Symbolism Literary Element Novels & Stories

He had gone strangely focused the second we entered the car, helping me revise important points calmly while occasionally testing me with questions. “What was the symbolic meaning behind the ending scene in Hollow Graves?” he asked while flipping through another card. I rubbed my tired eyes. “The river represented guilt and rebirth.” “Good.” Luca nodded approvingly before handing me another sticky note. “Themes?” “Isolation, grief, and—” “—psychological decay,” Leonardo finished from the front seat casually. Both Luca and I looked at him in surprise. Leonardo kept his eyes on the road. “What?” he asked flatly. “You’ve repeated that answer six times already.”

Would he be saddened to know that in school most children hated these lessons? The last page toward the back was symbolism another area that kids typically didn’t like learning about. I couldn’t wait to see if he’d ever use it or maybe he never would. Then again… some of the way he had spoken to me had been poetic. I was a candle on it’s last morsel of wick. His gazes at the stars. Maybe he had been using this and I just was too blind to see it.