How does the author use imagery in the novel, The Vegetarian?

The image of "the flaming trees" is shaped to suggest that these trees are intended to represent both Yeong-hye and In-hye as they each, in very different ways, realize their own desires for, and inclinations towards, independence. This image, which gives Part 3 its title, does not refer to trees that are literally on fire: instead, it refers to a pair of points in the Part 3 narrative in which trees look, as the result of particular types and castings of light, as though they are on fir