Symbolism Assessment Project

Symbolism and Allegory Unit Reflection

Over the past few weeks my class has been working on the words and meanings of symbolism and allegory. I learned about symbol  because our teacher had us read a story about called “The Grandfather”, and One assignment we had to do was write a paragraph about what symbolizes one important person in your life. We learned about allegory from a story our teacher had us read called “The Cave”.  Assignment we had to do that includes allegory is what we would do if we were in the narrator’s situation in the story “The Cave”. We had to write the paragraph because in the story a man was nearly beaten to death and after gathering the strength to find shelter in a cave he was encouraged enough to go back to the people who had beaten him and fight again, he was encouraged because in the cave he found a bears skull, axe head, and a arrow head that had blinded the bear. And from those objects he knew that a man blinded the bear and killed it. Studying symbolism and allegory changed the way I was thinking because when I never knew there were so many ways you could symbolize something or someone.

“The Grandfather” Three Meanings of the Tree Paragraph

The most symbolic item in “The Grandfather” is the avocado tree the grandfather grew in his backyard. I think the avocado tree is the most symbolic item in the story because the grandfather worked very hard to try and grow the tree. In the story the avocado tree represents the grandfather because while his tree was growing stronger and stronger so was the grandrandfathers family.  In the story the tree represents the narrator because when the tree was growing bigger and bigger so was the narrator at the same time. In the story the tree represents the grandfather’s family because when the tree grows stronger and bigger the grandfather’s family is growing bigger and stronger at the same time.