character - Why does Blake draw the Batman symbols all over town? - Movies & TV

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Late in The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham
is closed off from the rest of the world and the police are forced underground (both
literally and figuratively). We catch up with the action when the government sends a
highly-trained government agent in to help with the efforts to overthrow Bane, his
mercenaries, and the criminals now free in Gotham. There are a number of times that John
Blake is shown drawing a Batman symbol with chalk (shown below is an image of the album
cover for the soundtrack that has a similar drawing on
it).

What purpose do these
drawings
serve?

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My best guess is that they had
something to do with tracking the trucks carrying the bomb around, but that wasn't
especially clear.

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We also
see the boy in the orphanage drawing little chalky bats during Blake's visit there -
this led me to believe that Blake (being one of the former orphans) used to draw these
himself as a symbol of hope, and that he was merely replicating these around the city as
he attempted to free the cops and also to track the truck
routes.

Think of them as 'resistance symbols',
like 'V' or Che Gervara stencils.