Flanagan’s profound novel ambitiously explores the significance of literature and the ways in which texts, as cultural products, represent ideas as well as past events. GradeSaver, 10 January 2019 Web.The study of Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road To The Deep North, first published in 2013, allows students to develop an understanding of language, culture and identity. Next Section Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Previous Section Quotes How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North Study Guide: Analysis'. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. To be honest with Ella would involve explaining that he doesn't really like her romantically, so instead, he keeps to himself forever, right until he dies. So, not only does he settle on Ella, but also, he bears his trauma completely alone. Because he was told Amy had died, he passed on the only opportunity he had to find the companion he wanted. When he gets back to civilian life, he has absolutely no analog to explain himself to anyone, and the one person he desperately loves and missed during his imprisonment is Amy, who had died in a horrible explosion-so he thought. When he tries to save Darky, the guards stop him and offer him medicine to help the camp's dying ill, and he accepts their offer and leaves his own nephew (unbeknownst to him at the time) to die.

Primarily Dorrigo feels two kinds of guilt-the guilt of his affair with Amy, and the guilt of his sacrificing Darky. Then there is the emotional element of guilt and shame. Firstly, there is the horror element, the actual terror of Dorrigo being in a life threatening situation as a prisoner of a brutal enemy during war. The novelist uses two threads to help capture what he sensed in his father's demeanor as a distance, damaged person. In any case, the true story centers on the emotional damage that war carnage caused Dorrigo during his longterm imprisonment at a Japanese POW camp in WWII. This means that the book is semi-biographical, and that one of the three children in Dorrigo and Ella's family is the author. Also, it exists to capture a true story for the purpose of human betterment-his own father's story. This is a three part novel designed to explore the true psychological and emotional effects of warfare on a human being.

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