Sanctuary
When Daniel and his father arrive at the ‘Cemetery of Forgotten books,’ his father tells him: “This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul… When a library disappears, or a book-shop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader’s hands. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend. Now they have only us, Daniel.” The allegorical sanctuary stresses that the cemetery is integral in the safeguarding of the ancient books. Books stored at the cemetery are reliant on it for their diffusion and endurance. If the cemetery were non-existent, then there would be no secure haven for the souls of these overlooked books.
Prison
Daniel narrates, “I pulled the volume down with great care and leafed through the pages, letting them flutter. Once liberated from its ( The Shadow of the wind) prison on the shelf, the book shed a cloud of golden dust.” Daniel employs the emblematic prison to emphasize the dustiness that the book has withstood as a result of its protracted presence on the shelf. Removing the book from the shelf rescues it from superfluous amassing of dust. The rhetorical gold infers that the dust has hoarded massively to the degree that its worth would be paralleled to gold.
Ghostly
Daniel recounts, “The story of that quest became a ghostly odyssey in which the protagonist struggled to recover his lost youth, and in which the shadow of a cursed love slowly surfaced to haunt him until his last breath.” Here Daniel recaps the plot in The Shadow of the wind. The allegorical ghost accentuates the haunting quandary which the central character weathers in the pursuit to refabricate his youthfulness. Ghosts occasion a melancholic and appalling mood.
