Divine Wind
The Divine Wind describes an Australia that is tarnished by racism, hatred and distrust, and yet the novel ends on an optimistic not. Do you agree?
Based in World War Two the Divine Wind portrays a worn and exhausted Australia, where the white Australian society deprives the ability to correspond....
Divine Wind demonstrates that only the strongest relationships can survive in a time of crisis
The Divine Wind written by Garry Disher is a novel about friendship losed and friendship gained in Broome prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1942. The book evidently shows that only the strongest of relationships can last in a time of crisis whilst others fail when things get tough. We are....
Friendship in the Divine Wind
Divine Wind- Essay
Friendship being a fragile notion is well illustrated throughout the novel in Hart and Mitsys relationship. In Garry Dishers the Divine Wind, there are many examples of friendship being a temperamental concept, with Hart and Mitsys relationship being a prime example. Hart....
Issues & Their Contribution To Meaning In "The Divine Wind"
The author described his novel as a story about friendship, but there is more to it than this. Discuss what issues are explored in the text and how they contribute to the meaning we make of the novel.
The Divine Wind by Garry Disher is centralized around the theme of relationships, whether th....
The Divine Wind
The narrator tells the reader this is a story about friendship and that friendship is a slippery notion. How does the novel explore the slippery nature of friendships?
The novel The Devine Wind by Gary Disher explores the slippery nature of friendships through many themes. The hard to....
the divine wind
The novel is set during a World War. The tension and separation of races during a war seemed evident in Australia. As a multicultural country including Japanese and Aborigine population, conflicting attitudes towards these races had to be imminent. I entirely agree with the above statement due to th....
the divine wind
The detrimental effects of war are widespread and far-reaching. The author of Divine Wind outlines in detail the devastating effects of war in a society. The tensions in a multicultural society are even more exacerbated. There are many factors which impact on how much tension is created such as th....
The Divine Wind - impact of the threat of war on a fragile society
The Australian novel "The Divine Wind" by Garry Disher shows through a combination of damaging events in a time of war and growing self-doubt that it changed people's perceptions of life forever. One of the painful lessons of life is that the past is always with us. Hart is a complex, good-hearted g....