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Clock

This object symbolizes routine and structure. During the investigation into Frank's murder, many different witnesses are interviewed within the confines of the small town. Nearly every witness has a certain and continual relationship with this object, which helps the police piece together the timeline of events leading up to Frank's murder and mutilation. This object and its association with certainty will soon be upended by a body of conflicting evidence, all of which flies in the face of this object's logical nature.

Cantaloupe

This object symbolizes the inevitability of the unexplained. Once Ralph has begun to listen to Jeannie in terms of the possibility that supernatural events do indeed occur in the world, he tries to get Bill Samuels, the district attorney, to move in that theoretical direction. With this goal in mind, he tells Bill Samuels a story involving this object and hundreds of maggots. He...

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