... an abusive father, would have been too terrible to tell for most. George Johnston portrays this time in his novel "My Brother Jack", through the eyes of Davy Meredith, a young boy, (who in turn is portrayed unmistakably as a young Johnston), who develops into a young man. The cultural influences of this era shaped the men that both the young ... boy and his older brother, Jack, developed into. The Meredith household described just after the war is one of the main influences that would affect the two boys later in their ... flow of hidden currents, a clod falling and dissolving, a slid...

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