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Themes, Genre, Context - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Women's employment
        
        During war: more opportunities, more freedom
        
        After war: less opportunities, less freedom
    - - Cultural enrichment
- - - - Fight against growth of fascism (dictatorial power)
        
        Impact of War
        
        Psychological
        
        Fear of the unknown
        
        'That Mr Hitler. Heaven knows what he's capable of'
        
        Japanese were perceived as a threatening presence on Australia's borders due to close proximity.
        
        Human loss and pain, emotional devastation
        
        Jack's death
        
        Pain for immediate family
        
        Lost a son
        
        Connie's pain
        
        Loss of the man she loves, the father of her unborn child. Means that the demise of a dream of family life.
        
        Dance after the war
        
        Marred by recognition that certain figures are absent from the crowd. Awareness that some would no longer be part of the community.
        
        Reformation/transformation
        
        Catalysed immigration
        
        Employment
        
        Loss of jobs: fewer opportunities for women to work, working class struggled
        
        Annabel's father lost work at the tannery
        
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        Annabelle can't afford a healthy living for her family. Forced to use 'mock meat' recipes
        
        Decades later: depicted
      - Kip's Chapter: Monday 7 August 1939 (1 month before war breaks out)
        
        Points of significance
        
        IXL factory
        
        The tannery
        
        St Kevin's (Catholic school)
      - During the war
        
        Human loss & pain
        
        Rationing of food and clothing
    - - Terrorist attack
        
        Impact
        
        Human loss and pain
        
        War is less defined by absence of familiar faces
        
        Reformation/transformation
        
        Hindered immigration
        
        Psychological
        
        Fear of the known induces strong sense of anxiety.
        Emotional trauma
        
        Another of Stanzi's clients reports that her six-year-old son has been traumatised by seeing televised images of planes crashing into the Twin Towers.
        
        Violet's shoplifting is increasing at the very time people are talking about a new war, despite the fact that the Middle East is a long way from the comfortable suburbs in which Violet spends her time
      - Stanzi's Chapter:Tuesday 25 September 2001 (3 weeks after 9/11)
- - - - Gender
        
        Women
        
        WWII: Role of care
        
        Men
        
        WWII: Breadwinners
      - Wealth
        
        Working class
        
        Richmond in WWII
        
        Kip, Connie, Jean, Francis during WWII
        
        Upper class
        
        Malvern, Toorak
        
        Kip and Annabel in 21st century
        
        Charlotte and Stanzi before Charlotte's pregnant
        
        Middle class
        
        Hustings
        
        Charlotte and Stanzi after Alec's born
        
        Upper-middle class
        
        Francis after becoming old
        
        Richmond