Symbols in Literature. Symbols… Allegories and Parables are symbolic ergo A symbol is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea. – Symbols.

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Symbols in Literature

Symbols… Allegories and Parables are symbolic ergo A symbol is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea. – Symbols come in to kinds: Symbols that are universal to all literature: The most familiar of these to us are the 26 letters of the alphabet. Others have been used for the same things so long that they have those meanings and all authors know them. If they are using them they are accepting the meaning or playing with it. Symbols that are unique to the work: These symbols are developed by the author for their own purposes through the significant they are given. These symbols can be a hybrid of a unique symbol added to a universal symbol.

Symbols in “The Blue Stones” Unique or universal symbol? Discuss the story with a group, what do you believe that the blue stones represent? Be ready to defend your answer by taking information and details from the story. – Are their other symbols in the story? Are the blue stones a hybrid? If so what part is universal.

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