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Literature Symbols

Symbols, objects, tools, and weapons from from Literature

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The green light The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The letter "A" The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conch shell The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A scar shaped like lightning Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg, which are on a billboard The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
An apple that gets stuck in the main character's back The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Albatross The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Mad Woman in the attic Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
a briefcase carried by the main character by the white town leaders The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
a clock with no hands The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
typewriters used by monkeys that type infinitely and accidentally typed a perfect script of Hamlet The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
a painting that grows old The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
mechanical hounds Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
a shrunken head, that one of the supporting characters tries to sell Moby Dicky by Herman Melville
a severed pig's head, covered in flies The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Aleppo Carpet, which levitates when a character drinks hot chocolate One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
an everlasting gobstopped Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
the golden snitch Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Voight-Kampff Machine that checks your eyes to see if you are a human Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? by Phillip K. Dick
The Memory Chair The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Marauder's Map Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Palantir: some sort of magic sphere that lets you see across long distances and communicate telepathically The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Subtle Knife, the Golden Compass, the Alethiometer, the Amber Spyglass His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman
1,369 light bulbs The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Gold pince-nez: delicate glasses The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bed of nails The Odyssey by Homer
Iron bed 1984 by George Orwell
a bottle that says "drink me" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
a certain piece of oak furniture for hanging coats. It has mothballs in it The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
the black monolith 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
the One Ring / the Ring of Power / One Ring to Rule Them All The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
Yorick's skull Hamlet by William Shakespeare
the golden ticket Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Sorting Hat Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
the glass slipper Cinderella by Charles Perrault
sting, Anduril, Narsil (swords) The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Vorpal Sword Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
the Time Turner Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
the Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Invisibility Cloak. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
a 1960 Ford Anglia 105E Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
a yellow or cream colored 1920s Rolls Royce The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
the Nautilus 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
the Pequod Moby Dick
the Heart of Gold (spaceship) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1949 Hudson Commodore On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Hispaniola Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
the Argo the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (Jason's ship, carries the Argonauts)
the Jolly Roger Peter and Wendy (Peter Pan) by J.M. Barrie
Riptide (sword) Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
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