Symbolism

Authors note: I am writing a short response of symbolism on the story "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson.

  Symbolism is a way to represent something. In this case symbolism is representing something in the story "The Lottery". In this short story there is a lot of signs of symbolism. Some signs that I found are rocks, the black box, the paper/ticket, big rock, lottery, and the black dot. Symbolism is also a way to help a person understand a story better. 

   The big rock shows a symbolism of friendship. This shows friendship because in this story the lady was being stoned. Her best friend grabbed the biggest rock she saw to through at her. Yes, that may sound like she isn't a very good friend right. Why do you think she grabbed the biggest rock? Well a reason she grabbed the biggest one is because she didn’t want her best friend to go through a long and hurting death. She wanted to save her friend the suffering of standing there getting hit by lots of rocks. So she threw the biggest one to kill her faster.

   In conclusion, this story shows very good symbolism. Also the symbolism in this story can help you understand the story more.

The Choices we make

The Choices we make

Author’s note: This is a response essay to a quote made from the book “Crossed”, by Ally Condie. This quote was said by Cassia in the book when she was telling the reader about a gift she received from her mother.

   “In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.” Have you ever had something you really loved but you couldn’t keep it? Some people have things they feel like they need to keep. Well in this story Cassia has something that was given to her from her mother. Where Cassia lives she can’t keep anything and everything that Cassia has gets taken from her unless she hides it.

   First, Cassia is a quite person she likes to keep to herself. Also Cassia is missing her best friend; this is a reason why she keeps to herself. She is also a very curious person. Cassia is very curious about the mountains and lakes, anytime she hears an official talking about either one she listens very closely and tries to get as much information as possible. What does this quote mean to you? I think this quote is telling the reader that life isn’t fair; you can’t choose what you can or cannot keep in life all you can do is choose how you will let it go.

  

Secondly, a reason Cassia said this is because she was planning to run away but she could only take very little things with her. She wanted to take a gift her mother gave to her when she was younger but that meant she wouldn’t have enough room to bring water and food to last her. Cassie also had to bring along a map and compass. She had to pack light because if she took a lot of things with her she would never get away.

   In conclusion, people have to make choices they don’t want to make. Sometimes people have to get rid of things they love and cherish to survive. For example Cassia received a gift from her mother but she couldn’t keep it in order to survive.

Katsa's Point of View

Katsa’s Viewpoint 

   Authors note: This is an essay about the point of view of Katsa from the book Graceling, explaining the event where Katsa had to kill a king.

   In the book Graceling, many huge events occur. But the event I found the most interesting and most important is the event where Katsa was forced to kill a king. This book is written in Katsa’s point of view. From her perspective a lot of events and characters are described in a way of very emotional, painful, sad, happy, exciting and adventurist.  

   First, one way that Katsa’s point of view influences the reader’s interpretation is how her point of view of the sorrow she felt as she was forced to kill the king. It all happened so fast, Katsa came home one day. Her uncle who is King Randa called her to him. He sent her to go kill another king. She didn’t want to do it, but she had no choice she was ordered too. How do you think she felt when she had to kill the King? How would you feel if you were forced to kill another person?     

   Secondly, this influences me because it tells me that in some places people are forced to do things they don’t want to do. The details in this story are very well explained especially this scene. A reason why I think this scene is more detailed than any other scene is because in this scene she states that she tries to put on a normal face so that no one would noticed that she doesn’t want to be doing this. I think that the reader would feel that this is a very good book. I also think that the reader’s feelings about Katsa would be that she is a very nice and caring person. I also think that the reader would think she doesn’t like the job she has as being King Randa’s hit man. 

   Finally, if this book Graceling, was written in the point of view of King Randa, I think the reader would feel different about the book. The reason I think the reader would feel different about this book is because I think the book would show more selfishness also the book wouldn’t have as much detailed scenes and no emotion. 

   In conclusion, this event relates to slavery. This relates to slavery because people had to do what their leader told them to do, weather they wanted to do it or not; weather it was good or bad they had no choice like Katsa she had no choice.