Coming Home

Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin seeds represent hope for the future, specifically the sort of future one wins through hard work. Coming Home begins and ends with discussions of pumpkin seeds. In the first scene, Veronica tells Mannetjie how…

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Bicycle

The bicycle that Alfred yearns for represents aspirations and dreams, which can turn into nightmares when they go unattained. When Veronica returns to her childhood home, she is amused but disappointed to discover that Alfred…

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