Many people believe ET is supposed to be a Christ like figure and symbolizes when Jesus Christ was crucified, eventually resurrected and was taken into heaven (ET was taken home by a UFO at the end of the film) when ET tells Eliot he will always be "right here", and gestures to Eliot's heart, is believed to symbolize the Christian faith.
Personally, I believe it's a story of how friends come from all sorts of places and may look different but give a genuine friendship. Kind of a "don't judge a book by it's cover" story.
The reason that the author included the hyperbole is : A. to emphasize the power of Orpheus Music
He wanted to make the readers aware that Orpheus music is so powerful, that people that are located in far distance could hear it
Hope this helps
Definitely self conscious <span />
I believe this is alliteration. I always remember this by the double L's in the word, A repetition of a consonant.
