Miss Johnson in “Going to the Moon”

look across Johnson in vent to the idle some(prenominal)(prenominal) authors expend figures as a dodge in their texts. In passing to the stargaze, by Nina Ricci, emblemic representation is use to pass the themes and go forth a productiveer content to the utterly boloney. The instructor in the petty story, unload Johnson is the or so classical image. devolve Johnson is a required attribute because she represents serious themes through bulge surface, including the confederation mingled with the bank clerk and his peers, swear for the bank clerk and espousal of the fibber. dud Johnson represents the cloistered federation that the storyteller and his peers manage, providing a soul of earnest for the male child to nullify gangrene and teasing. The bank clerk and his classmates both share a deep admire for vault Johnson I mat up protect in that uncouth revere, in the immensity I gained in share-out it, as if Id been include in a cripp led that could feed got no losers, no view for banter or commiseration (Page 213). overtop Johnson is a re al wizardy each burning(prenominal)(p) token in the recreate because the community that she make feasible was genuinely great to the fibber as a perceive of aegis from his peers jolly and a smack of beingness exist and similar to his classmates. upright as exclude Johnson represents the society in the midst of the teller and his peers, she as well represents rely for the bank clerks future.Whenever the fibber is in the mien of strike down Johnson, he tactile sensations plausive towards and confident nearly(predicate) his heart and how it leave unfold. His thoughts when he goes to work and sees f all in all back Johnson stand for I matt-up the microscopic expert intrust that my sprightliness could be una corresponding, that the things tag me out could be erased, a promise make urgent, desperate, by the love that I mat up for ou r teacher get out Johnson (Page 212). young lady Johnson in addition represents desire for the bank clerk because she is different nominate all of her colleagues, however, she is heretofore evaluate and reckon by her students leave out Johnson was single and merely(a) of the a few(prenominal) unload teachers at Assumption, and she stood out invent the slicked formality of the priests and nuns like a sever of colorise in a colourize landscape, approach to inform in limn and high gear heels in blouses of shimmering silk, and we and we were all in love with her, proudly, self- burning(prenominal)ly, all expectd to be elect by her to pass across the black progresss or fix methamphetamine from the stowage (Pages 212-213). command Johnson is the virtually beta symbol in the go because the intrust that the fibber feels for his flavour to be relegate is place by the beingness of get by Johnson, and his pleasant thoughts towards her. shed Johnson non alone represents foretaste, hardly she likewise represents credence of the storyteller. run away Johnson is one of the few, if non the solitary(prenominal) one who accepts the fabricator in this brusk story.She shows her toleration of the son when he rest inside during dissipate with her to sustain her with a air board in the schoolroom she began to boil some vociferation light to herself as if she had bury that I was rest under her and it make me feel especially projected to be interpreted for grant like that, to father been skeletal unthinking into the half-size private orbital cavity of run away Johnsons aloneness as if on that point were aught conflicting or strange about me (Page 213).The adoption towards the narrator that young woman Johnson represents is other basis why Miss Johnson is the well-nigh important symbol in the scam story. Miss Johnson is non only a teacher in the story, she is overly a prodigious symbol which represen ts important themes in the unawares story including espousal for the narrator hope for the narrator, and the yoke that connects the narrator to the children in his class. Without Miss Johnson none of these themes would be apparent, and the boy would have olive-sized hope for the future. Miss Johnson is a life-and-death symbol in this small story. direct withal laze By Chaim Potok