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Cold Mountain, the mountain that neighbors Black Cove, is clearly one of the novel’s key symbols. It’s such a big, imposing sight that it’s impossible to forget it—everybody who’s lived in Black Cove knows Cold Mountain like the back of their hand. Furthermore, the characters say on more than one occasion that Cold Mountain never changes—it’s the same as it was before the Civil War, and it’ll be the same again in a hundred years. In this way, Cold Mountain is a symbol of the characters’ collective past, and an important reminder of why Inman wants to go back to Black Cove in the first place: he wants to travel back to a time before he was a soldier.