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Change And Symbolism In Doll Bones By Holly Black

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Introduction

“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”- Robin Sharma

Robin Sharma’s quote reflects onto the theme of the book ‘Doll Bones’, written by Holly Black. During the course of the story, the characters go through a lot of changes, and later on get through them. The author’s diction during the story helps the reader better understand the changes the characters are going through. Holly Black uses symbolism throughout the whole story to help get her theme across to the readers. During this companion book, you will learn about the characters, the story itself, theme, and how important the symbolism is.

Characters

Zach is a 12-year-old boy who is a protagonist in the story. He plays with dolls but wants to keep his hobby a secret; mainly because it’s embarrassing for him. He wants to keep his life with dolls and his life with friends separated. Zach also doesn’t have a very good relationship with his dad, and he seems to reject his dad as a parent. “Zach and his mom had been fine before …show more content…

When really the whole story is showing how the characters feelings are the antagonists of this story. The dolls symbolize their childhood, but the author of the story showed all of the emotions each character had with each other, the dolls and with their families. Some people in real life have a hard time losing their childhoods, but they later on learn to accept it. In the end of the story, the characters say that they are ready for the new chapter of their lives.
Alice kept pace with him. “I keep thinking about what Poppy said, about us all changing. We are, aren’t we?” (Black 242). Poppy snorted, but she didn’t pull away. “That’s not what she means. I’m just weird. We had this adventure together, but now we’re going to go back. And I’ll be the same, but you guys will keep changing.”
“Quests are supposed to change us.” Zach

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