Peak

Blue Mountain Tag

Peak’s spray-paint tag of two blue mountains represents how his understanding of what it means to be independent and mature changes as he comes of age over the course of the novel. The novel…

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Boulder

The school bus-sized boulder symbolizes the obstacles that Sun-jo and Peak must overcome to climb Everest. When Peak and Sun-jo drive past the boulder on their way to Everest’s Base Camp, Tibetan prisoners are chipping…

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