Ruby
Importance of rain
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Rain occurs later in the novel, coming down to cover both Ephram and Ruby. The rain is more than a weather pattern in the story. It is important to the future of Ephram and Ruby as they move beyond the past. The rain, symbolically, washes them clean of sin and of the past. It allows them to look to the future.