wooohooo! Yay! This is what I had to write about my freshman year when it first came out onbideo and I wanted to watch it! This is exaclty what I told my mother (besides the fact that it is an absoltuely wonderful book, therefore has to be a good movie)… btw… where did you find all this information as to the symbolism and the parallels, because I wanted to find it for a reference for Mom.