Finny dons a pink shirt as his emblem, even though his peers might find it offensive because of of LGBTQ connotation (which is an anachronism for our novel…such a term did not exist in America in the1940s). Why does Finny don the shirt as his emblem? What is he trying to adopt when he wears the shirt to Mr. Patch Withers’s soiree?

The following article describes some emblems that are associated with companies, institutions, cities, sports teams, even comic book heroes. What makes for an excellent emblem? Later this quarter you will design your own emblem, and the following definition(s) will be useful for that project: