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A novel is not merely a composite of actions and events that occur among characters, but it also entails a significant amount of descriptions and episodes of objects. How and why do writers employ objects from nature? In order to answer this question, this study (in lieu of a detailed analysis of a singular work) examines several works, canonical and contemporary, in which the descriptions and episodes of objects are pronounced. This study will show that these devices serve as representations of the characters inner psyche, personality, and human nature, and also as methods by which future events are foreshadowed. Todays writers seldom express their thoughts and impressions in a direct manner. Very rarely will you find straight forward statements of emotions in a novel. Such elements are often detrimental to the artistic value of fictional narratives, and are indeed more appropriate for the prose essay genre. For this reason, a novelists function is all the more difficult because he/she must devise a way to express these elements via the language of imagination. Consequently fictional writing is much more demanding than non－literary writing. As a poet might seek to communicate emotions and thoughts through concrete, rather than abstract, images and figures of speech, so too can the novelist, provided he/she possesses the imaginative power to draw correlations between nature and man, seek a comparable effect by skillfully utilizing descriptions and episodes of natural objects.