1. Symbols in Literature

2. Symbols… Allegories and Parables are symbolic ergo
A symbol is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea.
Symbols come in two 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 significance they are given.
These symbols can be a hybrid of a unique symbol added to a universal symbol.

3. 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.

4. Round 1 10 20 30 40 50 Round 1 Colors Nature Weather The Wilderness
Human Life 10 20 30 40 50

5. Colors – 10 points
White
innocence, life, light, purity, or enlightenment
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6. Colors – 20 points
Black
seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats
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7. Colors – 30 points
Purple
royalty, bruising or pain
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8. Colors – 40 points
Red
immoral; the color of the life principle, blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring; often associated with fire
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9. Colors– 50 points
Blue
cool, calm, peaceful; an insubstantial color in the real world except as translucency, the void of heavens
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10. Nature – 10 points
Spring
birth, new beginning
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11. Nature – 20 points
Water
washes away guilt, origin of life, regeneration, vehicle of cleansing
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12. Plot – 30 points
Gold
the perfect metal; a reflection of heavenly light; it suggest the sun-fertility, wealth, dominion; it is a male principle
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13. Nature – 40 points
Darkness
evil, ignorance, danger
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14. Nature– 50 points
Weeds
evil (hemlock, pigweed, etc), wildness/outcasts of society
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15. Weather – 10 points
Rain
sadness or despair or new life; a symbol of celestial influences the Earth receives
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16. Vocabulary – 20 points Fog/Mist
prevents clear vision or thinking; represents isolation; mist is often the symbol of the indeterminate phase in development when shapes have yet to be defined; they are preludes to important revelations or prologues to manifestations
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17. Weather – 30 points
Thunder:
the voice of God or gods
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18. Weather – 40 points Wind and Storms violent human emotions
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19. Weather – 50 points Rainbows:
intermediaries and pathways between Heaven and Earth; mostly are generally heralds of good and are linked with cycles of rebirth, they may also serve as prologues to disturbance
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20. Wilderness – 10 points
Dove
peace, purity, simplicity
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21. Wilderness – 20 points
Lion
a solar symbol, power, pride
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22. Wilderness – 30 points Owl
wisdom, rational knowledge; messenger of death
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23. Wilderness– 40 points West
is the land of evening, old age, and the descending passage of the sun
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24. Wilderness– 50 points
Fox
slyness, cleverness
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25. Man – 10 points Eyes windows to the soul or barometer of emotions
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26. Man – 20 points
Mask
externalize demonic tendencies
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27. Man– 30 points
Chain
symbolizes the bond which connect Heaven and earth or ties together two extremes or beings
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28. Miscellaneous – 40 points
Blood
symbolizes all the integral qualities of fire and the heat and vitality inherent in the sun; it also corresponds to vital and bodily heat
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29. Miscellaneous– 50 points
Tower of Babel
confusion, human pride, resulted in multiple languages
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