WHAT DOES THE PROTAGONIST OF A TEXT
DEMONSTRATE?
About “setting”? (social classes, time, place, history & heritage, values)
About her role? (in society or in the text)
About what she stands for? (justice, freedom, sexuality, beauty)
About other people like her? (stereotypes)
HOW? What specific symbols?
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In Finding Forrester, read the following passages and think about anything symbolism:
“Somehow Crawford’s praise, if that’s what it was,
left a sour note. It was as thought he didn’t believe Jamal was capable of good
work. There was just a grudging acknowledgment that what he was doing now was
an improvement over his work at Franklin. Disappointed, Jamal walked to the
subway, bent over from the weight of his backpack and his thoughts.” –p. 88
“I left my backpack up there.”
… Jamal slouched off toward home, head hung low, hands jammed deep in
his pockets. He felt strangely light and insubstantial without his backpack-
light and wrong. P. 27-29
“I may be black, he thought, but
he guy trusts me a little now because I’m smart and he knows I’m smart. What a
screwed up world. Just then, Jamal heard a thump on the sidewalk. He
wheeled around, holding the ball in front of him like a shield to fend off
attackers. His backpack lay on the sidewalk. Jamal glanced up, but he saw
nothing inside the open window. Still, he sensed the man’s presence somewhere
behind the windows staring down at him.” –p.39
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