Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from Cosmicomics

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Zinc Cliffs appears in The Distance of the Moon - This is the best place to get to the moon when it comes close enough to the Earth.

Moon-Milk appears in The Distance of the Moon - The sea creatures and plant materials that fly up to the moon when it gets close enough to Earth become trapped in the moon's crevices and ferment into this substance, which the story's characters go up to the moon to harvest.

The Moon appears in The Distance of the Moon - This comes close enough to...
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