On p. 10, during "a spring afternoon in West Florida, Janie had spent most of the day under ablossoming pear tree in the backyard." How does she describe this experience? Any ideas whatthis might symbolize?

which specific shipwreck are you talking about?

this scroll was the first major biblical manuscript of great antiquity ever to be recovered. the qumran isaiah scroll predated the oldest hebrew text preserved in the masoretic hebrew bible by a millennium.