Analyzing Themes Of Symbols

Symbols

1. Symbols add to the magical appeal of the story because they enhance the understanding. The symbolization of the storm in the story shows the change from reality to magically. The wings of the old man are also a symbol is the story. Wings typically represent limitless freedom of motion and are magical however the wings of the old man limit him, they appear too fragile and old like the man giving them a real aspect. Allowing the reader to understand that something that is magically has real aspects as well in magical realism.

2. These symbols add to the story by giving it details and adding meaning to the text. Light is represent throughout the text as well as filth, “Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish.” The description of the sky before the storm symbolizes light meanwhile and the present after the storm is now disgusting representing filthy. When the old man

The symbols in the story help convey the story, this show how the angel is human like and deserve to be treated similarly and not to be trapped and dehumanized. The symbolization of the captives of animals and the angel may suggest how the towns people want to keep everything contained, anything with ability to become superior to the. The wings of the angel also symbolize age and humanness as well as differences, the old man is more human but still is captive, trapped and mistreat due to these wings. The character themselves find the angel familiar, “Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame thee surprise and found him familiar.” The author uses symbols to convey the message by showing that one’s different, the old man’s wing, can also be another reason he is similar to the townspeople and society must understand this. Overall the author uses symbols to convey the message that we show fear on differences because with these differences there is something