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Imagery And Symbolism In Anna By Jonathan Hunt

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As mankind battles with issues in everyday situations, very few people will ever encounter an escape from a life or death situation from bloodthirsty stalkers. For example, fear can exemplify an obstacle that may needs commitment to overcame in difficult situations. As Anna tries to escape from a pack of wild dogs who stalk and chase afer her relentlessly, author Jonathan Hunt’s shows the reader how Anna’s fear of her situation helps her escape briefiely, but does provie solitarily. In the excerpt from “Anna”, author Jonathan Hunt creates well constructed examples of imagery and symbols to better support the characterization of the protagonist (Anna) and antagonist (The dog), as well as contribute to the idea that fear materializes throughout …show more content…

Hunt creates this image where one place contains items necesary for survival, making you feel as if you must go to this place to get what you need by stating, “you only had to go to Castellammare and you found what you wanted” (Hunt 2). The reasoning Hunt specifies that the dog chasing Anna apears black at first referneces to the opion that, according to Jacci Bear of Lifewire , the color black gives off a negative and evil vibe (Bear “Designers guide to Black”), which causes Anna’s instincts to kick in, becoming more frightened by the dog. Hunt states “The other dogs had gradually dropped away. Not him. He hadn’t closed on her over the last kilometer. But she was running flat out; he was just loping along” (Hunt 3) to symbolize to the reader that this menace proves a gaping problem in Anna’s quest and pesters Anna in making it home alive and preferably unharmed Hunt includes the text “Waiting for darkness before he attacked? Dogs didn’t plan so rationally?”(Hunt 4), to describe Anna’s affected thoughts of rationality and paranoia in the situations, which impacts her fear, making Anna feel like a planned victim to the dogs. When Hunt states “She grabbed the fence to climb up, but was paralysed by fear”, it represents the importance of Anna’s mental state, how Anna fear affetcs her overall situation, adding doubt and taking away hope (Hunt

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