Climax:
Hazel realises that the thing that happened to Jack in WOII, wasn’t Antoinette, wasn’t his second cousin Margaret, WOII happened to Jack, with all its grandeur and all its brotherhood, all its adventures and all its intensity.
And ultimately, what happened to Jack was the immensity of war: its death, confusion and mystery.
• It was the war that killed him, not really his desire for Antoinette, not the homeland and not the fact that Hazel had lost her beauty.
• If you survive a war, nothing can match the intensity of a war, What is life after war?
,• If you survive a war, nothing can match the intensity of a war, What is life after war?
