Fly Away Peter Analysis Essay

Through out the book Fly Away Peter, Jim Saddler has grown from innocent to mature and even to death. This seems worry a stave of nature. People born and people die. In this novel, I think the novel is trying to convey the idea of regeneration than how Jim changed throughout the story. diversity is an important theme of Maloufs Fly Away Peter. According to the novel everything regenerates, and not only in the physical sense, but also in the unearthly sense too. The term regenerate means to bring back again or bring out something sensitive in our a state of wareness of life. Its occurrence stool be seen throughout the book and it includes the digging by the hoar man, the digging by Jim at the end of the novel, the fact birds come and go with old ones replaced by natural ones and how Jims spirit survives on as the early surfer in the eyes of Miss Harcourt. They are all regenerations that are part of the cycle of life.Earth is associated with the cycle of life as it is a sign o f birth, where lives stem from. Soil has always been where the life starts, this can been seen in the novel, It (earth) was a smell that belonged to the rise of things (life). It is clear that soil is where life stems from it is where plants receive their nutrients in order for in the raw life and this is why the old man is digging, he is digging to plant new lives. Even though there is a war going on around him, he still prepares the field for the seeds, because he understands that live still goes on in all circumstances. It is through the plants from the seeds can new lives stem out of the ground and it is all part of the regenerations. The discovery of the mammoth was a great inquire and a rebirth of knowledge, it uncovers the past and puts new meanings and knowledge in our life as we learn about the past. Therefore, soil not only regenerates physically with new lives but also new understandings of life.Birds play an important role in the book as a sign of life. Birds have alw ays been associated with life and emancipation just like what the novel suggests Birds were of life. Every year they migrate to different places, yet it is not the same birds that come and go every year. The old birds get replacedby young birds and it is all part of the cycle of life. Also, like the old man digging, they carry on with their life unaffected by the war this can be seen from the quote Even here, in the thick of the fighting, there were birds. It is apparent that despites the chaos, death and horrors happening down below, the birds can still regenerate and live the way nature intended them to.Through the young surfer, there is a sense of the rebirth of Jim spiritually in Imogens mind. The young surfer at the end of the novel is essentially the new Jim for Imogen, although they are not the same person, it is as if Jim has dug through the earth to come back as the young surfer. Imogen recognises this, and understands that no matter what happens life goes on like the way waves never stop. Both of them never ending and Imogen realises that there is other people in the gentleman that will have the image of Jim.Regeneration is an important theme of the novel, all things in life regenerates, from the birds to our minds, from the earths to the oceans, it occurs at every level of the world. With regeneration, it also brings us new meanings of life and increases our knowledge and awareness of our surroundings therefore regeneration is essential to our life.