Journal 62: Symbol of the House

      In the story “House Taken Over” the house represents the world. Everything seems to just happen within the house. I think the house is the world that pause at an stage of time. So you could say the house represents an past, period of time or anything else similar. I think the act of knitting symbolize how everyone lives through their life if not trying to make sparks in your life. If you are not trying to make any sparks in your life, then the time doesn’t matter to you anymore it is just day after day. You get up, get dress, go to work, comes back and the day ends again. This could be very reparative and if you don’t try to catch it, time flies through your fingertips without you ever notice. This seems like the action of knitting, it could be a meaningful activity but to the sister it is jus the way to kill time because the things she knits are, although useful, didn’t put into use. Going to school could be useful, but if you don’t take what you learn and apply into your life, although you are going to get to collage and live on, you don’t actually get anything out of it. This relates to everyone, from baby to 100 years old men.