James Hurst's Use Of Symbols To Create A Mood
Beginning of paper
James Hurst effectively uses symbolism in the first paragraphs of
his short stories to create a mood filled with despair, gloominess, life,
and death.
To create a gloomy feeling, James Hurst used the changing of
seasons. In "The Scarlet Ibis," he wrote that summer was now dead, but
autumn had not ....
Middle of paper
.... there was a nearby
graveyard filled with deadly air. In "The Summer of Two Figs," the fabric
originally meant for a party dress that ended up turning into a shroud,
allowed one to sense that a dead organism was lurking nearby. The
statement "evil lurking around the perimeters of the homesteads," not only
represented a horrid feeling of death, but also created a sense of dread
and dismay for the place being described.
When James Hurst mentioned in both paragraphs that summer had
started and ....
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