Falcons

Falcons are symbolic of the way a pregnancy can place a woman at risk, and they are also emblematic of the novel’s pro-choice stance. The Tiny Pregnant Woman cannot terminate her falcon pregnancy because of restrictions her religion places on her, but there is a high likelihood she could die from this pregnancy, and in fact she does, because the baby falcons are likely to peck at her from the inside. These birds represent the danger that pregnancy can present to a woman.

Our Town

The play, Our Town, symbolizes multiple themes in the novel. First, it symbolizes one person’s coming to terms with death and moving to a different life as Emily must do in the play. While Lewis and Angela are not confronting their physical death in the novel, they are confronting the death of their humanity. They must say goodbye to...