"Mask of the red death assignment

Darryn Garner

Greens

10/29/10

The “Mask of the Red Death” Thesis Paper

            The first color room in the Mask of the read death was blue. The blue room in the mask of the red death represents things like babies, happiness, and young. The age group around the color blue is the age of birth. The blue room comes before all the other rooms because of what it symbolizes. The blue room rises first from the east just like the sun. In Edgar Allen Poe’s story the blue room is the opposite of the black room, which is death.  Blue was the beginning and life of the story it mentioned birth and was the first room in the story for that reason.

            In the story, blue was the first color room introduced in the mask of the red death. In the story the blue room represented birth. and that is the first stage of life, this is why it was first room. It doesn’t really show much progression in life because it is the first stage of life, but I think just birth itself is a progression.

            The color that was given to me was my life started out on the color blue. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland and the oldest child in my family. I have had the chance to witness birth, when my aunt Yani had her beautiful baby Jordan. It was a feeling I had never felt, I had never seen a baby just born. So tiny, innocent, and small. I have three siblings and I was able to be a part of their life and birth as well but I was a lot younger. When life starts, or a baby is born its eyes are super small, its hands, feet, head, and arms, everything was small. I think birth is a great thing. Bringing another life into the earth does bring happiness and joy. I only wish that my mom had footage of me interacting when I was real young. They have pictures, but no footage. Blue in the story and in life represents a fresh start, a new beginning, and a new way of looking at things. I really like to write about this color room because it is the start of life.