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Symbolism In Amelia's Road
Roads were the most terrifying objects in the world for Amelia, but after she had met the accidental road, she had another meaning for roads. In the short story “Amelia’s Road” by Linda Jacobs Altman, Amelia found a road while walking back from school, she named it the “accidental road.” This road and the tree, symbolize her favorite place to be and this was a place that she would want to live. In the middle of the story, “ Amelia danced for joy, her black hair flying as she twirled around and around the silent meadow. Almost every day, when work and school were over, Amelia would sit beneath the tree and pretend she had come home. More than anywhere in the world, she wanted to belong to this place and know that it belonged to her.(2)” The
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