Symbol

Context

Memes

Read “Hills Like White

Elephants”

“Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was simultaneously both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be retained and could not be put to much practical use, but cost a significant amount to maintain.”

From Wikipedia

Levels of story--

-PERCEPTION-

Who provides a symbol?

context

What they are Vs

What they -Represent-

Dick Prosser??

Multiple meanings

Irony

-Verbal-“You’re a regular Messiah, aren’t

you?”

-dramatic-

Dimmesdale

-situational-

Appearance Vs

RealityIn 1974, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission had to recall 80,000 of its own lapel buttons promoting "toy safety", because the buttons had sharp edges, used lead paint, and had small clips that could be broken off and subsequently swallowed.

Expectation vs

Fulfillment

Kudzu - a vine imported to the United States in the 1930s and planted all over the South at the direction of the US Government in order to prevent soil erosion. Instead of preventing erosion, it climbs and chokes native trees and plants, thus causing even more erosion.

-What isVs

What seems-“Defender

Of The Faith”

Camus

Existentialism

Absurdism

Sisyphus

Three choices:S__

L__ of F__R__

Read “The Guest”