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Essay Archive - James Hurst's Use of Symbols to Create a Mood
James Hurst's Use of Symbols to Create a Mood
James Hurst effectively uses symbolism in the first paragraphs of
his short stories to create a mood filled with despair, gloominess, life,
To create a gloomy feeling, James Hurst used the changing of
seasons. In "The Scarlet Ibis," he wrote that summer was now dead, but
autumn had not yet been born. Also, in "The Summer of Two Figs," James
Hurst created the statement: a summer born of fulsome promise faded into
falling leaves unfulfilled. A feeling of desolation was presented here
when Hurst implied that summer was born with great pr....
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