Directions, Symbolism
“No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in…That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better….I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea, a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. letter, Sept. 13, 1952, to the critic Bernard Berenson. Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker (1981). Of The Old Man and the Sea published that year.
Using The Sun Also Rises or The Great Gatsby, recast in your own words a very short passage (a paragraph or perhaps two short ones or even just a few lines of the dialog), adding a symbol or a series of symbols. Try to make it a plain bread rather than a raisin bread symbol. Then, in a 1.5-page micro essay, demonstrate your understanding of symbolism by
incorporating a definition and suggesting why writers use symbolism, generally, and
explaining how and why youve used it in your example
An adequate student sample: Student Sample: Mastery Assignment Symbolism
Include the original passage in red and your rewritten passage in blue. Single space them both. Leave your micro essay in black.
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