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An individual’s life, identity, and their relationship with other people can be impacted by the suffering and loss that war and its aftermath bring. Australian composers address these issues in their novel to convey the Australian identity. Australia composer Sue Lawson explores and creates images of the Australian identity through their actions, words and personality. Showing the effects of war not just of immediate generation but those who follow war. In exploring clear features and techniques of the Novel FINDING DARCY we find that the protagonist and antagonist eventually connect and interact with each other. This created an image of Australia as it portrays an experience many Australians felt and still feel today from a war.
The theme of war is introduced to us through the use of visual imagery on the books cover. Alone stands a red poppy flower which symbolises the lost and dead soldiers of the Australian war. The image’s powerful meaning combined with the title FINDING DARCY is not just about finding Darcy Abbott at present but about discovering Darcy …show more content…

They are first presented as women who don’t get along with each other through the nicknames with a negative implication and Darcy complaining about them. Throughout the novel there is a growth in their relationship as they all connect together by what tore them apart, the War. We know that Darcy is close to Misery and Batty but they do not connect with each other since her mother knows it is fine for Darcy to live with them for a while, but Darcy doesn’t want to because she dislikes the way they are and how they don’t connect to her. The reasons towards this are because Misery and Batty have lost a loved one at war which has affected the way they act with each other and to others. Darcy does not see this but eventually discovers though an external force the reason to why they both act the way they

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