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Unlike any ordinary author, Mark Z. Danielewski fills his work with artistic creativity and many hidden messages and meanings. The title of the novel, House of Leaves, alone has creativity and meaning present. The title not only holds the significance of the book, but also the significance of the world. The meaning of the title can be interpreted from Johnny’s and Navidson’s journey, and from the changes leaves go through. As Johnny reaches his own personal center at the end of the novel, the title’s meaning can be interpreted further. As the end of the novel is approached, an ash tree named Yggdrasil, which “stand ten thousand feet high, but doesn’t reach the ground” (709), is discovered. It is understood that the ash tree is the center of the labyrinth as the roots “hold the sky” (709). The ash tree is at the very end of House of Leaves, and holds the novel, or the labyrinth, together. Johnny “stretched out beneath an old ash tree,” and drifted off “into a sleep no longer disturbed by the past” (514). At this point he is approaching the end of the journey of his own inner labyrinth. Johnny is resting underneath an ash tree with great importance. It signifies that the center of everyone’s labyrinth i