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Budgies

These colorful birds connote life and hope, as well as the fragility of the same.

Candle

This implement gives limited light and warmth for a limited time only.

Coat

This garment serves as a source of comfort and a means of retaining life.

Jeju

This island, a setting of the novel, was the site of genocidal actions in the past.

Juk

This food is a commonplace and serves as a source of comfort.

Mandarin

This fruit makes up much of the local harvest and thus of the economies in which characters and their families participate.

Migraine

This medical condition afflicts the narrator, constraining action.

Seoul

This capital city, a setting of the novel, may be taken as synecdoche for the nation over which it presides.

Snow

This precipitation imposes quiet where it falls and hinders travel, confining action.

Tree trunks

These remnants of plants suggest lives past...

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