" "Fly Away Peter" charts Jim's loss of innocence as he confronts the brutality of war and the truth about human nature." DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. ... Here in Brisbane, Jim first encounters the truth about the callous nature of human beings, and the hypocritical nature of war. ... The hellish conditions of war evidently bring out the...

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Kanellis 3 We, as humans, are capable of controlling nature to some sort of degree, unlike any other animal on earth. ... Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. ... It eventually gets into the grass and corn and then into the bones of human beings and animals only to linger there until death" ("Contaminating the Environment"). ... In the short story "Devil Deer," by Rudolfo Anaya, Cruz comes across a deformed "devil deer" near a top-secret weapons laboratory at Los Alamos. ...

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In this one shot, the world witnessed tenderness and terror, desolation and fellowship and the power of human compassion, even during a bloody and ugly time. ... These photos lacked the brutal nature of war, but nevertheless they serve as a documentation of the look and logistics of mid-19th century warfare. ... The readers would be more engaged to the whole story if there were pictures to add to the words. ... The Vietnam War was a part of the Cold War and was meant to be a short and easy win for the Americans. But what was meant to be short, ended up dragging on for 21 years. ...

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