Frame, Godfrey Rainbird is the protagonist. He is an ordinary young

man, accepted by society, who is drawn by chance into a “ journey”

from life to death, and back to life again. Conversely, his “ death”

alters everyone’s attitude toward him, which forces Godfrey to isolate himself from the society that inflicts cruelties upon him. He drifts away from “ a society of superstition and prejudice”pg.138 and creates an authentic imagination within himself. The protagonist’s quest into the unknown, and his fight back from peole’ discriminations and cruelties upon Godfrey’s “ returns “ from where people do not return”pg.139 is the intention of this paper.

The protagonist’s quest into the unknow and his fight back from the severities he faces upon his return from where people do not return is the intetntion of this paper.

Godfrey Rainbird takes an unplanned journey into the region of

death and “reclaims” his life while he regains consciousness in the morgue. However, his revival is not seen as a miracle but rather as an inconvenience which is illustrated in the following quotation:

Godfrey is cast out from the Dunedin

society because his experience is perceived as a frighten, abnormal, and

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