yellow bird
what does it mean? why is it important? where is it located in the book?
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The yellow bird is a symbol, “a warrior angel” that “[is] ‘taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower’” (Capote 93)
This symbol is illustrated by Capote throughout the text in Perry's nightmares; it intervenes when he finds himself besieged by monsters and saves him; he sees the bird as an angel and sometimes perceives it as Jesus drawing him into the light. It is a symbol of escape, a way to move past problems that seem insurmountable. The color of the bird (yellow) is said to represent light and even freedom.
"Throughout his life – as a child, poor and meanly treated, as a foot-loose youth, as an imprisoned man – the yellow bird, huge and parrot-faced, had soared across Perry’s dream, an avenging angel who savaged his enemies or, as now, rescued him in moments of mortal danger." (Capote 266)
This symbol is illustrated by Capote throughout the text in Perry's nightmares; it intervenes when he finds himself besieged by monsters and saves him; he sees the bird as an angel and sometimes perceives it as Jesus drawing him into the light. It is a symbol of escape, a way to move past problems that seem insurmountable. The color of the bird (yellow) is said to represent light and even freedom.
"Throughout his life – as a child, poor and meanly treated, as a foot-loose youth, as an imprisoned man – the yellow bird, huge and parrot-faced, had soared across Perry’s dream, an avenging angel who savaged his enemies or, as now, rescued him in moments of mortal danger." (Capote 266)
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