Blog #6

In the book The Snowman, there is a good use of symbol. A symbol is something that represents or stands for something else. In this book the snowman's scarf doesn't just symbolize the features of a human being. After a young boys mother mysteriously goes missing  police are called into investigate. After doing further searching and analysing the police have come to the conclusion that the scarf placed on the snowman's neck was last seen  with the mother before she disappeared. By calling attention to the scarf police are able to determine that in fact the mother has been taken against her will. As the young boys says, "She would never have given her favourite scarf to the snowman. Then it must have been your dad. No, someone did it after he'd left.Last night. The person who took mum."(Nesbo, 42) Therefore, the purpose of the scarf wasn't only used to symbolize human like clothing on the snowman but to symbolize the taking of the young boys mother.


Nesbø, Jo, and Don Bartlett. The Snowman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print