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America and I: "Light” and “Dark” For this final paper I chose to take a closer look at the writing of Anzia Yezierska in “America and I”. I decided to examine the symbolism used by Yezierska in this piece. Yezierska tells the story of her struggle to ....

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.... images, is able to present a clearer picture of the emotions that should be interpreted from the story. Even from the very beginning of the story Yezierska uses images of light and dark to describe her coming from Russia to America. She describes her hopes for America as “sunlight burning through my darkness”. In this instance she has used light and dark to emphasize her feelings. Sunlight is used to symbolize the hopes and dreams of a better life while darkness is used to illustrate the hopelessness and disparity she felt in Russia. Furthermore, she depicts the people of Russia as “colors that never saw light”. In saying this she reemph ....