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A 3 page paper which examines the theme of the grass harp in Truman Capote’s novel “The Grass Harp.” No additional sources cited.
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perhaps considered outcasts in their community, and ordinary people who live within the community. In this story three individuals, misfits of some kind, remain in a tree for quite some
time and encounter many different people passing by. It is a work that studies human nature, and the human condition in many respects, utilizing nature to illustrate the oneness of
humanity and the world around us. The following paper examines the significance of the grass harp in the novel. The Grass Harp
In the beginning of the novel, before the reader knows anything of the story itself or the characters, the narrator introduces the notion and symbol of the grass harp:
"A field of high Indian grass that changes color with the seasons; go to see it in the fall, late September, when it has gone red as sunset, when scarlet
shadows like firelight breeze over it and the autumn winds strum on its dry leaves sighing human music; a harp of voices" (Capote 9).
Such an introduction to the novel, and to the grass harp, conjures up images of nature and the power and beauty of nature. There is a sense of
sadness perhaps about the image, for it is presented in the season of autumn which is, for some, a time of dying as nature sheds its leaves and its life
for winter, the true death from a symbolic perspective. It seems, perhaps, that only in the autumn can the sadness and the voices be truly felt and heard through the
grass harp. The grass harp is then further detailed as the narrator states how he was asked, "Do you hear? it is
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