After reviewing and completing chapter XXI in 'House of Leaves,' we read Chapters XXII which concludes with Karen finding and rescuing her husband, Navidson, after entering the maze herself- which changes the reader's understanding that he had died in the house. Navidson survives the house by burning his only remaining light. The couple ends up marrying but the entire experience with the house leaves Navidson forever changed and scarred. Ben identified and compared the symbols and motifs in the novel and how they represented in the text. We identified the following symbols: the house, labyrinths and hallways, mirrors. and darkness and void. Motifs included the footnotes and Danielewski's use of multi-layered texts, echoes, and typographic play, all of which intertwined to explore grief and reality. Ben effectively connected the recurring ideas to the themes, characters, and events described in the novel. This led to the conclusion that the main themes were fear, obsession, the unknown, and the questioning of reality. As Ben leafed through the final pages of the book, which showed various illustrations depicting the house, he creatively summed it up as " A book of leaves within The Book of Leaves" - a most fitting conclusion to our exploration of this challenging novel.