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Hilliard’s experience of war renders his home life meaning less. With close reference to the text, demonstrate how Susan Hill conveys this to the reader.
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Hilliard's experience of war renders his home life meaning less. With close reference to the text, demonstrate how Susan Hill conveys this to the reader. Hilliard's time at home tells us a great deal of his experience at war. When he compares the two worlds, his life before the war seems meaningless to him. When he returns home, he finds that he does not fit in with life anymore, and thinks that he never will again. This is strongly conveyed in the opening of the novel. He knows nothing about normal life anymore. ' Knew everything. Nothing.' He has found out so much about life and death, but feels that it has obliterated all that he knew to be normal. At war, Hilliard feels that he doesn't know himself anymore. He comes up against aspects of his personality that don't seem to matter anymore. There are lots of references of Hilliard's...
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