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Xander Dangerfield
Wings, Birds, and Eggs
In The Theory of Flight, objects associated with flight—such as wings, birds, and eggs—represent characters’ individual aspirations, which can bolster or damage their relationships with others. The novel’s prologue mentions that a woman named…
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Sunflowers
In The Theory of Flight, sunflowers symbolize the history that its characters share despite their disparate individual personalities, demographics, and commitments. The colonizer father of white heiress Beatrice Beit-Beauford plants sunflowers on the estate…
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