Black and Red the two colors of human existence, so simple, so tribal, yet significant to us all as they are burned into our bones from when we exist as only atoms to when we die as galaxies and they stretch beyond that to the lives our stars burn out into. While they seem so simplistic there are deeper meanings in these colors that run deeper than the blood in our veins.
Red shows our fatal flaw: passion. A word of seven letters just as the seven sins it destroys us. With so much ambition towards our greater passion we misjudge things, overlook others, and forget the simplicities of life. Perhaps this is why when I think about how the future is going to be painted my heart starts to clench and I remember all the what if’s that could’ve happened somehow. It goes like this. Passion is the simplest instinct us humans have, you, me, and anyone you’ve ever met has had passion towards something. Whether it be acting, singing, or whatever have you, it’s always there and with no doubt it will tear you apart. Don’t deny the fact, there is no honor in passion. We all end up the same, disease ridden with vibrating dreams bashing against the walls of our hearts, driving our brains up a wall. It’s true I’m sorry to say, we all end up mad in a way. Your passion drives you to forget that others exist and suddenly your brain is spinning the thought that you’ll make it and the white noise around you will fall. Maybe that’s true but what happens when your inferno burns out and you’re just a shell of what you wanted to be. Do you still have what it was you did? Or are you drifting in the black hole of society? Perhaps during your incubation of hibernation you’ll have discovered the meaning of our color black just as I had.
Black oh doesn’t it seem ...
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...one of the millions of stars that burn in me to make me glow so intensely that my body burns to the touch the heat of a million impressions. Yet skin regenerates itself and all of your impressions, those marks left by your trembling lips during the bewitching hours, they're gone. As I fear the thought they'll never be imitated by another or restored by yourself my lonely star that refuses to burn out.
So it is for you my dear star, that I paint my lips red. The blood from my heart stains my lips with the most sinful of colors, if only to show that you're still burning in me. My fingers are stained permanently black from your last touch. Good bye. It reeks, it's so dismal, but all I think about at night. Your hands lingering on mine seeping black ooze just screaming for the attention you so desired, and as I wished I could show you now you've moved to another galaxy.
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Where are the memories of our pasts held? In scrapbooks full of photographs, or perhaps written on the pages of a locked diary? Picture though, something as simple and ordinary as a closet full of clothes. Think about its contents, where they have been worn, what they have been through, the stories attached to each item. The nameless protagonist of Diane Schoemperlen’s short story Red Plaid Shirt does this as she recalls a snippet of her past life with each article of clothing she picks up. Red plaid shirt, blue sweatshirt, brown cashmere sweater, yellow evening gown, black leather jacket…each item has a tale of its very own, and when combined they reveal the full story of the main character’s life.
How far can you go to lose yourself? What distance are we willing to tred to dim the glow of your own starlight? In Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl several characters have vastly different personalities. Or do they? Is Leo Borlock really different from Hillary Kimble? Do they not both care for normality? For the attention of others? When Stargirl Caraway arrives, a butterfly engulfed by mist, the world shifted and grasped for an opportunity to hold onto something… divergent. An anomaly so far down their path, they could hardly reach it. So they grow to hate it, dead grass rising but never quite touching the soft delicacy of Stargirl’s petals. If something can’t be understood, it is not good enough to be loved. That’s how we’ve all been raised; to comprehend and to discover and to keep stretching out our arms to the answers when they just flow through the cracks of our normalcy like water. Society stones it until the mountain is just as low as the dirt itself, and no one has to be jealous anymore. No one has to wonder how they could have touched the docility of grey clouds. No one has to wonder what distance they went to not to be that sole splash of color in a world of white.
...teristics. In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, the author utilizes the color orange to represent hope that Pi survives his endeavor with a Bengal tiger at sea. Orange signifies life and ensures that Pi lives to tell his story. Throughout the course of events, the orange tiger aboard the lifeboat drives Pi to fight for his life. In contrast, the fading yellow color in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper steers the woman further into mental hysteria. Rather than leading to salvation, the aging yellow embodies her illness and leads to her ultimate demise. Whether a color provides positive or negative thoughts and emotions, any piece of literature remains incomplete without splashes of color throughout the text.
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Although colors are usually represented and used for the recollection of joyful experiences, Death uses the colors of the spectrum to enhance the experience of the Book Thief and as well as him own life too. In Death’s narration, his use of the colors illustrate the great ordeal of suffering and pain throughout the book’s setting. As an example Death says “The day was grey, the color of Europe. For me, the sky was the color of Jews” (Zusak, 349). This quote effectively describes Death’s use of the colors by relating it to the events taking place. The colors give perspective to the agony and painful hardships going on in the life of WWII. In a regular setting, colors are used to describe happy memories and any basic descriptions of a setting. Death says “Whatever the hour or color…” (Zusak, 5). By saying this quote, Death establishes the colors a...
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In Sunset Limited, Black conveys Kierkegaard’s philosophy through his own life and words. In the beginning of the play, Black and White argue over the meaning of life—the former loving it, the latter trying to end it. Early on, Black tries to identify with White’s suicidal argument by noting that “Suffering and human destiny are the same thing” (55). Of course, Black’s admittance does not mean he believes in White’s argument, but instead that he understands White’s pain. Likewise, Kierkegaard’s description of life is similar to Black’s reasoning. In his writing, Kierkegaard recounts both the painful way a person is brought into the world and then taken out of it, saying, “[…] and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.” But the undertone of both Black and Kierkegaard’s statements cannot go unquestioned, and White replies, “You’re not making any sense” (55). White fails to understand that everything is common sense for Black, who has not only suffered more than White could ever imagine, but also believes in a force outside White’s wildest dreams. Originally a convict, Black turns his life around after a near-death experience, believing God chose him of all people to talk to. He lives in hopes of delivering God’s message and love to those bereft of it, for what pain can someone experience if God is on the other side? Comparatively, Kierkegaard’s detailed analysis of despair calls the obvious solution faith alone. Somehow, Black evinces Kierkegaard’s belief through becoming a productive member of society. After believing to have heard the Savior in his sleep, Black leaves his former friends and refrains from various forms of pleasure so he can help those less fortunate than himself. I...
I saw her walk over to the dressing table. I watched her appear in the circular glass of the mirror looking at me now at the end of a back and forth of mathematical light. I watched her keep on looking at me with her great hot-coal eyes: looking at me while she opened the little box covered with pink mother of pearl. I saw her powder her nose. When she finished, she closed the box, stood up again, and walked over to the lamp once more, saying: "I'm afraid that someone is dreaming about this room and revealing my secrets." And over the flame she held the same long and tremulous hand that she had been warming before sitting down at the mirror. And she said: "You don't feel the cold." And I said to her: "Sometimes." And she said to me: "You must feel it now." And then I understood why I couldn't have been alone in the seat. It was the cold that had been giving me the certainty of my solitude. "Now I feel it," I said. "And it's strange because the night is quiet. Maybe the sheet fell off." She didn't answer. Again she began to move toward the mirror and I turned again in the chair, keeping my back to her.
Red: this color psychologically helps in getting rid of inactivity, laziness, a sense of permanent fatigue, and also stress. Moreover it gives a tendency to sleep for long periods of time which means it is generally a catalyst and stimulant for the body. On another case, it increases the heart rate, respiration rate, and the brain activity. And it helps also to cure the disease of impotence and frigidity.