The Divine Wind; war changes people

In ‘the divine wind’, Disher shows us that war does change things; in fact everything changes in one way or another. Many things become stronger, while others become weakened.

Before the war people accepted the Japanese as second-class citizens. Hart and Mitsy were friends and nothing was said. Once war broke out though, Japanese people were treated as enemies, merely there as spies and not to be trusted. Even hart lets the atmosphere of hatred get to him by calling Mitsy a ‘bitch’ when he finds out they Alice was captured by the Japanese. Aborigines were never anything more than slaves to Australians ‘Most European households employed at least a gardener and a house-girl’. Once war broke out many Australians believed that...