![]() ![]() All of the secondary characters are interesting and well-formed without being distracting. ![]() While I appreciate the way it demonstrates Jean's dedication to the town/environment and the town's acceptance of her, it could have been considerably shorter or had a more climatic outcome. The only part where my eye started to wander was during the rescue scene near the end. Instead of distancing the narration, it lets us see Jean through the eyes of someone who loves her and who passes that love onto the reader. Shute's decision to narrate the novel from the perspective of Noel, instead of Jean Paget was an effective choice. It is a story of rare individual courage in the face of certain death, and hope in the face of despair. This is the story of one woman, of her ordeal, and of how she was saved by the sacrifice of an Australian soldier. At journey’s end only thirty will still be alive. Eight hundred women and children begin a twelve-hundred-mile journey on foot across Japanese-occupied Malaya. ![]()
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