Symbolism In All The Bright Places

Lastly, characters in the young adult novel, All the Bright Places, learn to Come of Age by coping with change. In the book All the Bright Places, Violet has a sister named Eleanor. The two sisters were exceptionally close. Eleanor and Violet wrote together on their own blog, they acted as if they were best friends until Eleanor dies in a car crash. Violet Comes of Age when she copes with the loss of her sister. Violet’s sister Eleanor and she were in a car accident after driving home from a party. Eleanor drove off the bridge and the car plummeted into an embankment. Eleanor was alive for a few more hours then passed away, while Violet only sustained minor injuries. Violet begins to feel melancholy and depressed; however, eventually she learns

“Eleanor’s door is closed. I push it open and go inside. (...) I set the glasses down on dresser. ‘Thanks for the loan,’ I say. ‘But the make my head hurt. And they’re ugly.’ I can almost hear her laughing” (Niven 191). Violet wearing Eleanor’s glasses is a symbol that she still felt the loss of her sister and that she, in fact, put the blame of the accident on herself. When Violet takes the glasses of it shows that she is trying to cope with the change and move on. Violet Comes of Age when she takes off the glasses, symbolizing that she is coping with the death of her sister. Secondly, Violet, a character from All the Bright Places, Comes of Age when she copes with the change of Finch committing suicide. Finch and Violet meet at the top of a bell tower both ready to take their lives. Finch talks Violet down and Violet does the same. They develop and relationship and they instantly fall in love. However, later in the novel, Finch takes his life and commits suicide. She watches his body being taken out of the river where he had drowned himself hours before she arrived to attempt to save