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Subaru Brat

This object symbolizes a complete renunciation of materialism. Shortly before Knight entered the woods to begin a solitary life of his own creation, he asked his brother to co-sign for a loan to help him buy this object. At the time, he had really wanted this object, but once he decided to disappear into the forest, he abandoned this object, where Finkel says it might still be today.

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This object symbolizes the harm that Knight did to people over the course of his 27-year period of stealing to survive. Though he was always careful to avoid taking valuable items, he did not consider the sentimental attachments people may have had to the objects he was stealing. When he steals this object and the narration is depicting Knight's point of view as he does so, the narrator carefully points out that he is taking it in...

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