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In Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick many factors combine to tie together the short stories. Factors that contribute include the island, some characters, the tea, but I am going to focus on the hares. In the first story the hare is only briefly mentioned. Eric sees the hare outside his house and finds it sitting there peculiar. Myself as a reader did no think anything of it until the second story when you see that the hare comes back. In the second story the hare is held by the boy who stands by the archeological site. The archeologist describes him as follows, "In his hands, like a small child,he is always, always, holding a soft toy. It is a brown hare. He holds it by its long ears, so that it droops from his big palm,

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