The Question and Answer section for Secret Sharer is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In Part One, the higher ground of self-knowledge is symbolized by the "larger and loftier mass, the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda," standing on higher ground than that on which the "two insignificant clumps of trees stand," one on each...
The nameless captain and ship is surprising in this story is surprising, given the fact that they are the central figures on the book. They, therefore, are symbolic of the universality of the tale. The captain is every man and the ship is the...
The narrator of the story, this is a young man who only a fortnight before the story begins receives his first command of a ship. Because he has been on the ship only two weeks, at the beginning of the novel he feels like he is not only a...
