Throughout the book their have been many symbols that the author uses to describe characters and setting. Symbols like the radio, light, the sea of flames, and the model (Saint-Malo) all hold the same purpose in the novel. The common purpose that all of these symbols hold is to describe characters and setting. The beauty of those symbols is that they don’t necessarily correlate, yet they all serve one purpose, which is to mean more than what it is. For example, a radio is a simple object that can be used to listen to music or news, if it were a symbol, the radio could of been seen as an object that expresses hope and desires. However, besides from those symbols, their is also one that is rather interesting, which is food. For the author, and potentially the reader, food is simply something to eat. In the novel however, food is used as a symbol.
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For the entirety of the book the author has used food symbolically to describe characters and setting. Although food is present in every story, mentioned or not, there are moments in the novel when the author emphasizes food. Typically, the author does this by making characters describe the food, which as an end result describes the characters emotionally and/or physically. One example of physical description can be seen when Marie and her father finally arrived to Saint-Malo after a long and tiring journey from Paris. According to the text, “A jar of cool, sweet water in front of her. Each sip a blessing.” (Doerr, 120). In this quote the text is stating that Marie was drinking the water as if it were a “blessing” to her. She had just arrived to Saint-Malo, and her, drinking water as if it were a “blessing”, shows the extent of how tired she was.
For the entirety of the book the author has used food symbolically to describe characters and setting. Although food is present in every story, mentioned or not, there are moments in the novel when the author emphasizes food. Typically, the author does this by making characters describe the food, which as an end result describes the characters emotionally and/or physically. One example of physical description can be seen when Marie and her father finally arrived to Saint-Malo after a long and tiring journey from Paris. According to the text, “A jar of cool, sweet water in front of her. Each sip a blessing.” (Doerr, 120). In this quote the text is stating that Marie was drinking the water as if it were a “blessing” to her. She had just arrived to Saint-Malo, and her, drinking water as if it were a “blessing”, shows the extent of how tired she was.