The Divine Wind Analysis

Gary Disher’s socially provocative Australian historical drama novel The Divine Wind (1998) set in the Australian pearling town of Broome, provides a thought-provoking and contemporary outlook on racial prejudice, isolation and the loss of rights to adulthood during the onset of World War11. Disher establishes this through a range of characters of differing ages and cultural backgrounds, evoking a war-devastated Australia and its effects on young adults forced to leave their childhood behind. Written as a series of melancholic recollections, the seemingly simple novel conveys the messages of a violent history, as it explores the complexity of the relationships between racially diverse characters during the onset of WW11. The novel follows a young and ambitious Hartley Penrose who faces challenges with discovering his maturity/identity, serving as a transition from his past to his future. The Divine Wind utilizes the characters’ ideas, experiences, beliefs, and values to explore the central themes, the racial prejudice between the white race and other ethnicities, the regional and urban divide and the growing up and loss of rights to adulthood. The Divine Wind utilizes conventions and ideas from the drama genre to communicate these central themes which are still prevalent in today’s modern society.

Within the next few paragraphs or so, this does begin to come to light with Petry’s choice of words such as “fingering” and “lifted” being used to describe the actions taken by the wind. This is also the part of the passage where we begin to see the anger and violence of the wind. It “blinds” and “grabbed” people, “forced” and “stung” them. All out of the malice it felt from people simply being on its street.

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.”

In the novel "The Divine wind", Garry Disher explores the experiences, values, ideas and beliefs expressed by some Australians, in remote Broome, during the world war two. Narrated by Hartley Penrose, the story follows the lives of his family and friends, as they deal with the reality of war. Touching on subjects such as racism and relationship, Disher provides an insight into how dramatically their lives are affected.

Throughout the twentieth century, numerous dramas that were written in the United States presented ideas and situations that had the purpose of changing a reader’s attitude towards a specific subject. This is the case of the play “Inherit the Wind”, a piece written by the playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Throughout the years, many literary scholars have argued whether or not “freedom of thought” has stood as a predominant theme in the play. While this issue may bring about countless debates, my respect towards others’ viewpoints has allowed me to pick a side and to defend it with textual evidence from the play itself. From my perspective, the main theme in Inherit the Wind is freedom of thought.

One of attracting concepts has been the use of Turbosail principle to produce lift from fixed cylinders in various engineering applications. With emerging innovative Turbosail type wind turbine technology, it is important to determine power performance and characteristics of such generators as correctly as possible.

Easterly Trade Winds over the equatorial Pacific Ocean are partially to blame for both occurrences. For La Niña, the Easterly Trade Winds substantiate her atmospheric conditions. The Winds blow added warm water west, which causes very cold water below the ocean's surface to rise upward toward the surface replacing the warm water, and this occurs near the South American coast. During an El Niño, the opposite occurs. The Easterly Trade Winds become weaker causing a lessened, to no impact, at all. The Winds can even reverse direction. The warm Pacific Ocean becomes nearly stationary or flows eastward and as it does, it gains heat because there is little or no circulation of air. Not only does El Niño affect weather, it is also responsible for

According to the cops, you were nothing but a no good hood they all knew was destined to die young and violent. None of those cops would think to charge a Soc with your death. They're too busy kissing up to their rich mommy and daddy's.

In the beginning of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, is a bildungsroman that follows the main character’s life. The reader finds out that Kvothe, the protagonist, has gone into hiding. Almost everyone believes that Kvothe is dead except for his faithful student, Bast. Posing as a simple innkeeper named Kote in a small town, he remains there, hiding from the rest of the world for the whole story. On the first night, Kote saves the Chronicler from demons called the Scrael. He later finds out that the Chronicler is a historian who wants to record the true story of Kvothe’s life. After this event, the rest of the book is an anecdote that takes the rest of the night to cover. Because of this, the story switches from an omniscient

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In “ The Name of the Wind” Patrick Rothfuss once said, “ It’s like everyone tells a story themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” Our identity is what we know ourselves by how others view us in the world. Their many identities that we have some examples are race, gender, fashion, class, sexuality, etc. All these identities shape the way we think, act, and view the world. We may not know it, but our identities impact one another either in a negative or positive way. Either we make our identities by our interests or what we feel like we should be viewed as. Some let others make their identity for them, they’re influenced by what they see on T.V. mainly by what celebrities are wearing. I know for me when I was younger I would watch all these NBA games and see these players wear Jordans. Jordan 's back when I was a youngin and still today where cool shoes you had popularity if you had Jordans. All the cool kids had Jordan 's and I wanted to be like that a cool kid. So I acted like someone I wasn 't, buying many pairs of Jordan’s (which are expensive) so I can fit in and so everyone can know me as a cool kid because as a little boy at Colonia Middle School I wanted to have recognition as the kid with the expensive shoes and the showy clothes. Also, I was pressured by my surroundings to buy these items because I saw a lot of kids being bullied for wearing inexpensive clothes and I didn 't

Wind power is a clean and renewable energy that, while at times unreliable, has very low upkeep cost and is growing at a rapid rate. While there is currently enough wind power to provide many times our current energy need, it is unfeasible in reality. Wind power utilizes the kinetic energy of air and uses it to power a generator to produce electricity. Even though dependence on wind power is impossible, it still can provide a strong, clean, quantity of power to supplement current energy production.

Dylan’s early music, written as part of this folk revival, reflects this individualist style of political folk songs, but the degree and subject of political conviction seems to be less important to him than the expression of emotion, and a certain identification of himself as being political. This is readily apparent in his work from the 1963 album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”. Two of his great early political forays, “Blowin in the Wind” and “Masters of War”, play in quite nicely with the notion that this generation of folk artists were more abstract, asking less rational, or rhetorical, questions, and expressing an anger with the world, but not offering much in the way of action. The second verse of “Blowin in the Wind” expresses an anger with society’s willingness to sit idly by in the face of injustices, but due to its vague language, this anger is not directed at any particular instance of injustice: “How many years can some people exist/Before they're allowed to be free/Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head/And pretend that he just doesn't see/The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind/The answer is blowin' in the wind.” Moreover, the refrain is also incredibly ambiguous, and like much of the ephemeral political music of the time, doesn’t offer a concrete solution to the problem. “Masters of War” offers a scathing indictment of the arms build-up of the Cold War. Much of the song calls for the death of the war profiteers, and offers a grim image in

The Tempest is a play which by William Shakespeare thought by many critics to be the last play that he wrote by himself. The setting of the play is on a remote island where Prospero the sorcerer and also the legitimate Duke of Milan, plans to return his daughter Miranda to her rightful status, he uses magic and skillful manipulations to achieve this. He magically creates a storm that makes his rival brother Antonio and Alonso the King of Naples be shipwrecked and marooned on his island. On the island, Prospero uses his talents to reveal Antonio’s lowly character and vindicate the king. The main moral lessons from the poem are forgiveness and absolution but there are many other lessons we can learn from The Tempest. This paper explains how The Tempest leads us to a creative perspective of the modern world by tackling issues of colonialism, power, and forgiveness. Basically, is the humanity and society in the world today.

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