Red Wolf's Room

Water is a precious resource to everyone.  For writers, it is a symbol that encompasses a tremendous amount of significance. With mirrors and other reflective objects, water shares several meanings.  It can be used to show what the human eye cannot see, such as a character's true nature or spirits.  When a character gazes into water, this represents reflection of oneself physically, emotionally and mentally.  As with Lewis Carroll's character, Alice, alternate worlds can be entered through mirrors or water.  The same can be said for hidden rooms; in the adventures on Tintin, hidden caves are concealed behind waterfalls. Water is a cleansing agent associated with purity.  We drink and wash with water to clean our bodies.  Writers often place their characters in showers or outside in the rain to demonstrate that they are cleansing themselves of a mistake or evil deed they have committed.  A famous example is of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth

In a city somewhere, the underground uprising is felt...             The wind is like a ghost breathing in.  And out.  The cars speed through as the people's heels beat against the pavement.              The tunnel is alive.               I'm waiting, in the moving crowd, for the motion, the moment that will initiate the fear and bring terror like rapids through us all.               Move, Monster.  Move.             I scan the walls expecting it to crack the graffiti on its insides.  It knows the mess we have made.  Are the scribbles too acidic?  Is the Monster burning in its paralysis?               Alien, invade us.  All we want is contact.             We know all about you and your kind.  Which version will you be, and with what language?  What technology?  We are human.  And we are God.  We destroy what we do not understand.  So, for your sake... conform.                 I breathe in unison with the Beast.