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Symbolism of the Yellow Raft in Yellow Raft in blue Water

ow raft. It seems to me she has everything, and I hate to say it but there are times I would trade places. Id drop my uniform and underneath would be this girl right off a magazine cover with no excuses to make and no lies to tell. While Im working, I pretend were friends, and try to overhear as much about her as I can. (P93)Rayona is trying to flee reality in anyway possible; she even claims a discarded postcard is from her well off parents.Rayona can only run for so long, and soon the truth catches up to her, Evelyn, while wearing a yellow shirt, discovers Rayonas secret about the postcard. Im not that hard for Evelyn to find. Im stopped, halfway down the trail, with my eyes fixed on the empty yellow raft floating in the blue waters of Bearpaw Lake. Somewhere in my mind Ive decided that if I stare at it hard enough it will launch me out of my present troubles. (P104) While gazing into the yellow, Rayona discovers that even though she wants to take the cowardly way out of her sticky situation, she must be strong and go the long route. While Christine is sharing her story, the color of yellow appears again. At first, it represents failure and cowardliness, but later the color symbolizes complete peace within her. As a young child she was the one who the whole neighborhood looked up too, Christine would perform any dare and was always the center of attention. Until one day when dared to cross a natural bridge, made of yellow rock. Christine became paralyzed with fear halfway though the crossing, and had to be rescued to by Lee, her younger brother. I grabbed his skinny arms with all my strength and felt his sun-warmed skin tense beneath my fingers. I smelled the yellow dust in his hair and the Juicy Fruit in his mouth. (P148) This event appears to be a turning point or reversal of roles in the lives of Christine and Lee. Lee soon became the most popular, and the pride of the community, while Christine was left to live a l...

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