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Other elements that are present in this novel include symbols
and metaphors. Symbols are the use of some unrelated
idea to represent something else. Metaphors are direct comparisons made between
characters and ideas. There many symbols and metaphors used by the author such
as:
1. The flyers symbolize Bud’s path to his father.
2. The
suitcase represents Bud’s only link to his dead mother.
3. He likes checking
it to see if anything has changed since he last looked in his suitcase. It is
like he is sure there is a message for him there somewhere, but he doesn’t have
a decoder ring to read it. The idea of a decoder ring makes the items in.......
.........23. Bud begins to arrange his Momma’s old room to make it his own: he puts her smiling picture on the dressing table and remakes his bed with his old blanket. He takes all the other treasures in the sax case, except the stone that says Flint on it, and gives them to Mr. Calloway. Once he returns to his room, he thumbtacks the picture of his mother on the broken down pony among the horse pictures already there. These activities are a metaphor for Bud letting go of his mother and finding the place he really belongs.
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