1. The first thing I tabbed was on page 275 he said "...clouds, for it was exciting to see them after weeks of pitiless sun." And I tabbed it because of the "pitiless sun" that phrase has been repeated a bunch of times and it just keeps coming up so I think it is a symbol. it's also personification because he's saying the sun has no pity and maybe it ties in with the fact that there seems to be no mercy and there's no mercy for absalom in his case.
2. Another thing I tabbed was page 279 he says that "...sound, of streams and rivers, all red with the blood of the earth" and then a couple sentences later he says "That evening they all came out in the pale red light of sunset, ..." And I thought it was interesting how he keeps using the color red, and I know I've heard that other places in the book as well so I thought it was another interesting repetition that he has this color of red as a symbol. It's kind of a powerful color so that's interesting. I think maybe he uses words like red and blood to evoke an image of like war and pain and suffering because that's going on a lot. And also maybe heat because of the pitiless sun he keeps describing as well.
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