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In an essay of not more than 1500 words explain how this statement informs your reading of The Colour Purple, and one other prose fiction text form Literature and Gender.
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Keiran Austin, Yr 11 English, Mrs Ferguson THE DIVINE WIND BY GARY DISHER The description of the situation in Broome portrayed in The Divine Wind is a complete accurate account of the events that occurred during 1938- 1946. Practically everything in the novel was precise including the description of Broome, the Japanese internees, the dates and things as detailed as street names. It is quite obvious that Garry Disher had studied the town in depth before writing the novel. The fact that Broome is described as a pearling town with a tropical existence is true. As quoted in The Divine Wind "Broome was a straggling mile of wood and corrugated- iron shops and dwellings" (pg 1and). This quote is a precise vision of what Broome would have looked like judging by descriptions from various sources of information and photos from that period in time. Even though the characters are made fiction the...
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