Metaphor for loss
Coffins are used in the story to tell about the loss of the revolutionaries in German, Poland, and Hungary. Sometimes the coffins are sources of awe of the onlookers. For instance, the author says that they are regarded as charms. The author says that he watched curiously as the Historian professor Ivan T. Berend eminently paid his last respects to the coffins that had been paraded in the Heroes Square. Berend was a Hungarian.
Simile for Loss
The Heroes Square in the Hungarian People's republic was designed by an opposition activist. The place features a gallery of art commemorating what happened to the insurgents. There is a wooden structure that is described as being shaped like a front part of the ship known as a schooner. Apart from the wooden structure, there are five coffins of people who are named; Imre Nagy and his colleagues. The author says that the wooden structure is symbolic
Simile for the destruction of the platform in West Berlin.
The famous platform in West Berlin was where eminent visitors were taken to take a look at the Berlin Wall, the no-man land and beyond. After the truce, the Berlin wall became functionless as people from the opposite sides could pass through. The author says that the platform ended up being pulled down by workers in Berlin like a prop that was not needed.
