Just like irony... There is symbolism... In high school english class... The word used to make me groan... It took any joy out of Huck Finn... Aren't a teenage boy's adventures supposed to be enjoyable... And not his every move analyzed... Grapes of Wrath was like a thousand pages of it... And Mrs Katz destroyed the Scarlet Letter with making us write lit log after lit log analyzing it... I can't remember how many logs I wrote about the symbolic meaning of Pearl's name... I swear the only thing I can remember about that book is that the kid's name was Pearl... And that it supposely had this deep powerful hidden meaning behind it...
I suppose just like irony... There is symbolism in real life too... I believe we call them symbolic gestures... Like a yellow ribbon around the tree for the troops overseas... or a white rose for purity... The list could keep going on... And on... But why bother you get my point... I know what is this chick rambling about now... I could understand that... After all usually by this point in the blog... I reveal some bigger point to this blog... Like an Aesop's Fable... After all I usually do... So of course you're waiting for the other shoe to fall... But not this time... Besides there's a lot of hidden symbolic gestures in my blogs... A writer never reveals their secrets... Mark twain never revealed the meaning of the river or the raft... He always left it there for the reader to guess... I would be a very bad writer if I didn't leave at least a little bit of a mystery... Hey don't get annoyed at least I gave a little clue to read behind the lines... Twain, Hawthorne, and Steinbeck never even gave that...
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