In the novel, Yellow flowers in the Antipodean room, written by Janet .
Frame, Godfrey Rainbird is the protagonist. He is an ordinary young .
man, accepted by society, who is drawn by chance into a " journey" .
from life to death, and back to life again. Conversely, his " death".
alters everyone's attitude toward him, which forces Godfrey to isolate himself from the society that inflicts cruelties upon him. He drifts away from " a society of superstition and prejudice"pg.138 and creates an authentic imagination within himself. The protagonist's quest into the unknown, and his fight back from peole" discriminations and cruelties upon Godfrey's " returns " from where people do not return"pg.139 is the intention of this paper.
The protagonist's quest into the unknow and his fight back from the severities he faces upon his return from where people do not return is the intetntion of this paper. .
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Godfrey Rainbird takes an unplanned journey into the region of .
death and "reclaims" his life while he regains consciousness in the morgue. However, his revival is not seen as a miracle but rather as an inconvenience which is illustrated in the following quotation: .
"He lay in a coma when he opened his eyes the fact that he made a personal and local history was overshadowed by the immediate fact of the shrieks and faints that afflicted the attendants in the hospital mortuary, and the disruption of routine, temper, credulity and reputation in the hospital itself Ten o"clock Tuesday morning. Morning teatime. An inconvenient time in any institution." Pg.39.
The above quotation foreshadows the torment and cruelties that Godfrey .
faces in his life because he is no longer accepted by Dunedin society. .
Moreover, his revival is not only seen as an inconvenience by the hospital .
staff but also by the rest of the society and his own family. His incident .
invokes fear and disbelief in people because " the pronouncement of his .