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'But he and Jim had, at first sight almost, got to the bottome of one another.' p. 64

'Enemies, like friends, told you who you were.' p. 64

Key passages: pp 61, 97, 99, 100, 103.

Characters

THANK YOU!

Name: Natalie Stewart

Contact: MLC

Key passages: pp. 64, 93, 95.

Bibliography:

Malouf, D. Fly Away Peter, Vintage 1999.

Bob Cleese

& Eric

Wizzer

Key passages:

pp. 73, 75, 84, 87, 88

'...the baleful look his father turned on the world had no reason, it simply was.' p. 6.

Ashley

"He approved of change.' p. 9.

Jim's Father

Key passages: pp. 3, 4, 5, 7,9-13, 31, 35,56, 113, 129, 132.

Jim

Key passages: pp. 6, 48, 55, 56, 58, 132, 138.

'So they became partners, all three...' p. 29

Imogen

Clancy

'...she often made these distinctions, putting things clearer, moving them into sharper focus.' p. 28

'...always in trouble... someone {Jim} wouldn't want to be without.' p. 60

Key passages: pp. 20-28, 48, 50, 57, 111, 137.

Key passages:

pp. 59, 60, 67, 76, 85.

A novel of two halves?

Living in a ‘state of dangerous innocence’ p. 103

Death of his younger brother a strange premonition? ‘the inhuman shriek – he had thought it was some new and unknown bird entering the field’ p. 103

Setting

Coastal Queensland - swampland

Chapters 1-8

Sanctuary/Garden of Eden

(Tranquility, harmony and peace)

Brisbane

Chapter 5

Europe - Before the fighting

Chapters 9-11

(Innocence endangered)

France - war in trenches

Chapters 11-17

Hell

Queensland/Beach

Chapter 18

Eternity and nature

Style/Features

of Text

  • Lists
  • Metaphors
  • Allusions
  • Repetition
  • Shorter sentences
  • Graphic/'thisness'/exactness
  • 3rd Person omniscient
  • Italics: private thoughts of characters in 1st person POV
  • Nature overwhelming
  • Put human existence into perspective
  • Poetic
  • Haunting
  • Evocative
  • Focus on thoughts and feelings of characters as opposed to what characters look like
  • Free indirect style: Malouf manipulates the narrator and characters allowing the reader insight into thoughts and feelings at his discretion
  • Long 'flowy' sentences

Final Considerations...

Themes

  • Foreshadowing
  • Use of colour
  • Ordinary becoming extraordinary
  • Discovery
  • Change
  • Water as enemy
  • Air - deadly
  • Flashbacks

'Tilt'

'Jim felt the ground tilting... to the place where the war was...' p. 56.

  • Understanding one's world
  • Understanding man and the nature of violence
  • Understanding man and his special quality
  • Life, its purpose and its joy

Key passages: pp. 37, 38, 39, 56.

Maps

'He had a map of all this clearly in his head...' p. 2

Key passages: pp. 2, 54, 55, 62, 111, 122.

Machines

Jim's father: 'And their machines!'

Bert and his 'flying machines' pp. 2, 3, 51.

Automobiles p. 6.

Machine guns pp.92, 104, 115. 'Parapet Joe' p 52.

Planes as weapons p. 52.

War as 'murderous machine' p. 106.

Guns as '... deadly sewing machines' p. 115.

Cigarette is a 'cloud machine' p. 121.

Lists

Historical Context

List making/cataloguing:

Birds, soldiers.

Key passages: pp. 1, 44, 59.

World War 1 - 1914-1918

Federation of Australia - 1901

ANZAC legend

Naming

Need for permanency/recording

'...and in that way possessing them.' (p. 7)

'It was giving the creature, through its name, a permanent place in the world’

(p. 44)

‘It was the names of the places … that Jim loved to hear.’ (p. 59)

‘Everything here had been renamed and then named again.’ (p. 76)

‘It seemed more important than ever now to hang on to the names…’ (p. 112)

Perspective and Seeing

Consider:

Ground level: observing birds/in the trenches.

Upright: how humans move throughout the world.

Above: from the bi-plane/bird's eye view/in death.

Binary Opposites

  • Two sides of the world
  • North and south
  • Old and new
  • Sophisticated and crude
  • Past and present
  • War-torn and peaceful
  • Life and death
  • Ignorance and knowledge
  • Happiness and sorrow
  • Youth and age
  • Love and hate

Malouf's Central Concerns

(Monuments p. 13,

Primaeval world p. 31, Mammoth p. 102)

  • Continuity
  • Change
  • Past & present
  • Place & self
  • Man's place in the world
  • Essence of man's nature
  • Individual
  • Humanity
  • Worth/purpose of life

'Is that it? Jim wondered. Is that how it always must be?' p. 128

'So much of what a man was existed within and was known only to himself...' p. 41

A life wasn't for anything, it simply was.'

p. 140.

Fly Away Peter

by David Malouf

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