Pairing Knife Essay

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ENGL 1302 02/13/2011 Interpretation of The Pairing Knife and Popular Mechanics Symbolism is central to our understanding of the resolution of conflict in both stories because it gives the reader the visual concept of the and details of the story. The symbolic representation in the Pairing Knife is the knife and in Popular Mechanics is the weather, meaning they are both about turmoil and conflict. My idea of the similar theme is experiencing intense passion in a relationship during times of conflict and how your lives can change so quickly, like the weather can change quickly into dark, cold and violent extremes and a knife can change an object quickly, violent representation. They both represent a dark and dreary atmosphere. The knife is represents splitting and cutting of ties. As the couple argues during love-making and he becomes furious and questions his relationship and pushes the dishes to floor knocking the knife under the refrigerator. They make up and make love and proceed to clean up and miss the knife. When they find the knife they remember a time of mania in the relationship when you love someone and the passion we all have. She put the knife back under the refrigerator to remind her of the time of intense passion and anger. The weather represents the extreme and rigid atmosphere. As it states "But is was getting dark inside too." the mood was harsh and cold like the weather outside. The weather can change so quickly and cause damage like the father changed his mind, instead of taking the picture of the baby he wanted to take the baby to cause harm or damage to his child's mother. His sudden need to create a violent conflict over the child and his physical actions create the intense passion and anger in a relationship. We had eaten a large dinner and had drunk many glasses of
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