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 it was another fish in her dreams I would never have caught any meaning to these dreams at all, it's the salmon that carry all the meaning and the symbolism of her dreams. It's the very nature and the life purpose of a salmon that directly relates to and symbolizes Lav Andrews.
             The life of a salmon starts out as an egg, when it hatches it leaves the river where it was born, and makes its way out into the vast unpredictable ocean and its there where it spends all its life up until the salmon is ready and old enough to spawn. 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. This life purpose of a salmon directly re...