Moments of light in the story

   “Light” appears for several times in the story. And in author’s view, “light” is a symbol of goodliness and peace salvation. Thus, its position often opposites of the war scene normally supposed to be.

    At the first time, there are two sentences using ‘light” to describe sombre environment, one is “Up in the canopy there were tiny white blossoms, but no sunlight at all” and the other is “quadruple canopy, no sunlight at all”. And such a gloomy environment is contrasted with teenager’s lively atmosphere. When “Lemon step from the shade into bright sunlight. His face was suddenly brown and shining”, here “light” appears again and sunlight shines Lemon extremely beautiful. Likewise, in the sentence “when he died it was almost beautiful, the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him up and sucked him high into a tree full of moss and vines and white blossoms”, set off by sunlight, death scene is very sacred, Lemon was shrouded by pure white light, quietly lying on the white flower, dying without pain. It is like going into the heaven. The good atmosphere serves as a foil to uncertain cruel war. In the end, the protagonist thought the light kill Lemon; the more beautiful death scene is, the more sad people feel.