Tether

=Tether=

page 14 - 'the clutch on his throat won't loosen, won't even let him scream as the life is pinched out of him'. the tether around his throat is killing him, it is holding on an slowly pulling him down.

page 91 - ' A stab of fear, the heat and moisture of the room suddenly suffocating, pinching the life from him'. Even when Mark is home the effects from Kurdistan are always suffocating him, bringing him down.

page 185 -'Colin would start to lag behind, would finally stop following altogether'. As Mark continues his journey he is still carrying the memory of Colin. As Marks carries on Colin begins to fade away.

page 234 - 'he watched it slip away among the birch trees, he felt Colin ebbing - the look of his face, the sound of his face'. As Mark watches the flower float away, he also watches the memory and burden of Colin leave him as well.

page 234 - 'along with the flowers and his friend, Mark felt something else leaving him, the tether on his throat, the night water on his temples' Mark becomes free of his tether, the flowers floating down the river symbolises all the terrible memories that have been plagueing Mark. He is finally free of the tether that was holding him back.