SymbolismIn this novel Ellison uses food symbols to express the narrators past, he uses foods such as a yam. “I took a bite, finding it as sweet and hot as any I'd ever had, and was overcome with such a surge of homesickness that I turned away to keep my control.” (Ellison, Ch.13) By using foods he later shows that the narrator longs for his simple past with his family. The narrator is a symbol that represent every person that is or has experienced what the narrator had. People who have feelings of no reason as in society. Another example of symbolism shown is more or less ironic do to the fact that it is not true o its name, “Liberty Pants”. “KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS” (Ellison, Ch. 10) This is a significant example of ironic symbolism because it is an issue which is not at all true in any part of the book.
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