Underground Pool

The underground pool is a symbol of escape. The underground pool realm allows its swimmers a place to retreat from their chaotic and unpredictable lives above ground. The pool is physically sequestered from the urban society above ground. It is also dictated by neat guidelines and regulations that grant the swimmers a sense of calm, order, and comfort. In this way, the author uses the pool to represent the more utopian promises of a free society.

Belavista

Belavista is a symbol of erasure. Although the facility promises to care for its residents, the Belavista community takes no interest in the individual residents' former lives, present needs, or future conditions. Instead, Belavista is a location that effectively sequesters the old, the confused, and the dying from the collective in order to usher them out of society and towards death.

Pearl Necklaces

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