Symbolism helps create meaning.

What does warmth symbolize in literature. By eating the rabbits raw the Tethered sustain themselves and their dream. And they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned. It is most often used to represent nature healing health youth or fertility since it is such a dominant color in nature.

In literature they are cursed through a pact with the Devil parentage or because they have a psychiatric illness lycanthropy. Just as water and ice symbolize how dead and frozen Melinda feels warmth and sunlight represent moments in which she feels as if she might be alive inside after all. More than that they symbolize the way in which they aim to seek their rebirth.

Fire consumes illuminates and brings warmth but can also bring pain and death. Fire is one of the four main elements found on Earth. Symbolism is used in literature when one thing is meant to represent something else.

The meanings of symbols vary from writer to writer and literature to literature and same is the case with the symbol of night time. The sacrifice of a children. Throughout the novel there are times when water comes into play after an internal conflict is resolved to represent a positive change in a character a rebirth or renewal of spirit.

For example night time can be representation of serenity and calmness for one writer but can be a source of evil and unrest for another writer. Apart from the above points the Bible also sheds some lights over different topic through fire personification. The children have expected seeing the sun to change their lives.

From life and death to cleansing and freedom Water symbolizes many things in literature. Also in literature religious symbols are usually no protection whereas for example a pentagram was used in the film An American Werewolf in London. The most classic example of a rabbit as a symbol in literature however is found in Alice in Wonderland.