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"The Welcome Table" an Analytical View
"The Welcome Table" by Alice Walker encompasses two themes that are both old and new. Racism and religion are addressed separately yet focus remains equally concentrated throughout the text. "Identifying the theme in a piece of literature is not a summary of the plot; it is not a statement about a dominant impression or mood; it is not a moral or proposition; it is not the attitude of the writer," (Clugston, 7.1, 2010). Narrated in third person, this is a story of an old women and the world around her. What sets the story apart from others is the personality that takes shape from an omniscient point of view.
The circumstance of the story identifies with the theme characteristics through symbology. Reoccurring color symbolism provides an important role when converging the plot and character development. From the beginning, the tone is set with the description of the old woman sitting outside an all white church.
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English: Normal Heights, neighborhood of the mid-c...As the reader transforms the setting to the imagination a combination of symbols are provided enhancing emotions and bringing comprehension to the story. This provides a connection between the writer, the characters and the themes.
The old woman's eyes deliver the first of many symbols within the story; "there was a dazed and sleepy look in her aged blue-brown eyes," (Clugston, 3.1, 2010). Here the reader draws upon the color blue as it symbolizes peacefulness; the brown represents endurance of time depicted in the face of the old woman. Despite racy remarks she maintains devoted to her faith and dignity. Fleeting emotions are tense; the congregation feels "a fear of the black and the old," (Clugston, 3.1, 2010). Colors provide many associations, here the word black represents more than skin but that of evil. The writer elaborates on...