what can a pencil symbolize?

Question

for english homework.
can it symbolize more than writing? perhaps art or ideas?

please also explain your answer!

Answer 1

A pencil could symbolize growing up. When you start out you haven't done anything (or in the pencil's case, written anything) but as time grows on so do your accomplishments and mistakes.

Answer 2

Will this help? FIRST SENT 2nD Paragraph

I have no idea

Many years ago, I recall seeing a newspaper advertisement showing a young boy, his hands on a table as he looked intently at four particular objects evenly spaced in front of him: a pencil, key, ballot, and Bible. A caption underneath the picture read: "Half the world is trying to destroy these four symbols and what they represent." These simple objects represent our privileges and freedoms as Americans.

The pencil symbolizes work and ambition. Of course, today the com-puter has superseded the pencil. Nevertheless, the two are the same in essence, even if technically different. Success in any age is impossible without the ability to write. We can't communicate without words to translate our thoughts, and pencils, in whatever form, are the tools of the trade.

Fortunately, pencils are equipped with erasers. No one is perfect. Mistakes happen. However, in all our fumbling, we can be thankful that there is a purpose to our striving and that ideas, though written on paper, translate into real-life deeds and achievements. A pencil can be a very ordinary sort of tool. Without it, however, we are lost. With it, we can write our name on the pages of time. With gratitude, we recog-nize the Mayflower Compact, which the Pilgrims si

Answer 3

The pencil symbolizes work and ambition. Of course, today the computer has superseded the pencil. Nevertheless, the two are the same in essence, even if technically different. Success in any age is impossible without the ability to write. We can't communicate without words to translate our thoughts, and pencils, in whatever form, are the tools of the trade.

Answer 4

i think that a pencil could symbolize knowledge or freedom because using a pencil you can write whatever you want and express your feelings how you want to.

Answer 5

I was thinking more along the lines of "the pen is mightier than the sword" meaning that written words can destroy a person's life worse than a sword.

Answer 6

here's something to think about why is the number one pencil called #2

Answer 7

a pencil can symbolize getting to use notes on a quiz, cause you had a pencil to take notes!! i've went to school with no pecil.....YOU NEED A PENCIL!!! i lost real good notes!!

Answer 8

Truth being erased and re-written over.

Answer 9

it symbolizes that people make mistakes, hence the eraser