Your A Smybol, I'm A Symbol, We're All A Of Something......Well, Maybe!

WHAT IS A SYMBOL?.....The most asked question in high schools in all English classes across the world! I can't tell you how many times I've asked myself what does that one star in the sky mean?, what does the green snail symbolize?, and what does the wooden basket man? And, of course when you ask for assistance, most teachers answer," well, what do you think?, what do you feel like it symbolize?" It could mean anything!


Reading about symbols in this chapter, I learned that even though there are some symbols that'll always been the same things n mater what story, book, letter, o a show they're in....for the most part a symbol can stand for tons of things!


Also the difference between symbolism, the use of symbols to express or represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, etc., and an allegory, a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation.


Certain symbols can only be engaged by the individual reader. No one can give a wrong and or write answer to if the item is the symbol to something or not. It's what you take anyway from the story. Every reader takes away personal outlook on everything that they thought.

All in all, symbolic meaning is what you make it. It's all about what you think it means and after reading this chapter I  know that when I read something that says," the kite that the little boy flew was yellow", and I think that the yellow ,meaning happiness, and the kite, meaning childhood, means a great happy and well- lived childhood then I am  not wrong because that what I saw and that's what it is to me!