According to the excerpt, the medicine bag is a symbol of safety. The narrator believed it would protect their son in battle, indicating that it represents a form of protection or comfort in dangerous circumstances. However, the son's decision not to take it due to fear of losing it suggests a complex relationship with the bag, but its intended purpose remains one of safety.
Read this excerpt from "The Medicine Bag.”
"I kept the bag until my son, your mother’s father, was a man and had to leave us to fight in the war across the ocean. I gave him the bag, for I believed it would protect him in battle, but he did not take it with him. He was afraid that he would lose it. He died in a faraway place.”
According to this excerpt, the medicine bag is a symbol of
rebirth.
bad luck.
death.
safety.
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