Birds
There's a flock of references to birds in the story, but what's the message behind them? Because most species of birds can fly, writers often use birds as symbols of freedom. That's not all they re...
Military/Civil War
It's probably not a big surprise that a story named after a Civil War battlefield is as riddled with military references as the log cabin at Shiloh is riddled with bullets. The military symbolism i...
The Log Cabin
You could build an entire village of log cabins with how many times they're referenced in "Shiloh," even though, as Norma Jean points out to Leroy, "They won't let you build a log cabin in any of t...