Caves

=Caves as a symbol in 'Triage'= - "... and, in return, Mark has his cavernous living room." page 29. To Mark, caves represent safety. Because of this, his own home must resemble a cave.

- "The Harir cave. A forty-bed ward and an operating theatre carved out of solid rock, with no ventilation, no running water, no medicine." page 15. Although Mark does not necessarily like the cave, and has a strong desire to leave it, it is still a place of refuge, safe from war and allows him to live. Even helps him to live.

- "He lay beneath a ceiling of stone. A yellow light played over the uneven surface, outlinging its pits and gouges." page 14. Inside the Harir cave, the yellow light represents the goodness there, the hope. But aswell as this, the 'pits and gouges' are brought to the surface replicating the danger lurking, and the 'dodginess' of the hospital, the lack of medical assistance it can provide.