The Divine Wind
The Divine Wind by Garry Disher is a historical romance that deals with issues -- Hart with the people around hart and some series of things happen to them. Their story takes place before and after the war, during a lot of things were happening: the protagonists grew up together with their relatives, many people came and went, and some are forever leave them. The relation between friendship and love are two of the main themes. Another theme is young people forced to grow up quickly.
The story is set in Broome in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. It discusses the racism that was dramatically thrown towards the Japanese and Aboriginal people as the war was approaching, the love that Hart felt for the young Japanese girl Mitsy, and most importantly the friendships that the four of them had. Quite close to the beginning of the novel Hart states, "You could say that this is a story about friendship, and the betrayal of friendship, and friendships lost and regained." This quote is very true. Throughout the novel there are samples of this statement. For example, when Hart befriends Jamie Killian loses Mitsy’s friendship, all because of her thinking that Hart was on his mother’s racial side when she catches her two children Hart and Alice with a drunken Aboriginal Derby Boxer and Mitsy, also when Misty and Hart become lovers at a later time in their late teens.
The relationship between Hart and Mitsy is placed under strain by these three factors: Their relationship from childhood friend to a lover. After break up still miss each other, but they already knew that they could not go back to like before. In the war, their relationship degenerated into a sexual relationship without love. Finally became a strange "friend". The biggest reason is the war and race, it has changed their lives. With the war hanging over them, Misty and Hart find it hard to keep their love alive. Mitsy was seen as the enemy because she is Jap. Despite his best intentions, Hart seems to see Mitsy
The story is set in Broome in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. It discusses the racism that was dramatically thrown towards the Japanese and Aboriginal people as the war was approaching, the love that Hart felt for the young Japanese girl Mitsy, and most importantly the friendships that the four of them had. Quite close to the beginning of the novel Hart states, "You could say that this is a story about friendship, and the betrayal of friendship, and friendships lost and regained." This quote is very true. Throughout the novel there are samples of this statement. For example, when Hart befriends Jamie Killian loses Mitsy’s friendship, all because of her thinking that Hart was on his mother’s racial side when she catches her two children Hart and Alice with a drunken Aboriginal Derby Boxer and Mitsy, also when Misty and Hart become lovers at a later time in their late teens.
The relationship between Hart and Mitsy is placed under strain by these three factors: Their relationship from childhood friend to a lover. After break up still miss each other, but they already knew that they could not go back to like before. In the war, their relationship degenerated into a sexual relationship without love. Finally became a strange "friend". The biggest reason is the war and race, it has changed their lives. With the war hanging over them, Misty and Hart find it hard to keep their love alive. Mitsy was seen as the enemy because she is Jap. Despite his best intentions, Hart seems to see Mitsy