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Explain the sextant and what theme it relates to

Explain the suitcase and what theme it relates to

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The brass sextant represents exploration and man's desire to see the world. The romantic idea of navigating the stars to distant lands is now dead. There are no stars and there is nowhere to go. The sextant is a relic, a useless object in a dead world.

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