death clings to him, close to his skin," pg. 55 wherever he goes. .
Godfrey is cast out from the Dunedin .
society because his experience is perceived as a frighten, abnormal, and .
inconvenient miracle. Janet Frame's protagonist however, is nothing out of .
the ordinary, there is nothing unusual about him and he is widely aceepted .
by soceity until he undergoes .
an atypical experience, that changes everyone's attitude towards him. One .
night while he is coming home he is struck by a car and pronounced dead. .
However, he has merely been in a deep coma, and is discharged from the .
hospital the next day to return home. Moreover, through his incident Godfrey discovers the importance of not losing his contact with the " .
real now" This is portrayed in the following quotation .
He was standing upright, he was alive; if he trod carefully he would stay alive but it was important to tread carefully, to make sure no one else usurped his position, to hold fast to his wife and children and house and garden and lawn and tools, to surround himself with life in the hope that life, following the example set before it, would once again flow into him. Pg.89 .
He hopes that if life flows into him he will once again be view as normal by .
the people in the Dunian society and there won't be anything unusual about .
him. Furthermore, in this stage of his development Godfrey tries to find his .
"old self" to cling on to it in order to secure himself and his place in society; .
to once again lead peaceful and ordinary life in New Zealand. Moreover, he hopes that if he is careful he will be able from preventing anything dangerous or strange from happened to him ever again. .
Despite of what happened Godfrey expresses his profound need to be welcomed back into society. Desperately wanting to believe that his first day of work since his accident will be just like all others, he tries to be optimistic. This is represented by the following quotation :.