Remebering Babylon

Title: Remebering Babylon
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 578 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

Remebering Babylon

“`Do not shoot´, it shouted `I am a B-b-british object!´.” These are the first words spoken by the main character Gemmy in the novel “Remembering Babylon”. Gemmy Fairley enters the environment of a distant Australian settlement having spent 16 years of his life living with the aborigines. He has lost contact to his past British background, to his language and cultural identity. In the Scottish settlement his past identity begins to reconstruct itself piece by piece, …showed first 75 words of 578 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 578 total…of school exercises. Gemmy believes they are the actual manuscripts of his life and he runs away from the village into to the swamp forest where he lets the rain wash of the writing on the papers. “Rain had begun to wash the writing from them, the names, the events…” (181) The written life of Gemmy on the papers is reality to him, he is authentic enough to realize that symbols are not only meanings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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