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Knife
Todd’s changing relationship to the knife that Ben gives him represents Todd’s coming-of-age journey, specifically how he comes to think about the relationship between maturity and violence. For much of the beginning of the…
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Journal
Todd’s Ma’s journal symbolizes knowledge that he needs for his journey to adulthood. This knowledge includes the dark truths that the people of his home settlement of Prentisstown hid from Todd while he…
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