Entry 35:
"The child flew away like a bird"
This is a continues motif throughout the book between Pearl and birds, or Peal and elves which all have to do with nature. Being part of nature considers someone to be wild, and against the town's beliefs and expectations of no one being independent. Her parents are what broke the law, but she's outside of it, and the 'prison' of the town itself. She doesn't have to live like everyone else under the constraints of the society. She's free, like a bird.
True.
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