David Malouf's Fly Away Peter

Michael Gow's play, "Away" expresses the idea of going through changes and receiving help from people around you. The key characters of the play experiences change and renewal as a result of their relationships with others ad the summer vacation. Coral and Gwen is two characters that undergo the most changes throughout the trip. Coral manage to moved on from her's son death while Gwen changed from a snobby person to a person who is more understandable. Tom is one of the critical character that help Coral and Gwen realised their issues and surpasses it. The play showed lives of people and their own struggle during the 60s and how they overcome it.

What causes people to undertake a mission? Is it to survive, achieve greatness, or to support others? Many people all have different reasons for what do, however in one form or another, they have some form of motivation to have them pursue their goals.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of young British boys are left stranded on an island after a fatal plane crash in the midst of a World War. With no communication to the outer world and no presence or influence of adults on the island, Ralph, Jack Merridew, and Piggy are forced to take initiative if the group of hopeless boys want to survive. The group of boys experience a drastic change throughout their time on the island, a change that no one would ever expect to occur to a young group of primed British boys. The leader of the stranded choirists on the island, Jack Merridew, shows such a change that he soon persuades other boys to follow his savage actions as the novel progresses. Though the changes to Jack’s mental and physical characteristics advance slowly at first, the final personality of Jack is instantly taken over at the climax of the novel to a dehumanized savage. Jack’s innocence is corrupted by his inability to withstand a society without rules proving man's good essential nature is altered by the evil within society.

Malouf evokes the horror and absurdity of war in ‘Fly Away Peter’ through an Australian frame of reference that creates reality for the reader. Discuss.

Moulaf has used the lines; “One named Peter, One named Paul” to link the characters of the book to the religious views and ways of living in the 1960’s. In the 1750’s the rhyme ‘Two Little Dickie Birds’ talked of two birds names Jack and Gill, in the early 1900’s the names were changed to the disciples ‘Peter and Paul’. In ‘Fly away Peter’ Moulaf has used this link between the birds name to introduce the religious connections. The bird peter symbioses Jim and Paul symbolises Ashley in the context of ‘Fly away Peter’.

'Fly Away Peter' is essentially a story about life. Through the life of Jim Saddler the reader becomes aware of the ideas posed by the author, David Malouf. Jim's life, if anything, is indeed a journey, unfolding through various broadening experiences that lead to Jim's eventual understanding of the world and his own self. However, to simply say that this understanding is enhanced solely by his contact with those around him is only true to a certain extent. Jim's journey of life exists on many levels, just one of which is the lessons he learns through his contact with others.

“I’ll just skip one more meal” is a quote many people say, but heard by few. I’ve heard it almost my whole life. This disease is rarely mentioned, and looked at as a joke. So ridiculously toxic, it can tear families apart. I know this from firsthand experience, and so does Furious Pete.

He describes it in such detail because he wants to describe the setting in a way that appeals to the reader. Opinions may vary, but when I read the first page I automatically thought of a place abundant in greenery and animals. Maybe even a forest with a running river. But then later on in the book he describes the setting in a very opposite manner.

The scene opens with a view of Seahaven, Christof’s garden of Eden. Seahaven is a perfect living environment. It has everything anyone would want. Eden had “all kinds of beautiful trees,” and different fruits, all Adam and Eve could have wanted. The two worlds share many elements of purity and perfection. Seahaven is an idealistic ‘perfect world’ where everything is magnificent, the buildings look freshly painted and the sunset is always beautiful. Everyone is Seahaven is happy, friendly and carefree. The set of Seahaven is set to be in the 1950’s, reflecting on the ‘American Dream,’ a well-off time in American History. Eden is described as “Beautiful,” with different trees and rivers surrounding it. God created the garden of Eden for the man,

Some people think the Pearl Harbor is boring and doesn't matter but I think it was very interesting. That lead me to reading the book Born to Fly by Michael Ferrarai.

Psychologist Carl Jung once stated, “The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.” This quote refers to his view on the psyche and imbalances which appear between its contrasting components. One of Jung’s key theories is the existence of archetype pairs in every person’s mind, including the ego and shadow pair. The ego represents the center of one’s consciousness; it organizes one’s memories, thoughts, and views of oneself as well as containing one’s strengths. On the other hand, the shadow represents part of one’s unconscious, containing their weaknesses and fears. These two aspects of one’s psyche form a precarious balance which may shift to favor a single side. A stronger ego leads to an inflated confidence, a God-like view of one’s self, and a projection of one’s shadow on others rather than confronting it. In contrast, a dominating shadow leads to one focusing on their weaknesses, faults, and problems instead of acknowledging their strengths. These aspects of the psyche are seen in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. When a plane crashes and strands a group of British boys on an island without any adults in the midst of a war, the boys attempt to form order, electing a chief named Ralph, the protagonist of the novel who struggles with leading the boys and confronting his own imbalances. In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the author reveals the Jungian archetype pair of the ego and the shadow through the protagonist Ralph with his views of his authoritarian chiefdom and his recognition of his moral lapses. Additionally, Ralph exhibits his balance through the presence of both the ego and the shadow while other boys perish without it.

I like Maupassant's use of similes especially 'They look like the nests of wild birds clinging to the rock looking down on this dangerous channel'. This helps the reader to visualise the pebble dashed cottages literally clinging onto the mountainside. Throughout the story Maupassant uses imagery in a very dramatic way. Maupassant makes clever use of personification, 'The wind harasses the sea remorselessly' giving the impression of a turbulent storm, it is as if the sea has got a life of its own. Maupassant's use of the word 'harasses' is very powerful and it conjures up an atmosphere of storms, thunder and lightning, again portraying that Bonifacio is a dangerous place.

It is clear, especially towards the beginning of the novel, that the African wilderness is nothing like the men have ever seen before. At the beginning of the giraffe scene, the landscape is described in an extraordinary but way. Quartermain begins by saying, “One evening, after a long day’s march, we came to a spot of peculiar loveliness” (Haggard, 72). Portraying the nature as lovely shows his appreciation for the land, but also describing it as peculiar shows that

" In some inland post feel savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him, - all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There is no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination-you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate."

As Wolff describes the swamp, he uses visual imagery in depicting how the paddies were covered by “green, undulant slime, with broken clumps of saw grass.” The use of this feature plays a role in irritating the reader from the situation Wolff was in at that point and creates emphasis on the troubles he went through.