Symbolism
can be very subjective and tricky to discern, and there might not be a single answer that
suffices to express the symbolic subtext of a work of literature. In any case, here are my own
thoughts concerning this question.
"Night Calls" is a story that is
very much about death and loss, with theand her father having had their lives reshaped by the
protagonists's mother's death. But in the aftermath of that , the heron was brought to the
sanctuary, and the father was tasked with rehabilitating it. In many respects, the heron is what
keeps her father at the sanctuary.
Symbolically, the heron ties together
themes of life and death as well as past and future. The heron is one of the last of its
species, but they hope that, if it finds a mate, then the species might be preserved. In its
early years at the sanctuary, it was a beacon for tourism, but by the time that the story takes
place, public interest in the bird has long since waned. It is also interesting that
it...
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