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This is when Hart is in the hospital and is getting looked after by his sister as she was a nurse that worked in the hospital.

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You could say that Misty and I enjoy a kind of friendship now. We’d started off as friends, were lovers for a while and then there was hate and indifference. Now friendship has replaced all of that, but a friendship that can’t offer or ask too much.” Pg.150

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“She’d simply been my sister, simply younger than me, and simply Mitsy Sennuosuke’s best friend.” (Pg.58)

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“Now I saw less and less of them. I felt friendless, in need of a friend.” Pg. 22

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“No, it was the loss of Mitsy’s friendship that paralysed her the most.” (Pg.81)

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This quote suggests that the mother didn’t approve of Mitsy’s friendship with Alice due to Mitsy being Japanese

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This comes to show how Hart’s mother was quite against Hart being friends with Mitsy, and this would’ve been because other races weren’t accepted in Broome by everyone, such as Hart’s mother. This would’ve made it harder for Hart to get closer to Mitsy as his mother was constantly pushing Mitsy and her family away.

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“And she (Ida Penrose) certainly didn’t approve of our friendship with the Sennosuke family.” Pg. 5

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This is referring to how Hart’s relationship with Mitsy weakens, as Jamie comes in, and forms a strong relationship with Mitsy. Hart feels betrayed by Jamie, as Jamie is meant to be a good friend.

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“But what will make them endure as friends? Their similarity to us? Their utter difference from us? I knew only that I’d lost Misty’s friendship.” Pg. 21

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“We often make friends for the weakest of reasons—proximity, for example, or shared experience, or laziness or need— but what will make them endure as friends? Their similarity to us? Their utter difference from us? (Pg.21)

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“But it was possible that she felt bad about that now, and was saying she wanted to be friends again” pg.85

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“You could say that this is a story about friendship, and the betrayal of friendship, friendships lost and regained.” (Pg.21)

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The novel suggests that friendships can be irrevocably damaged by prejudice, fear and insecurity.

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“...when someone who had been our friends were now treated as aliens, transfigured by enemity and fear.” ~ pg 1

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“My mother didn’t approve, but Mitsy was Alice’s best friend, and, given that Alice is only a year younger than me, Mitsy became my friend, too.” (Pg.8)

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“Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don’t, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed.” (Pg.21)