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Title: all the light motif help
Post by: S_L1003 on September 12, 2021, 08:22:51 am

Hi!

I'm doing all the light this year and I'm just wondering whether I could say that at the end of the novel children are a motif celebrating those who move on from the war? Like Marie-Laure and Jutta both have children but Volkheimer and Frederick's mum are still kind of caught in the age of the war?

Thanks!

Title: Re: all the light motif help
Post by: TSEtuition on September 15, 2021, 01:33:14 pm

Quote from: S_L1003 on September 12, 2021, 08:22:51 am

Hi!

I'm doing all the light this year and I'm just wondering whether I could say that at the end of the novel children are a motif celebrating those who move on from the war? Like Marie-Laure and Jutta both have children but Volkheimer and Frederick's mum are still kind of caught in the age of the war?

Thanks!

Great interpretation! I'm not sure if I would use the word 'motif' in this case - motifs are usually repetitive in nature, and it's usually a repeating idea throughout the body of a text. I suggest you use words like 'embodiment', 'symbol', 'manifestation', or 'realisation' instead (depending on the sentence, obviously!)