The lines from this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" that use symbolism to indicate that death is approaching are:
"There was light and now there is darkness. I was here and now I'm going there!"
Here, the author uses the symbols of light and dark to represent life and death. Where there is light there is life, whereas darkness means to close his eyes forever and fall into an eternal slumber.
Tolstoy also uses the references "here" and "there" to refer to life on earth and the afterlife. Ivan feels like his time in this side is ending, and that he is finally going "there," to the afterworld.
Answer:
There are many signs of symbolism in this story, such as the color red and how the Scarlet Ibis is symbolic to Doodle. First of all, the color red symbolizes blood, danger and death. Doodle's brother mentions the "knot of cruelty born by love, much as blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction..."(172).May 14, 2005
Explanation:
It's a compound sentence because it has 'and'.
