Fly Away Peter

"It is the repetitions and contrasts in the events, characters, settings, or use of language in a text which often consolidate our understanding of it." In what ways did repetitions and contrasts in one of the texts guide your understanding? ‘What’s life all about?’ is the question that David Malouf puts to his readers in the novella Fly Away Peter. He has created repetitions and contrasts in events, characters and settings that help a …

…Peter, fly away Paul. Come back Peter, come back Paul." All of the themes and images in Fly Away Peter are significant in helping the reader to understand the many different ideas that are conveyed. David Malouf’s use of repetition and contrast helps to enhance these themes and ideas, and definitely gives the reader an understanding of the underlying message in his book "A life wasn’t for anything. It simply was." (p.132). 973 words.