Red In Hal Borland's When The Legends Die

Colour is a symbolic material in various sections of the film, as it functions as connecting visual and thematic threads which allude to connotations of danger, love, passion shaping her as a dynamic, charismatic character. Lola's fiery red hair highlights her speed, as she nearly runs through the entire movie. There are scenes where Lola and Manni are together and are seemingly illuminating red light, which exhibits their love and passion. The colour red is symbolically used in the film to emphasize certain aspects of Lola's life that are maintained in the use of props. In the beginning, the call to Lola is answered on a red phone, which highlights the urgency of Manni’s call and sets the precedence for the symbolic use of red throughout the movie. The recurring motif of the red ambulance at the end of each run represents urgency and tension. The red accents the rushed plotline, the love between Lola and Manni, and the blood of them both.

In life, the color red can be a symbol for strength, power, and hope. In “The Scarlet Ibis,” however the color red represents innocence. The color red represents something out of place. Doodle and the ibis are connected through the author’s brilliant penmanship. The ibis is Doodle in another form.

“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. In his fairy tale Perrault prevents girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: young girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent.

The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich is a short about the lives of two Chippewa brothers living on an Indian reservation in North Dakota. Erdrich uses the symbol of red to show emotions associated with red and the setting which allow readers to understand the text while providing opportunity to read a lot more into the story. Color associations varies with many different cultures. Although Erdrich created a Native American story, she draw readers of different backgrounds to find some relationship with colors. There are two specific connotations of the color red.

These symbols effectively foreshadow another death, Doodle’s, caused by his brothers broken carelessness. After his death, which, interestingly enough, is also quite red, the story starts to come together. “Finally I went back and found him huddled beneath a red nightshade bush… his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red … He lay very awkwardly … making his vermilion neck appear unusually long and slim… I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar … I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of the rain.” The foreshadowing adds a more complete ending by wrapping it up and rendering the work more finished. Doodle’s death, being more unexpected than Fortunato’s, evokes a more emotional response, since the color red has already been introduced in various other parts of the story. To conclude, the ending has a much more powerful impact by bringing together every single time that color has been used along with the two vines, and demonstrating just how terrible pride can be. These two stories present foreshadowing in different ways, different forms, and for different purposes, yet they both foretell the single truth of

     David R. Dudley states that “the Red Death symbolizes death in general” (Dudley 169). This

The color red symbolics all of the colors and how each can have numerous emotions coming

In the novel, Red felt what he was doing as a husband was not enough for his father-in-law. Although he did everything that was asked of him in order to be that best husband, it was not good enough. He felt the need that he

The novel symbolizes blood and the color red as a dramatic change within the story. For example, after Rawlins had been stabbed, Grady had consequently been stabbed as well, which led to them leaving the Mexican prison (by Alfonsa) and ultimately separating from each other. Another example located on page 302 describes the desert sky and the red wind right before Grady leaves for Texas, a drastic turn of events within the novel. Moreover, right before meeting Alejandra and changing his journey forever, Grady ate a red fruit, of which stained his fingers, which concluded a dramatic change was about to occur. For symbolic scars, on page 135, as Alfonsa mentions her scars during the war, it symbolizes that the past is real and should not be forgotten.

In literature, red is often associated with blood and violence. Four researchers, Erella Hovers, Shimon Ilani, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Bernard Vandermeersch, studied colored symbolism and concluded; “Color symbolism is one of the symbolic frameworks used extensively by contemporary societies to convey information and abstract messages through material objects” (Hovers et al.,2003.) Through the use of colors, May vividly expresses the emotions of the speaker towards society, regarding the topics of warfare and education. He specifically selects certain colors, like black and red, to stir up emotions within Jontae. The colors create a symbolic image, ultimately leading up to represent the violent scenes taking place. May writes his fear; “I know how often red is the only color left to reach” (18-19), to show his apprehension for Jontae a young male in society surrounded by warfare. Red in literature often represents blood, sacrifice, and violence. Using colors throughout the poem, creates a more vehement atmosphere, in which Jontae is left to choose between warfare, and discovering his identity in an alternative

The color red is used in literature as well as throughout The Book Thief to display war, blood, and anger (Morton). Early in the novel, Death associates red with war, “The last time I saw her was red… Then bombs” (Zusak 12), Death uses the

Today’s society has many different associations for the color red. Red is most often paired with intensity, anger, and aggression. Red is often times a standout color, not modest at all. Policemen are told that when radaring, they should look for red cars first because

Prince Prospero tries to prevent the Disease by isolating his 1000 friends including himself. They go to his Abbey not realizing that death would still catch up to them. They are trying to prevent their death. The color Red brings terror to the story, either by blood or the way it concerns blood.

Red represents passion, strength, violence, and revenge and develops the tone of the novel regarding the Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul, he and Farid are standing in the street when they “passed several more red pickup trucks with armed, bearded young men crammed into the cabs” (265). The red pickup trucks are loaded with people in the Taliban. Hosseini uses the shade of red to represent the Talib men inside the trucks. The men in the Taliban are strong in the sense that they are feared and there are many of them, violent due to the nature of their rule (public executions and the Hazara massacre),, and passionate about ruling over Afghanistan. Red also happens to symbolize blood. The Taliban issues a public stoning to bring justice to a man and woman who disobeyed the holy word of God. After the stoning, “The man in the hole was now a mangled mess of blood and rags” (271). The Taliban were passionate about bringing justice to the man who disobeyed the Quran. Red symbolises the blood that was shed in the name of the Taliban. When Amir is sitting on the sofa, waiting of the Talib man that happens to be Assef to arrive with Sohrab, he notices that “On the table sat a bowl of red grapes” (275). These red grapes act as foreshadowing for the violence that occurs between Amir and Assef. The grapes also represent passionate revenge. Part of the reason why Assef attacked Amir was due to the fact that when

394). The second connection is found with the color red in the story are the American ideas of the negative things found in association with it. These things included blood, aggression, danger and war. These negative associations are connected with Henry throughout the story. When he returns home from war, Lyman says "once I was in the room watching TV with Henry, I looked over, and he'd bitten through his lip. Blood was going down his chin". This depiction is important because not only does it show Henry's misdirected aggression, but again uses red. "There was still blood going down Henry's chin, but he didn't notice", in this we see how a color once associated with the car that made Henry so happy, has become a body fluid going unnoticed (p. 396).