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The ice cream posts have made me recall the trip to the ice house, one of the many instances where contrast is used to heighten and deepen one's appreciation of joy. The ravine running like a dark gash through Green Town is the most obvious example, the message being that that happiness, joy, beauty can't be fully appreciated unless it's been counterposed by its negative. It's why for the boys, who didn't yet appreciate evil, had to revivify the Lonely One, to heighten their own enjoyment of summer and freedom. There are few if any unalloyed joys, although ice cream would qualify, and even then it melts if you don't eat it.
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