Waiting for Time
A fish can symbolize many different things such as sensitivity, knowledge and also has a famous representation of Jesus Christ in the Christian religion, but it's the symbolism of the fish in Lav's dreams in "Waiting for time" that is the topic of this essay. At the beginning of "Waiting for Time" the reader sees Lav as a well off young lady without many troubles in this world, but there is one thing that troubles her very much and that's the lack of knowledge she has of her past. She has a lot of questions that she wants answered about her past and her mother doesn't help much. Lav wants to find her way back home to where she was born. Lav gets a job in Newfoundland, she sees this as an opportunity to find her roots. It is when she is on the plane that the reader first hears of her fish dreams but the reader also knows that this is not the first time that Lav has had these dreams about fish, or to be more precise salmon. At first you wouldn't think that these dreams really meant anything besides the fact she was going to Newfoundland to do a report on fish. It wasn't till nearly the end of the book that I really caught the meaning of the dreams that Lav was having about salmon. If i
As she says "All night her ageing salmon swims, first through shifting, weed filed sludge, then through computer printouts, along watery pathways that rattle with the tap of keyboards smelling of formaldehyde"(40) and it is when she dreams about the fish swimming through all these obstacles that you know that this salmon in Lav's dreams is a representation of Lav herself and her work and she realizes this to. After all the looking in the archives she found a woman to talk to about her past but when she got to the Cape she was dead and could not ask her questions and find out what she wanted. Lav continues to have these dreams when she's in St. The dreams that she was having of salmon they had meaning not to just the reader but to her which would give you the idea that the salmon was trying to tell her something, to go find her spawning ground. Also know that Lav has found out about her past, she is now herself a carrier of knowledge of her ancestors and her immediate family. The symbolic meaning of this that I understood is that the dreams stoped because the fish is Lav and Lav is no longer searching for her spawning grounds so neither is the salmon, they both made it to where they wanted to go, their spawning grounds. Overall the Salmon in her dreams represents Lav's life and everything she's going through, doing and becoming till eventually she lives the whole course of the salmon. The salmon in Lav's dreams and everything the salmon swims through symbolize Lav's life and what she is going through in order to find out about her past and to get Cape Random. The salmon is Lav and Lav is the salmon, there one entity. A salmon is seen as a carrier of knowledge in some cultures which could be related to Lav. This life purpose of a salmon directly relates to the life of Lav Andrews in "Waiting for Time"as I will explain. Johns but now there getting kind of weird, because now as the salmon swims its swimming through and past obstacles. Which is the same as a salmon leaving its river when its born and going to the ocean. This is yet another obstacle that she has to overcome just like her salmon. When the salmon is ready to spawn it will make its way back to the exact same river and spawning grounds to where it hatched and after it lays its eggs it will die where it was born.
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