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Animal Farm And The Green Mile By Stephen King

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For tenth grade Honors English we had to read Animal Farm by George Orwell, and The Green Mile by Stephen King. We then had to choose one literary device and discus how both authors used it in their books. I chose symbolism because it leaves the reader with a new way of thinking about communism and the death row, it adds more depth to the story, and it makes a connection with two different times in history. Webster Dictionary defends symbolism as 1) representation by symbols, 2) a system of symbols, and 3) symbolic meaning. Symbolism plays an important role in both Animal farm and The Green Mile.
In 1943, George Orwell could not get his book published because the publishers noticed that the feuding pigs Snowball and Napoleon were in fact Trotsky …show more content…

You have to look deeper than you do in Animal Farm. One examples of looking deeper to find symbolism is when Paul and Brutal whet to look for Mr. Jingles. They were going to kill him if he was chewing holes in the padded walls, and they would feel no remorse for it because they thought that “Killing rats was what the states paid us for, after all.”(King 62). It seems that the prison guards viewed the prisoners as rats, but one couldn’t be sure until Percy said “we don’t need mice in a cell block, we get enough vermin in here already without adding mice.”(King 88). It is now certain that the prison guards view the prisoners as rats. It took a little bit of thinking to realize that the guards viewed the prisoners that way. The above quote is symbolizing …show more content…

Jingles when he was running to get the spool that Eduard Delacroix (which is one of the inmates) had thrown. He was almost dead, but then John Coffey picked him up and “Mr. Jingles tail was no longer dying of pendulum it was snapping briskly from side to side, like a cat in a bird catching mood. And then, from inside Coffey’s append hands, came a perfectly familiar squeak.” (King 265). John Coffey healed a mouse that had been stomped on by Percy; he also healed Paul's UTI. “Helped, he said. I helped it didn’t I?”(King 185). He also healed Melly of her brain tumor “John Coffey pulled away from her, and I saw that her face had smoothed out.” (King 406). John Coffey has the powers to heal the sick the stuffing and the dying. John Coffey is symbolizing a saint. He was sent by God to help people and animals that needed his help. Coffey head both Paul and Mr. Jingles and consequently both of them lived longer than they normally would have. “I may have a few years more years, men still live longer than mice, I guess, but Mr. Jingles’ time is just about up.”(King 523). A normal rat is supposed to live for about two to three years, but when Mr. Jingles died he was about 65 years old, and Paul was over 104 years old. Stephen King uses symbolism in his book The Green Mile to create a new way of thinking about the death row for the reader.
Symbolism plays an important Part both in Animal Farm by George Orwell, And The Green Mile

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