The cracked house (2)

stood for a while ;waiting for answer  but all what I was hearing was the echo of my polite knocks on the wooden ,aging door ,like his house.Finally the door opened wider making a sound pretty much like a sick person's moaning .I stood there anticipating the opener's countenance which peculiarly never appeared .The knock's echo srengthen in my ears and never decreased, that was peculiar as well ,it became louder there when I discovered that was not the knocks echo,it was my heart's beats .HOW did that happend ?no one to open the door!what is behind this mysteriously interesting house? how could a person be unsuccessful in distiguishing between his heart's beats and an outer object? I am in a muddle now facing the murky darkness which  was revealed behind that wooden door .I was wandering deep inside my head,searching for the specific feeling should overwhelm me at that particular moment.

curiosity!.....strees!....fear!

It was curiosity for sure ,because next thing I watch my self steping over that house's threshold causiously like a soldier in the middle of a dense jungle waiting to be ambushed in fear and thrilling .Stratching my hands forward to feel what ever was laying there for my ayes coulden't fonction in that darkness,my nose was working splandidly thought,my nostrils catched a reek,smell of a rotten  wood mixed with a dead something that I coulden't identify.The smell's piculiarity resembles the house's one .

I paced forward blindly in what seems to be an endless murky hall .

there I noticed a faint light that illuminated the end of the hall it seemed to be a candle's flame down in the depth of the hall and it could inform meabout  the length of that hall.

have you noticed how many times I said the word "hall" ? yes. because whenever I remember that particular moment I feel the shudder   mingled with excitment ,inviding the mind of mine.

next thing I done was rushing toward that faint light in that murky hall carelessly to what would I find there .

I reached it finally to discover a wooden  door slightly open sending the dim rays of that daying candle which I managed to see .it was resting on a lumbered table ,trying to introduce me to the composition of that room there were a frame hanging on the wall above the table which  its contents were vague to me because of the distence.that candles drew a shadow of a human sitting on  what seemed to be one of those lumber chairs with a short back holder, swaying with the candle's flame on the room's fissured wall.
  three other polite knnocks on the wooden door ,but no answer, I walked in the room vigilantly
"you should not  be here" a trembling voice burst out of that sitting human abruptly without turning to my direction .
Yes I could realize that person's semblance.she was a mere old lady resting humpbacked and holding her grey head with her left palm while gazing at an album which she was holding with her other hand. the album contains a copies of the same picture,the frame above the table too.....it was a picture of a young fellow who never reached his thirties .his face is infantile but his black sleepy eyes hides a mestery he was smiling vaguely ,the look at that photo made me uneasy ....

the lady turned to me abruptly as if I finally caught her complete heed.......

Symbolism in Literature(2)

Symbolism in Literature

C.Hands : strength or weakness

D.Eyes : windows to the soul or barometer of emotions

E.Mouth : indicator of character traits

F.Neck : long slender neck is associated with sexuality

G.Knee : main source of bodily strength according to ancient traditions

H.Right and Left : to look to one’s right hand is to look to the protector; this is the place of the elect at the Last Judgment, the damned will go to the left

VIII.CLOTHING

A.Cape: or any circular garment or vestment with a hole in the middle suggests a celestial and ascendant symbolism. When monks or nuns withdraw from the world,they cover themselves in a cape or cloak, which symbolizes a withdrawal into oneself or into God.

B.Cloak: is a symbol of human trickery, and the different personalities humans can assume

C.Mask: externalize demonic tendencies

IX.OBJECTS

A.Chain: symbolizes the bond which connect Heaven and earth or ties together two extremes or beings

B.Key: a key has the power and authority of letting in and shutting out; to hold a keymeans to have been initiated. It not only shows the power to enter a place, town, or house, but to accede to a spiritual state or abode or to a level of initiation

C.Ladder: ladders are symbols of ascension and realization of potential; they are also symbols of intercommunication and the comings and goings between Heaven and Earth

D.Mirror: often a solar symbol; an unbroken mirror can be a sign of a happy marriage: a broken mirror would indicate a separation or destruction of the union

E.Tower of Babel: confusion, human pride, resulted in multiple languages

X.JOURNEY: may be a quest for truth, peace or immortality; a journey often serves as a metaphor for life

XI.SETTING

A.The forest: usually a place of evil or mystery

B.An isolated setting: alienation, loneliness

C.A garden: paradise of a haven

D.Window of a room: freedom or lack thereof

E.A park: a place for retreat and renewal

F.The town: place where rules are on their best behavior

G.Bed: consummation of marriage

H.Parlor: vanity.

Symbolism in Literatur

  A symbol is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea. The word symbol is derived from the Greek verb “symballein” which means “to put together and the related noun“symbol on” which means “mark”, “taken” or “sign”.The term, symbol, when used in literature is often a figure of speech in which a person,object, or situation represent something in addition to its literal meaning. Conventional or traditional literary symbols work in much the same way, and because they have a previously agreed up on meaning, they can be used to suggest ideas more universal than the physical aspect itself.A symbol may appear in a work of literature in a number of different ways to suggest a number of different things. Most commonly, a symbol will present itself in the form of 1) a word, 2)a figure of speech, 3) an event, 4) the total action, or 5) a character.Some conventional symbols are as follows: 

COLORS

  A. Red : immoral; the color of the life principle, blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring;often associated with fire 

B. Black : seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats 

C. White : innocence, life, light, purity, or enlightenment 

D. Green : inexperience, hope; new life, immaturity; a combination of blue and yellow, it mediates between heat and cold and high and low; it is a comforting, refreshing human color; it is the color of plant life 

