There are many times I have a read a story and never really understood the point that the author was trying to get across, and with the reason in that was I was not able to really see the symbolism in the story. When the reader digests a story, they think only what the eye saw to read, but when you really look deeper into a story, and put in a little more thought, you'll see that certain actions, colors, pictures, have a whole other meaning.
When reading more of the Native American based stories, colors have a huge take on what point they are trying to get across. The color of the sky. moon, even the color symbolizes what emotion to feel. In the story the yellow woman, have you ever really wondered why the woman was chosen to be called "The Yellow Woman," and not blue,pink or green? is portrays a significance in the story and plays a huge role as to why she is the way she is. Within the portraits that native aemericans draw, everything has a significance, such as the clouds within rain and lightening shows renewal, and the start toa new beginning. When you look at old portraits of native american art you see rainbows blood, circles, squares, ovals. They all show something whether you can see it or not. The six main colors that are used for all Native American paintings are red, black, blue, green,yellow and white. They have a simple meaning of life, that shows many actions, such as for example, the yellow signifies sunshine,light, refreshness just like the sun, as to where red signifies, blood,hurt, pain,earth, war. When reading the yellow woman, as you kind of getting a better understanding of the main character you can understand as to why they chose yelloe instead of red, green or blue. Yellow shows the light, the other side of the tunnel type of thing. When the woman is in the wild with the man she is transformed, whether she can feel it or not, she left a very innocent closed off woman then came back as someone with new insight on mind, and views.It was a very drastic tranformation.
Colors show more and have more than what people can see or give credit for. Even today in this century, colors are used to signify pictures, even if its just as simple as the stop on the corner of your street, or the the green light you pass to get to work. Those colors were chosen for a specific reason.
