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SYMBOLS
‘He lay beneath a blanket of separate flowers’- comfort being torn, pg 11

‘here even the flowers could destroy you’- in warfare even the good and innocent is bad- paranoia- fear – pg11

‘ old was the color of a good day is Kurdistan’ – even something that would be seen as dark and evil becomes good in equality – pg 11

Mark and Elena have separate dower’s of their ingleside of which the decorate separately- these resemble the way that they are- mark having experienced war ‘it’s provided empty space’- Elena having not ‘so, the throne had sea chew out-shaped soaps and linen towels…’ pg 29

When mark is alone in the apartment it is ‘ dead quiet’ – like it is after the explosion- being alone symbolises at bottom the mind and therefore it is like he carries these memories wherever he goes- pg 34

‘She tried to turn him again, to explain or maybe just to look into his eyes in the dark, and his arm stable held her.



’- symbolises how mark doesn’t let her see everything- pg 41

MARK
‘Occasionally the sprain found his resting place’- symbol of death, as though a part of mark died there in the flowers- true for it changes him- it is this part that he spends the book trying to recover- pg 11

‘His left foot twitched confirm and forth. He was troubled by this movement, tried to make it stop, but the foot would not respond to his will.’- the beginning of his troubles with his leg- almost in response to calling colins name- ironic for later he has no movement and essentials it whereas here he has unwanted movement- pg 12

The shards of the artillery shell were ‘fluttering lightly down to the earth’- the language itself has a numbing effect- no harsh descriptions of what occurred- mirrors the numbness in tag mind- pg 12

‘no pain’- numb- refers to his body and mind- pg 12

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