Author's Note: My symbolism that I found was from a story called All Summer in a Day
Tragedy/ Storms/ Weather: Storms make people feel scared when thunder booms. Rain makes people feel depressed and lonely.
Example: “With the drum and gush of water, with the crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves.”(1)
Romance/Color- Some colors make people happy or sad but bright vivid colors make people feel bright in side.
Example: “Gold or yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world.” (1)
Tragedy/Irony: Weather – Lightning, thunder, storms make people scared or frightened.
Example: “It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical slide which did not move or tremor. The world ground to a standstill.”
Tragedy/Parts of house- Closets make people feel enclosed, claustrophobic and silent. Sometimes it even makes people feel alone inside.
Example: “Behind the closet door was only silence.”
Tragedy/Plants- Overgrown plants could remind people of fear.
Example: “They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus, which grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fresh-like weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring.”
Tragedy/Colors- The color of grey or ash reminds me of funerals and when people die they can burn the body to ash. That makes people sad.
Example: “It was the color of rubber and ash, from the many years without sun. It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon.”
