Something that is itself and also stands for something else—as a flag is a piece of colored cloth that stands for country. Some symbols are universal or cultural: flags, water, plants, certain colors. Others are more specific to a certain context. (For instance, in Do the Right Thing, a Brooklyn Dodgers home jersey with number 42—the white jersey with red and blue trim worn by Jackie Robinson, the first black to play baseball in the major leagues—can represent both a history of racial oppression and an instance of historic integration.) Finally, some symbols acquire meaning only within the story itself; outside the story, they do not convey the same meaning. These symbols accumulate their meaning through repetition, through the value placed on an object or action by a character, or through their comparison with other objects, actions, or events.