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The Girl’s Book
The girl’s favorite book, Swallows and Amazons, represents the comforting, and sometimes terrifying, potential of imagination. The girl keeps the book near her, sleeping next to it and holding it while trying to…
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The Trumpet Case
The girl’s father’s open trumpet case symbolizes his relative creative freedom, particularly when compared to the mother’s tidied-away sewing materials. When the girl roams the apartment in the middle of the night…
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