Analysis Of A High Wind In Jamaica, By Captain Jonsen

The Divine Wind, written by Garry Disher, is a novel in which not only shows and describes the struggle of characters during World War II in Broome, Australia, but also the many aspects of prejudice which affect namingly Ida Penrose, Mitsy Sennosuke, and Magistrate Killian.

An important idiosyncrasy of Emily's that will help the reader to understand the bizarre finale of the story, is her apparent inability to cope with the death of someone she cared for. When deputies were sent to recover back taxes from Emily, she directed them to Colonel Sartoris, an ex-mayor that had told her she would never have to pay taxes, and a man that had been dead for ten years. Years before this incident, however, after her father had died, she continued to act has if he had not, and only allowed his body to be removed when threatened with legal action. Considering the fate of her lover's corpse, one suspects she would have kept her father's corpse also, had the town not known of his death.

The novel The Divine Wind (1998) by Garry Disher and the 2003 film, Japanese Story, directed by Sue Brooks both explore the theme of 'love' through the use of novel and film techniques. Through the studying of the context and textual form of both of these texts, a greater understanding of the important ideas is achieved. This includes exploring the context, the characters and the key theme of love.

In relation to point one, something that makes Ponyboy Curtis a hero was his decision to risk his life and run into the burning church to save the children.

They had grown so close to each other, and when Emily finds out he is a homosexual, she feels betrayed and she kills him.

Disher demonstrates isolation of the ethnic groups and the regional and urban divide present in The Divine Wind through the beliefs, experiences, and values of the Killian family and Hartley Penrose. Both culturally and geographically isolated from the rest of Australia, the people of Northern and Central Australia, specifically Broome felt ignored, misunderstood, and misconstrued by the urban South. This is an ongoing theme in Australia. They resented interference from the federal government. The North feared invasion from Japanese and argued that Australia would perish if the North and the Centre were not populated and developed. Racism was intrinsic, with the Aborigines seen either as treacherous or lazy or as childlike and in need of protection. White Australians were the minority and their high statuses were a scant consolation when they were vastly outnumbered by a diverse range of cultures, the Japanese, Malays, and other South East Asians. Although, the minority, the white residents felt as if they had a power of the other ethnicities. Therefore, opening segregated cinemas, a Register of Aliens, and a clear but unofficial racial hierarchy. Their geographical isolation led to specific cultures, views, and beliefs on race. The regional and urban divide was evident when Jaimie Kilian’s wealthy urban family arrived in Broome. Jaimie felt entitled as his father was the new magistrate in town, he was arrogant and opinionated towards the regional community. When Hart offered his friendship, Kilian responded by saying “I don’t need any friends. “He walked as if he had owned the town.” Jamie enjoyed having an edge over Hart, he felt entitled as he was an urban elite. “Jamie was competitive. In almost everything you could name, Jamie was better than me…We were opposites.” Hart displayed what many felt about the new family from the Urban South. “I envied him, I was jealous, I pitied myself.”

Miss Emily can leave the house anytime and achieve freedom, but she knows that it would be far too hard to leave the place she grew up. The men in the lifeboat can try to head for shore at any time but there are many obstacles that stand in their way. Miss Emily is not in a life or death situation like these men, but she does have to deal with obstacles in the way of her freedom as well. If she leaves the house she would have nowhere to go; all of the people in the town would look down on her and shun her because she is not wealthy anymore. She could move away, but she would not be able to survive own her own; she has always had her dad and the servant to do everything for her. In The Open Boat, the men are phased with a lose-lose situation, unlike Miss Emily. She could either stay in the house until she dies, which she did, or take a chance and achieve freedom. The men, on the other hand, are in a tight spot, because either way they could die. They could wait on the lifeboat and die a slow painful death or they could try to gain their freedom and die in the process. They decide to risk their lives for a possibility of surviving and achieving their

The narrator talks about Emily’s death at the beginning of the story. Throughout the text there is descriptions of Emily’s death haunted life. The narrator compares her to a drowned woman, a bloated and pale figure left too long in the water.

After the death of Mr. Grierson, Emily initially refused to have her father’s body buried, and “she went out very little.” The initial refusal to bury her father demonstrates Emily’s inability to accept the death of her father. She wanted to keep him inside the house to “live” with her. “…the house was all that was left to her….” and so, when Mr. Grierson died, “Miss” Grierson died too. After his death, Emily was left unable to love, since her only love was now dead. The unusual and immoral love shared by “Miss Emily” and her father led to more tribulations later in Emily’s life, including her first and final attempt at attaining a husband.

“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral- (Faulkner,1)”, this is the opening sentence to Faulkner’s short story. Immediately the reader is left wondering who is Miss Emily and how did she die. As the story begins to unravel, more suspense is built. The first major instance is after Emily’s father dies. She claims he is not dead

In Faulkner's story, an onlooker tells of the peculiar events that occurred during Miss Emily's life. The author never lets the reader understand Emily's side to the story. Instead, the reader is forced to guess why Emily is as strange as she is. In the story, Emily had harbored her father's dead body in her house for three days (par. 27). The reader is told of how the town looked upon what Emily had done, but the reader is never able to fully understand Emily's actions until the end of the story.

In addition, Faulkner uses the skewed timeline to capture the reader. Since the reader is expecting a chronological tale, the reader pays attention to the use of time. As Faulkner begins with the death of Emily, the reader expects the upcoming events to succeed Emily. Faulkner uses the expectations of the reader to create the voyage by immediately shrouding the reader’s expectations with various, disruptive links to time such as “ in last ten years,” “that day in 1894,” and the “next generation” (Faulkner 668). This method leaves “a residue to be organized by the reader (Perry 36). As the reader becomes more involves, suspense follows inherently. If this story were told from perspective of Emily, it would make sense for her to tell the story chronologically. Unless Emily is stricken also with Alzheimer’s disease or another memory-losing ailment, it is illogical for Emily to tell the story in a distorted order. Even if Emily did have illness, this changes the nature thus providing that the story is untellable without the narrator. The suspense of this story comes with the presence of the narrator who is allowed to distort the story as he sees fit.

The townspeople often gossip and whisper about her, and there are many things they do not know about Miss Emily. They whisper, “‘Do you suppose it’s really so?’ they said to one another. ‘Of course it is. What else could…’” (Faulkner 4). There are many more examples of the townspeople making assumptions about Miss Emily, because she is a complete shut-in and speaks to quite literally nobody. Throughout the entire story, there is almost a veil between Miss Emily and the rest of the townspeople and the reader. It is only somewhat dropped at the end of the story, when the murder and body are discovered. Nobody really even knows Miss Emily’s feelings and emotion. The reader only knows her actions, and that is not enough to assume most of her feelings. However, if the story was written in the first person point of view of Miss Emily, by the very nature of the narration, the reader would be clued into every emotion that passed through her mind. This way, they would be able to understand her, and maybe why she did the things she did, like staying confined within the walls of her home for most of her life. This may also make the ending more predictable. Instead of the reader’s initial reaction being shock, horror, and disgust, it may now be a grim reality that only slightly shakes the reader. Miss

In the beginning of the story, the captain is downcast because his ship went down. Now that his ship is gone, he

No one would have ever suspected that Emily Grierson was capable of murder, much less keeping that murder a secret for over thirty years. Under the watchful, judging eyes of the townspeople, she kept up the pretense that she was a sane-minded, upper class individual, while she spiraled privately into a heinous madness that would claim the life of her beloved. Through stream of consciousness, the townspeople show the reader how Emily’s descent was as much their fault as it was