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America And I: “Light” And “Dark” - Term Papers

America And I: “Light” And “Dark”

America and I: "Light” and “Dark”
For this final paper I chose to take a closer look at the writing of Anzia Yezierska in “America and I”. I decided to examine the symbolism used by Yezierska in this piece. Yezierska tells the story of her struggle to find “America”. As she writes about this Yezierska uses symbolism to convey ideas and connotations about her feelings and her perception of America. The words and images of “darkness” and “light” are used throughout the piece. Yezierska uses the idea of “darkness” and “light” to symbolize the negative and positive aspects of her experience and understanding in America.
As it is commonly regarded darkness symbolizes those things which have ...

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her coming from Russia to America. She describes her hopes for America as “sunlight burning through my darkness”. In this instance she has used light and dark to emphasize her feelings. Sunlight is used to symbolize the hopes and dreams of a better life while darkness is used to illustrate the hopelessness and disparity she felt in Russia. Furthermore, she depicts the people of Russia as “colors that never saw light”. In saying this she reemphasizes the hopelessness of Russia and demonstrates her longing to move a better place.
The first use of light and dark in describing her coming from Russia to America sets the standard for the feelings that the reader interprets from the symbolism in light and dark. From this point on the idea of light and dark plays a part in the telling of Yezierska’s story.
She next uses the idea of dark and light when talking about her first job. She imagines what it will be like to get her first wages in America. The symbol of light is used when ...

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Added: 5/27/2005 05:10:15 AM
Category: Book Reports
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