E. Yellow : rotting, heat, decay, violence, decrepitude, old age, and the approach of death 

F. Blue : cool, calm, peaceful; an insubstantial color in the real world except as translucency,the void of heavens

 G. Pink : innocence, femininity 

H. Purple : royalty, bruising or pain 

I. Brown : a color somewhere between russet and black; it is the color of earth and ploughed land and soil, it represents humility and poverty

 J. Orange : symbolizes the point of balance between the spirit and the libido; it may be the emblem of divine love or extreme lust 

K. Violet : composed of red and blue, it is the color of temperance, clarity of mind. 

NATURE

 A.Seasons1.Spring: birth, new beginning  2.Summer: maturity, knowledge  3.Autumn: decline, nearing death, growing old  4.Winter: death, sleep, hibernation, or stagnation  5.Christmas season: birth, change for the better  6.Easter season: rebirth, enlightenment  7.Light: truth, safety, warmth, knowledge  8.Darkness: evil, ignorance, danger 

B.Trees  1.Apple: temptation, loss of innocence  2.Chestnut: foresight  3.Oak: strength, wisdom  4.Pear: blossoming, fleeting nature of life  5.Poplar: linked to the underworld, to pain, sacrifice, and grief, a funeral tree,symbolizes the regressive powers of nature  6.Sycamore: a sign of vanity and to climb it is to thrust in vain things  7.Pine: symbol of immortality because of its evergreen foliage 

C.Weeds : evil (hemlock, pigweed, etc), wildness/outcasts of society 

D.Flowers : beauty, youth, strength, gentleness  1.Anemone: transience  2.Chrysanthemums: solar symbol; represents perfection, an autumn flower  3.Rose: budding youth, romance, potential, fragility  4.Sunflower: Sturdiness5.Violet: shyness, something petite  6.Lily: evokes unlawful passion, temptation, the election of one’s choice

E.Water : washes away guilt, origin of life, regeneration, vehicle of cleansing 

F.River : fluidity of life, stream of life and death

G.Moon : changing and returning shape, feminine symbol 

H.Sun : source of light, heat and life; a masculine symbol 

.Cavern : the maternal womb. 

Mountain : places where heaven and earth meet; stability, safety, often symbolic of human pride. 

Rubies : represents good fortune; it was believed that they banished sorrow and wardedoff evil spirits.  Sapphires : contemplation, purity. 

Silver : relates to the moon, to water and the female principle; it may also symbolize theobject of all desires and the harm they cause  .

Gold : the perfect metal; a reflection of heavenly light; it suggest the sun-fertility, wealth,dominion; it is a male principle. 

Pearl : associated with water, they may be regarded as symbols of knowledge and wealth.

The Cracked House(part 1)

It was during the summer when I noticed the changes over the place on my way home after seven years of wandering. there besides the road which takes to  the town rests an old decaying building that can send you a gloomy ,and  yet, exciting expression in a mere glance. Obviously the passed time played its tricks on it.  what  hooked my attention earnestly, was the closed windows with rusty angles,it was peculiar to see a closed windows in this time of the year. kind of suspicion grew increasingly inside me after noticing the fissure which divides its first floor unequally and going down to the ground.the rusty windows were in the dominating side as if they were its  eyes looking at me with difficulty because of the falling sunshine on its upper part.at that moment I decided to stop ,attemting to remember this bizarre dwelling seven years ago .but all my recollection's efforts were in vain; a confusing notion possessed me.how could that happend?a newly built house has  became   dilapidated site ! and what are those gloomy,exciting feelings that are sent to me when I look at its face?While I was setting there examining it I observed a slicely open door in the far corner of the cracked side ,Ilooked at it with hesitation. I was afraid that this house will invite me in.I was afraid that my curiousity will not fail me but it did a really excellent work in alliance with my feet to persuade me to step toward that house or i don't know what it is.I barely started my first step after a while of reflecting and visualizing the worst of what would be hiding behind this door and cracked walls .It could be a nice ordinary family living there with a caring father and a loving mother ,my be a lovely child or children. Who couldn't afford the financial   budget to  renovate the house.Or I would find a serial killer hiding there with a  oppressive sufferance from his childhood which is interpreted on his scribbles on the inner walls ,and a souvenir from his victims as a trophies ,who would be very pleased to turn me to an  instrument that would  satisfy and settle his childhood pain.All those imaginations were running in my head as I walked heavily toward that door .The moment I reached it ,a car passed swiftly out of a sudden on the road behind me firing its horns madly as if it was warning me from approaching to that house.
That car's horn was enough to lance a cold shiver on my body in that sunny day and stop my imagination as I reached my hand to the door and throw a light polite knocks ........

DAWN BATTLE

The most what I love about my hometown "Baraki" is the dawn time battle .I wake up on the stillness of the dawn and lay in my bed waiting for the battle .the bigining of the new day would be declared by the  factories alarms ,it penetrate the old quiet buildings ,and  bypass the the empty rusty streets ,as if these sounds are defying the arrogance of the night stillness.the next thing I hear is the walkers steps which comes to my ears simultaneously with the gradual rising of the light ,and fainting of the darkness.this steps remarkably define the walkers gender and their situation ,it could tell me even the mark of the shoe they are wearing .while this battle at its peak comes the weapon that resolves  it for the morning's camp, against the night's stillness it's the train's whistle thus announcing the defeat of the night,who withdrew quietly promising to comeback for an other battle soon.......