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Symbolism in //Ruby Moon// and //Stolen//. -colour red -caged bird -cul de sac -the doll
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-beds -suitcases - jumpers - golden spotlight etc

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aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Where are your capital letters???? Please fix this!! hidden symbolism is present in both //Ruby Moon// and //Stolen (Italics for the title of texts and please use capital letters)//. one of ruby moon's main symbols would be the "Ruby doll". this doll symbolises the missing child ruby moon. the doll and ruby are alike because they both have gone missing and they are identical. throughout the story, ray and sylvie moon try to put together the peices of the story and the doll (make this connection between the puzzle of the mystery and the pieces of the doll being put together) to find out what happened to ruby. who has the missing peice of the doll? and do they have the missing peice of the story? the dolls head finally turns up but the end of the story does not .(don't take a new line within a paragraph) the dress's (which dress? be clear) meaning in the story changes throughout the play. T o one character it represents an innocent child, but to another it represents sex and desire. For example, when Veronica says "if you walk down the street in a little red dress your playing with fire". the dress would (be more positive in your use of language. Be sure about the statements you are making.) make be a very important visual effect if the play were to be staged as a production. (you MUST assume you are writing about a performance ALWAYS. We study performance and not text) at the end of the play sylvie also wears the red dress in order to become the child that ray and sylvie are missing, which is a disturbing end to the story which makes the audience make their own conclusions about the play. (can you suggest some of these conclusions?) the colour red in the play can be used to inform the audience of things such as danger, anger, death, sexual desire etc the constant referal to fairytales in ruby moon. (this sentence is unfinished) it starts off " it begins like a fairy tale" suggest that there is nothing wrong in the lives of the moon's. but reading (NO! Watching!!!!) on we can see there is much more to the story. sylvie acts like a child and constantly ask ray to read from the fairy tale book. (what is this communicating about their relationship??) another factor that adds to the fairy tale is the fact that ruby moon was dressed in red dress on the way to her grandmothers house, doesnt this remind you of another well know fairy tale? (try not to write informally) there is also a wizard in this story which is a famous fairy tale character. this wizard also claims he knows how to do magic which also present in many fairy tales world wide. the suit cases in stolen can represent the lifestyle that the characters live. they constantly move and have no stability in their lives. constant change.symbols in stolen represent experiences and emtions which help the actors to connect with the audience on an emotional level.

Jodie - you have a lot of work to do in polishing this paragraph. Please make the above changes and I will have another look. - Mrs Lyons