Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone else. Like where he went when he wasn't mysteriously showing up at random (and frequently dangerous) points in my life. And, most of all, I didn't know how, when he mentioned the jacket, he made me think about the sweet, romantic part of the night last November when he'd given it to me, and not the terrible, bloody, international-terrorists-are-trying-to-kidnap-me part that came right after. Ally Carter
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In the movie, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", a boy from a concentration camp is sent to live with German occupiers. He begins to have fantasies about his mother and father. In one of those fantasies, his mother gives him a jacket that he wears a lot. It's a sweet fantasy.

However, as the war situation worsens, so does this boy's fantasy. He dreams of being able to run away from his captors and return to the safety of his family. The jacket symbolizes comfort and safety, but also the fantasy that the war is over and that his family is safe.

Source: Only The Good Spy Young

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