Skill: Making Inferences about Symbols
Symbol (n.) Something that represents something else, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
The chart below contains minor symbols in the novel The Bean Trees. What inferences about what the symbol represents can you make?
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Symbol |
Page# |
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Paper dolls |
138 |
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Rooster crowing at night |
140 |
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Mosaic tile cross |
146 |
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Woman with cardboard box |
149 |
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Earthquake under ocean (tsunami) |
154 |
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Rainstorm |
160-3 |
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Toads in desert |
163-4 |
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Chasing sparrow out of
house |
167-8 |
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Night-blooming Cereus |
185-7 |
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Night-Blooming Cereus |
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