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Murray Barrett's Life In Break Of Day By Tony Palmer

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“Break of Day” is a novel by Tony Palmer. The main persona in this novel is Murray Barrett. Throughout the text, we explore the following themes: death, bravery and family. This novel shows how the death of someone so close to you can have a large impact on one's life. In the book Murray Barrett struggles through life because he had to figure out uncle jacks secret. As Murray goes into war he eventually finds himself upon Sid Archer. Even at the verge of death Murray was still focused on finding out his uncles WW1 experience. In the chapter William barrette, Will finds a box containing uncle jack's old belongings. On page 13,14,15 Murray continues to question uncle jack. Uncle jack in general had returned from war a changed man; although he may have been alive he wasn't quite living. …show more content…

On page 107-108 it shows Frank and Murray burying the unidentified soldier. In war there is a lot of collateral damage. In this particular scene, Frank and Murray contemplate what to do with his corpse. In accordance to this Murray suggest to bury him and say a few words. In war things are a lot more different to what everyone does on a daily basis, because each choice is a matter of life and death. Seeing dead body every minute or so becomes a normal thing to see in war “i’ll bet there’ll be a few more like him in the next few days”. Perhaps uncle jack had suffered a lot of real emotional and physical pain during the great war. When he returned he may have viewed the world differently seeing that everyone took life for

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