1.Universal or archetypal symbols, such as a circle, a storm, or a bird, are so much a part of the human experience that they suggest the same thing to most people.
2. Conventional symbols are also likely to suggest the same thing to most of people, provided the people to have common cultural and social assumptions. ex) a rose, a cross.
3. Literary symbols are can be both universal and conventional; however, they represent an important point that the author is trying to make.
<Point of View>: point of view is the vantage point from which the events in the story are presented. the implication of poinf of view are far-reaching.
- it is important to remember that the narrator of a work of fiction is not the same as the writer- even when a writer uses the first person "I." Authors simply assumed persona.
- First person Narrator (I or We): a first person narrator can be a major character, or a minor character, sometimes first person narrator can be unreliable/ Unreliable narrators are often self-serving, mistaken, confused, unstable or even mad.
- Third person Narrator (narrators not in the story): Omniscient narrators are all knowing tellers of the story, these narrators have non of the naivete, dishonesty, gullibility, or mental instability of some first-person narrators, Limited Omniscient narrator/ Objective narrators tell a story from an objective point of vie and remain entirely outside the character's minds. Narrators tell the story only by presenting dialogue and recounting events.
- Thematic Relationships
- gender conflict
- love and relationships
- revenge and honor
- initiation/rites of passage
- power/powerlessness
- american dream/nightmare
- loss/death/mortality
- changing traditions
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