Symbolism In The Great Bobby

For the purpose of the red balloon, it means that Bobby’s childhood is gone and needs to grow up. In the chapter(page 5-6) of Bobby’s birthday, he turns sixteen. Nia comes on Bobby’s birthday with a red balloon outside of his apartment. A red balloon could mean a number of ideas. For instance it could translate happy birthday Bobby or Bobby you are going to be a father! Angela Johnson is talking about that Bobby is going to be a father because Nia in the book says” I got something to tell you”. That means that the red balloon has to interpret that Nia is pregnant with Bobby’s child and that he is going to have to take responsibility. So, the red balloon symbolizes Bobby coming of age.

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 the story, When the Legends Die, author Hal Borland symbolizes red throughout the story and at least once within each four sections.

First i'll be talking about what the basketball really means in the First Part Last. This basketball symbolizes childhood. Of course it can be something else but it's the way how the author had used the basketball in the book that makes it a symbolism of childhood. It's used to tell the readers that the character Bobby is finally Maturing since he is becoming a father.It's getting to him that he can't be a kid anymore because now he has to be the grown up. It's hard for him but it wasn't anyone's else choice it was his and Nias.

the basketball in the story symbolises childhood, and it shows bobby coming of age. bobby left the baby home by accident. playing basketball with his friends K.boy and J.L he realises his mistake, so he must stop his fun and rush home. he sees his baby safe still so he lays his basketball down to comfort his baby feather. meanwhile the basket ball “rolls out the door into the hall toward Mary's room”(23), representing Bobby's childhood has to leave and mary can now act like one because her son is growing up.

The red balloon is a symbol. It symbolizes that Nia is giving up her childhood. It also shows who is in control. Usually when you have a balloon you are in control of it, but the thing you are controlling is the string not the balloon itself. “Then she handed me the balloon” (Johnson, .) Nia gives Bobby the red balloon when she tells him that she is pregnant. Upon hearing the word or seeing the color red, what does the mind think of? Is it blood, help, love or negative things? With this in mind, what else does the mind think of when

A symbol that is shown is the symbol of the arcade, and children playing games. Bobby will see these children, or talk of what his friends are doing in the arcade; furthermore, it shows that Bobby wants to be a kid again. A symbol that is also shown is the symbol of the bubblegum. The bubblegum found on page 108 shows that he feels the temptation to leave Feather behind, and to just have his life be easy and simple. These symbols all show his longing to be a kid again, but he doesn’t follow these promptings. Bobby always seems to only glance at these symbols, but not put them to action. He doesn’t want to leave Feather all alone, even if it is hard. Another thing that Bobby does throughout the book is he censors himself. Instead of speaking out loud, he stops himself. On page forty-two, Bobby thinks to himself while the teacher is talking, and doesn’t try to contradict what the teacher is saying. He tries his hardest to just listen and keep the situation from getting worse. Throughout the book, Bobby says that he sometimes wants to be like Feather. He even acts like he is Feather’s brother on page 82 saying, “Yeah, she’s easy to deal with, my sister,” in order to get out of the responsibility of being a parent, yet he still has to take care of Feather at the end of the day. “This must be what made my mom’s eyes narrow and nasty words come out of her mouth. This must be what helped give my dad an ulcer and that look on his face that says-what next (Page 33)?” Bobby is able to realize that what he has done has changed the lives of his parents, and it has made the situation harder for his family overall. He feels bad, saying, “I feel worse because I’m taking my dad’s smile and probably some more things he’ll never talk about (Page 74),” and he sees that he might have taken his dad’s smile away. He feels guilty, and therefore decides that he will do as much as he can without his parent’s help. This

In simpler words, Bobby was one of the branches of a tree that was going to lead us into the main point involving Gabriel, the orange tree, and the

This is one of the reasons I think Bobby has come of age. In the nextparagraph i'm going to tell another reason how Bobby has come of age.""The second reason to how Bobby has come of age is he is losing his old identity andgaining a new one as he is coming of age. In the book "The First Part Last" he spray paints awall. This wall symbolizes all his positive memories from being a kid all the way to when Featherwas born. Then Johnson goes on to say, "Finally it's just me and that thing in the baby carrierwho doesn't have a face" (pg.60). In this chapter he wants to find the baby's face but he can't. Ina few chapters after that Angela says "I climb the stairs and think about holding her, or maybeI'm really thinking about just holding on to her"(pg.75). He realized Feather is the missing piece inhis life and he wants to keep it that way and not lose her. He needs to lose his old partying anddoing whatever he wants identity and get a new mature and father like identity in order to dothat.This has to do with Angela Johnson's discussion regarding coming of age because he has tochange so much to be mature it's like he's gaining a new identity and growing up.This is anotherreason I think Bobby has come of age.

One symbol would be when Bobby forgot Feather to go play basketball. The symbol here is the basketball. When he got home, Bobby set the basketball down and it rolled into his mothers room. The symbol for this is that the basketball is his childhood. I think that Bobby forgot Feather because he

Before the initial introduction of Curley's wife, her character is explored through the discussion of the men in the bunkhouse. The language they use forces the reader to form an opinion of her before she is seen in the novella. Candy says 'she got the eye', which gives her the characteristic of a 'tart' since she is a married woman who is seen flirting with various men on the ranch. This negative image is enhanced through the semantic field of misogynistic and derogatory language used against her, including 'bitch', 'poison' and 'rattrap'. She acts as a microcosm of women in society during the 1930's, representing their mistreatment by men and how they were viewed as possessions and objects.

Bobby's best friends are K-boy and J.L, and he was going to go to the park to play basketball with them. On his way down the steps he remembers Feather. He now has to walk back to the apartment and tend to feathers needs. He sets the ball down and it rolls away from him and into the hallway. When the ball rolls away it is representing Bobby's old life or childhood. His fun is rolling away from him and he is stuck with life. Now instead of having a good time with his friends, he has to take care of

In the beginning, Nia decides to give Bobby a red balloon on his 16th birthday. While doing this, she says, “Bobby, I have something to tell you.” With this, some conclusions that are drawn are that the news is not positive, and it could mean a drastic change in Bobby’s life. Also, the red balloon has the potential to symbolize many other objects, including Nia’s childhood, innocence, children, and change that is yet to come. For example, since the news is likely about pregnancy, the balloon could represent Nia giving up her innocence and childhood to Bobby, since she has to give up her old life for new responsibilities that come with being a

" The words such as "red fruit" suggests that the baby is almost fully developed, as for when most fruits turn red, they are ready to be eaten. Red represents blood, which could imply that blood is circulating around, in the baby. Red also is the colour of danger. It's a warning that giving birth is also very risky.

In the short story, “A Red Dress 1946” by Alice Munro, Color imagery is used for signifying a girls point of view of her world and her own self by using the color red which represents nonconformity. The narrator has only a slight interest in being red, but she really wants to be blue, just like everyone else. Munro writes, “When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all…that I had blood on my skirt”.(2) The narrator is just so nervous about being red she is thinking of bad things that can happen with the color red. She is thinking of all the bad times the color red could do a girl badly, just like a girls period could leak at any moment. In “A Red Dress 1946”, a short story by Alice Munro, she uses Color Imagery to show the significance of the narrator’s view of the color red and all the “Evil” about it.