Understanding Traffic Lights: History and Symbolism

C. Symbol of Traffic Light

When Hazel and her mother get in the car to the church for attending the Support Group of Cancer, this sign occurs. Right before the intersection, the traffic light shows the light of green (hanging above) and red light for pedestrian (on the sidewalk) were on.

The traffic light was first created to controll the flow of horses because horse was the vehicle in that time. The three colours were chosen to regulate the flow. They are red, yellow and green. These colours were adopted first though from a system used by railroad industry. The meaning of the red colour is used for stopping the vehicles to prevent the crash or accident. The yellow colour used to inform the vehicle users to be aware and to prepare to stop.

Icon of Anne Frank Portrait

Other icon that could be found in the movie entitled The Fault in Our Stars is Anne Frank Portrait in Anne Frank House. It is located in Amsterdam as part of a scene that Hazel and Gus were invited by Lidewij to sightseeing around the city and she chose Anne Frank House. Inside the building, there are some portraits of Frank’s family on the wall. One of them is Anne’s portrait.

The Anne Frank House is based on the story that was taken from Anne’s diary. The history said when she got a small note book as her birthday present from her father, she used it as a diary to write over her feeling since Nazi ran the government in Germany. Frank family one of around thousand families who left from German because of the economic crisis and they are a German Jew. After Nazi came to Amsterdam, where Frank’s family lived for about 7 years, they lived in the secret apartment behind the books shelf. However, they were finally caught by the Nazi’s because someone had told the secret place. Otto Frank was the only family member who saved. Frank, her mother and her sister, Mo were sent to a concentrate compound. In the compound, Frank and her sister were seperated with their mother. Both of them died because of