Henry is a materialist and an atheist, so it is especially important when he describes Theo's music as 'a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself' (Ch. Despite the terrors of the day, Daisy's family comes out with hope. Daisy is insistent on having the baby, which will be the beginning of a life discovered by a cruel act of manipulation.

This pregnancy comes to represent hope for the future in the face of disaster. When she does so, her family realizes that she is pregnant, probably entering her second trimester. When Baxter invades Perowne's house, accompanied by his associate Nigel and armed with weapons, he forces Daisy to strip naked. Henry's thoughts often revolve around this phenomenon, and Baxter's inevitable affliction comes to represent the fate forced upon a person by his or her genes, an unfortunate yet unavoidable circumstance of life. Huntington's Diseaseīaxter, the thug whose car collides with Henry's on the way to his squash game, suffers from Huntington's Disease, a neurological disorder that causes the brain to deteriorate. The plane crash turns out to be innocuous and the pilots innocent, but the question of terrorism still characterizes the crash throughout the novel. The uncertainty of the nature of the crash, however, makes this event into a symbol of the ambiguities of life and the tendency of humanity to assume the worst about the unknown. This event hangs in the back of his mind all day, and he eagerly anticipates its arrival on the news. When Henry wakes up in the early morning, he witnesses a burning plane's flight from his window, one that likely terminates in a crash. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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