Fly away peter

Fly Away Peter The language in chapter two of David Malouf's Fly Away Peter conveys a very strong sense of landscape as it uses many language devices to do so. 'The land was a flat circle all round, grass-tips, trees stumps, bush...' (Page sixteen, paragraph two) and 'the landscape, the whole great circle of it, grass-heads, scrubs, water, sky...' (Page seventeen paragraph three) show the use of listing physical features of the environment …

…share the same passion of nature. As Jim was raised with a negative and abusive relationship with his father, and Ashley went to England at a young age for educational purposes, they were both deprived form their parents care and love, the land however has replaced that love, that gap that's missing. They can relate. Most of all chapter two shows a mate-ship developing between these two young men, through their common beliefs and passions.