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Fish, as the novels narrator serves as the essence of spirituality. "Being Fish Lamb. Perfectly. Always. Everyplace. Me." Page 424. We can relate the name Fish, to the symbolic figure of a fish that Jesus used meaning peace and the name Lamb symbolically representing that we as lambs follow the herd as the lord is our shepherd. This ultimately conveying a duality of his name, in which we can associate many aspects of his character. In his visions we see guardian angels and of him being able to talk to their pig confirms the aspect of the otherworldly in life. We see water as the most symbolic force in Fish’ life, as water symbolises cleansing, a type of cleaning and a new way of seeing or thinking about something. It is in Fish’s heaven that we see his other-self and his desire to remember this world and too see it again. The spiritual ramifications of the novel’s prologue and epilogue scenes are unmistakably clear. In water as there is death, there is rebirth or life. This is sh...