Sunny's Pebbles, Stones, and Rocks

When Sunny was a child, he collected pebbles, stones, rocks, and sometimes pieces of gravel. He would put a piece or two in his pocket from time to time. Once, he slept with a pebble under his pillow. The pebbles, stones, and rocks he kept as his own were something concrete he could hold on to. Sunny had a disheveled childhood, with parents and paternal grandparents who acted like they didn't love him, so to have something of his own that he could hold on to was important.

Pebbles, stones, rocks, and gravel are all hard, almost unbreakable substances. They symbolize what Sunny hoped for his life. He wanted a life of his own that would not fall apart.