and walk[s] back to the hotel in the rain". The rain described as he walks home represents again a cleansing in which Tenente will be forced to start a whole new life now.
Although the title of the poem gives a positive feeling, the opening line Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days" gives the effect of a monotonous image and depressing persistance. He begins to sense weather by his skin" portrays nature and the sense of a survivor. The animal-like image continues for the rest of the first section and the rest of the second section. movement of that animal continues as the animal goes "uprooting" which gives the sense of nature being destructive. Heaney may have included this deliberately to show that nature is not as angelic as people may think.
A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning. Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot. (2009 Open-Ended Question for AP English Literature and Composition).
Rain becomes a symbol to the reality of war and the overarching theme of death and misfortune. The
While rain suggests sadness, it also brings clarity and a sense of rejuvenation. It brings new beginnings because, although the relationship is ending, the water cleanses this woman and clears the metaphorical smoke from her eyes. Although this woman cannot speak her mind and express what she is feeling, her surroundings do it for
Then this isolation is accentuated because of the weather, it is raining. The rain is part responsible for the fact that they have to stay in their room. Nevertheless, the rain has a symbolic meaning together with the description of the public garden. It represents as suggests the critic