This Tender Land

This Tender Land

by

William Kent Krueger

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This Tender Land Symbols

Tornado

Tornadoes represent unstoppable forces that are indifferent to the extreme suffering they have the capacity to cause. After a tornado kills Mrs. FrostEmmy’s mother and the woman who would have saved Odie

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Harmonica

Odie’s harmonica symbolizes the longing and hope for a better world that a person can find through creative mediums such as songs and stories. The harmonica is Odie’s sole inherited possession from his deceased…

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