The characters in David Malouf's novel "Fly Away Peter" are used to show Jim Saddler who he is. Malouf shows this by describing Jim as innocent, naïve and patient. He describes what he wants the readers to see and the reader sees it in their heads. It helps by Malouf telling you about Jim's life, the terror, anger, happiness that Jim goes through to make him the man he becomes at the end of the novel.

The readers actually feel like they are in the novel, not just reading about it but also truly seeing something happen in front of their eyes. Malouf makes the readers feel the emotions that the characters are going through in the novel.

"Fly Away Peter" is a novel written about life and the war. Also Malouf shows in the novel what really happens in the war and how the soldiers feel...