13、, black girls still admire what white girls possess, for example, the blue eyes, and every black girl wishes to have blue eyes eagerly. However, in my opinion, the blue eyes is only a symbol. It stands for all the privilege that white people own over black people. It does not me...
The Bible, containing all the important teachings of Jesus Christ, is a symbol of Christian faith. However, the big red-gold Bible placed on the most conspicuous(显眼的) place in the room had become a showpiece. For the same purpose of showing off, a color picture of Jesus Christ hung ...
With his own ghostly hand, the obscurely seen but majestic figure had imparted to me the scarlet symbol, and the little roll of explanatory manuscript. With his own ghostly voice, he had exhorted me, on the sacred consideration of my filial duty and reverence towards him-who might reasonably...
fate. Morrison’s first novel The Bluest Eye, from which the following text is taken, tells the heartbreaking story of Pecola Breedlove, a vulnerable black girl, living in Lorain, Ohio, in the early 1940s. In a society where blue eyes and whiteness are equated with beauty, and therefore,...
and is most definitely not adored by anyone. Maureen became a symbol of beauty to Pecola, comparable to Shirley Temple.In this book Toni Morrison speaks to both whites and blacks. She is trying to show how a racist social system wears down the minds and souls of people. She i...
The first message submitted to me was so short that it was impossible for me to do more than to say, with some confidence, that the symbol. stood for E. As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet, and it predominates to so marked an extent that...
3.something having a blue color. 4.a person wearing blue or belonging to a group identified by some blue symbol. 5.(often cap.) a member of the Union army in the American Civil War, or the army itself. Comparegray1(def. 11). ...
There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something.He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of.If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude.Her blue felt hat would show off...
New Moon Symbol in Calendars The symbol for New Moon in modern calendars is a filled, black circle. The other primary Moon phase symbols in calendars: = First Quarter, = Full Moon, = Third Quarter Calendar with Moon phases Causes Solar Eclipses ...
“The Raven’s Brocade” is a retelling of the famous Japanese folk tale “Tsuru no Ongaeshi,” or “The Crane’s Gratitude.” In Japan, the crane, once thought to live a thousand years, is considered a symbol of longevity. It also...