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“Trees changed, became standing figures, weeping nuns, slithering ghosts, flying dreams”, (pg.32) says Gary Paulsen in Winterdance. In the book Paulsen uses symbols and metaphors to further the reader’s experience. At the beginning of the book Paulsen lives in Minnesota and runs trapline dogs, after a run where he meets many wild animals he realizes he wants to run the Iditarod. After this Ruth (Gary Paulsen’s wife), helps him get dogs and prep for the race. The theme is the main message of a story, it’s universally understood and is always a full sentence. One theme in the book is “things are not always as they appear”, you can see this many times in Winterdance including in the chapter “Beginnings” when Paulsen and his team encountered a beaver. He thought it wouldn’t end well because beavers are quite viscous, but as it turned out neither the beaver nor the …show more content…
45.) A symbol is a mark, character, or in this case animal, that is used to represent something else. In Winterdance marge was a symbol. Marge was a wild wolf that Paulsen and his trapline team ran into while on a run. Wolves are often used to symbolize the wild, but Paulsen does a great job of using Marge to illustrate the relationship between man and the wild. In this way Marge symbolises both loyalty and the wild.
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which something is compared to another object to create more understanding and imagery. “Trees changed, became standing figures, weeping nuns, slithering ghosts, flying dreams”, (pg.32) this is a metaphor Paulsen wrote to explain that at night and in the darkness things seem more eerie.
Gary Paulsen’s Winterdance, his use of theme, symbol, and metaphor gives the reader a higher level of understanding of the struggles he went through while prepping for and running the Iditarod. His way of using metaphors expands on the all around imagery and makes a better

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