... anything at all for being there, therefore enslaving them against their wishes. Also a few times throughout the piece it mentions objects that they call "the black gallows." When I first read that it seemed something to be fearful of. The gallows were what the SS soldiers used to execute or hang their so called prisoners, or as I see them, slaves. Referring to them ... as "black," holds a significant purpose of possibly being used for a dark purpose. And that is exactly what it struck me as, not to mention that is what it was used for. The black gallows were used to put innocent people ...

• Word Count: 1023
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... man, and the damage done by apartheid and alcoholism. The play takes place on the southeast cost of South Africa, 1950, in Hally's parents' restaurant. This is where two black servants, Sam and Willie, work for the white family. Sam and Willie have been a part of Hally's upbringing and are close friends. Hally has educated Sam with the knowledge acquired from school textbooks ... for Hally. The question would be, could Sam's influence outweigh the negative environment, shaping the confused boy? There are symbols in the play that illustrate the stimuli contributing to the answer. In 'Mas...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... man, and the damage done by apartheid and alcoholism. The play takes place on the southeast cost of South Africa, 1950, in Hally's parents' restaurant. This is where two black servants, Sam and Willie, work for the white family. Sam and Willie have been a part of Hally's upbringing and are close friends. Hally has educated Sam with the knowledge acquired from school textbooks ... for Hally. The question would be, could Sam's influence outweigh the negative environment, shaping the confused boy? There are symbols in the play that illustrate the stimuli contributing to the answer. In 'Mas...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... that his mother died when he was a young child and at that same time, he stated that "his father sold me". Saying that the boy "cried weep, weep, weep" instead of saying "sweep" implies that he was too young to talk or work. How count this be? Children were sold in London at an early age ... little Tom Dacre had one night. Symbolism means the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. Tom dreamed heavily in the second third and fourth stanzas to depict what Blake was trying to symbolize from the chimney sweepers. It started with the dream that thousands of sweepers were "locked up ...

• Word Count: 803
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the obstacles and evils found in any one person's journey through a lifetime. It isn't difficult to find several examples of symbolism in "A Worn Path."" The author, Eudora Welty, uses many, and most of them are nature symbols. The first one that becomes apparent to the reader is the main character's name, "Phoenix Jackson- (105). A phoenix is a mythical bird that rises from the ashes ... on previous treks to Natchez (106). "A pleasure I don't see no two-headed snake coming around that tree, where it come once- (107). Snakes, of course, are one of the most widely used symbols for evil, ...

• Word Count: 727
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School