The Red Convertible

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Tyquan Bethea Red Convertible By: Louise Erdrich In Louise Erdrich’s short story, The Red Convertible,” the author displays a relationship of two brothers, Lyman and Henry. She uses symbolism to show the ups and downs of Henry. Who brings home the traumatizing effects of the Vietnam War. Which has its effects on his younger brother Lyman. But you wouldn’t get this from just reading title. You’d think like the average person and think that maybe this about the summer time and how it’s going to end happily ever after. The story goes like any other short story but in some points of it the author can get you confused with added material but if you read and listen in close detail, you’ll realize why it sounds like a pre-teen wrote the story. That’s because it’s in first person point-of-view. The author wrote it this way as a way of giving you a vivid description of what’s being portrayed, throughout the story. The First symbolism I drew a connection with was that the red convertible its self was a way of being the relationship that the two brothers had. I got this connection by thinking that a relationship is something that two people put time and effort in. the car was something they put time in by going everywhere they wanted. The effort came by the two wanting to be around each other all the time. They also held the car in high regard by keeping it nice, neat and clean all the time because they cared about it. While reading the story I realized that once I got to the end of it. The author had told you about the way Lyman’s brother dies at the beginning and goes into detail about how. The author does this because it makes you think about what does she mean when in the text it says. “his boots filled up with water on a windy night and he bought out my share.” (The Red Convertible by Louise

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