Cranes by Peter Meinke Response

The symbol of the cranes reveals the meaning of the story that even though love is forever, time can cut everything short and cause 2 people's love for eachother to end here on earth.  The cranes on the ground were a symbolism of the couple's love here on earth.  Although the cranes will not live forever,  there love for one another will continue on to eternity.  When the cranes plunged upwards toward the sun, this process symbolized the souls of the couple after they die and how they will float up to heaven and be together once again.  The crane is a very calm, peaceful creature which symbolizes the life and death of the couple.  The meaning of the couple's lives and love is told with how the cranes live and prosper in the moment.  Time is a very precious part of life that needs to be taken with great care and used wisely. If this subject is not taken advantage of the way it is supposed to, one's love with another will be cut short and be almost useless.  The short life span of the cranes tells how time is short and life only happens once, so make the most of it.