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Post by eliasrust on Aug 19, 2017 15:17:09 GMT -5
At the end of the novel after the bombing happens, Maurie-Laure thinks that it is snowing and wonders why the snowflakes burn her. Are these snowflakes really ashes from the bombing? What do they symbolize?
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Post by sophieborah on Aug 20, 2017 13:41:34 GMT -5
The snowflakes are really ashes from the bombing, but despite everything Liesel has gone through, she is still young and innocent. This scene shows the readers that Liesel can find the beauty in the terrible world she lived in then.
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Post by Anna michie on Aug 22, 2017 17:04:35 GMT -5
the snow flakes are ashes. usually snow represents clean, pure, fresh, but in this situation its represents sadness and lonleyness and coldness. even though it burns
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Post by sarawittig on Aug 23, 2017 18:44:37 GMT -5
The snowflakes are really ashes from the bombings. They symbolize all the losses that Marie-Laure has had in her life such as the loss of her father, her home, Madame Manec, and countless other things. It symbolizes all the hurt and pain that she has endured with these losses.
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Post by roselyn on Aug 25, 2017 18:14:53 GMT -5
The snowflakes are actually the ashes from the bombings. They symbolize all the people and things she has lost. It also symbolizes all the good memories in the past that are now tainted with sadness.
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Post by ashleyyoon on Aug 26, 2017 0:24:37 GMT -5
Liesel was fourteen years old at the time, and had experienced contentment but grief during the years she lived in Molching. At the end of the novel, the readers find Liesel to be a soul, Death had not yet engulfed on Himmel Street. The author intended for the readers to witness the ashes through Liesel's point of view. Although Liesel recognized the fact that they were ashes from the wreckage, she saw them as snowflakes, symbolizing the satisfaction and comfort that the street had inserted into her life. The "snowflakes" soon melted into reality as they "burned" into her skin,scarring her with the flame and malice the war had brought her.
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Post by alexhammond on Aug 27, 2017 22:35:30 GMT -5
The snowflakes were actually ashes from the bombing. As they rained on her it symbolized all the things that were once good which had now been altered in her mind. When she thinks about the amazing people she was surrounded by, her first thought of them is death and/or abandonment. The snowflakes represent all that had gone wrong, they 'burn her' similar to the emotional injuries she had endured.
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Post by alexhammond on Aug 27, 2017 22:35:42 GMT -5
The snowflakes were actually ashes from the bombing. As they rained on her it symbolized all the things that were once good which had now been altered in her mind. When she thinks about the amazing people she was surrounded by, her first thought of them is death and/or abandonment. The snowflakes represent all that had gone wrong, they 'burn her' similar to the emotional injuries she had endured.
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