Symbolism In The Red Convertible By Louise Erdrich

The Change of Two Brother’s Relationship Certain circumstances can change a person for the better or for the worse. In “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich, she demonstrates how the Vietnam War completely altered a young man’s personality. Two brothers, Henry and Lyman, who has an inseparable bond in the beginning of the story were portrayed also as best friends.

Louise Erdrich was the child of Ralph Louis and Rita Joanne who had both affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Her writing abilities and storytelling came from her family. Around eight years old, everybody in her family from her grandparents to her parents told her stories of how it had been on the Indian reservation during The Great Depression. Her father would mainly tell her stories of his relatives and the previous towns he used to live in.

During the whole book love is a prominent motif, characters do many odd and extravagant things for love throughout the book. Gatsby goes the farthest for love, he dedicated his whole life to get back together with Daisy even though she has a husband and a daughter. In chapter 4 Nick and Jordan were together and they discuss Gatsby 's house in relation to Daisy 's, he says: "It was a strange coincidence," I said. ‘But it wasn 't a coincidence at all.’ ’Why not?’ ’

Lyman “returned” him the convertible by sending it in the water too. The story demonstrates many symbols. The color of the convertible is one of them. According to some sources, red symbolizes faith and communication in the Native American culture.

The growth of a person can take place through changes that occur within or around their lives. For example, in “The Red Convertible,” Erdrich’s character Lyman is a prime example of growing through change. The change from carefree to serious is triggered through his experience of assisting his brother, Henry’s, psychological transformation after returning from the Vietnam War as a Prisoner of War. Lyman exemplified growth through his attempt to learn how to react to/help his brother. Prior to Henry, his elder brother, leaving for and returning from the Vietnam War, Lyman was carefree.

The relationship between the brothers in “The Red Convertible” is in direct correlation with the condition of the car. The story takes place throughout the northern and western parts of the United States, as well as Canada, but the story’s central focus is the car. When Henry first goes away to war the relationship is in good standing. The car is also is good condition when Henry leaves for Vietnam. Upon returning from war, their relationship is not where it was when Henry had left.

Currently known as one of the best poets of all time, Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts also the place where she was born and went to school. Born In 1830 and passed away in 1886, her poem ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’ is published in 1896 which raises the question, how come her poetry is published after her death? Dickinson had an older sibling who found all her literature and published it, although her father decided to take her out of school she was recognized as a prodigious student in Amherst college. Her teenage years is when she had a spark in interest to start writing. Noticeably, Dickinson’s literature became immensely popular in North America and the European countries.

Zusak uses historical facts to set a background for his novel and fiction to give a different view of the story. Zusak is the child of immigrant German and Austrian parents. His parents had a great influence as to why he wrote his best-selling novel, The Book Thief. “Zusak chose the subject matter in part to share the stories his parents told him about growing up in Austria and Germany during the war” (“Markus”). Zusak’s parents have had experience with the Nazis in their life, so Zusak had a primary source to go to for facts.

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