"When the children awoke, the night had fallen. The forest was no longer the peaceful, leafy place they had wandered through that afternoon" (Rosnay 107).
Patterns in Literature
Often in literature, you will notice a lot of morning or spring like imagery when children are mentioned. It symbolizes new beginnings and innocence. In the particular sentences that I found, I noticed that this was not the case. Instead of the time of day be morning and the season being spring, there was night and autumn imagery. I think the word children symbolizes the innocence of the girls, while night symbolizes a symbolic death (perhaps of their innocence), and autumn symbolizes the maturity that these two girls have had to develop. The fact that all three of these imageries were brought up in just a couple sentences could symbolize the disorder these two girls were dealing with at the time.
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