Bravery In Break Of Day

Tony palmers narrative ‘Break of Day’ depicts the themes of family, bravery and death. The plot of the story is about two brothers named Will and Murray. Will is the oldest of the two. Will went to war to deal with his emotions about the marriage of of his childhood sweetheart and Sid Archer. Murray later followed his older brother to the war because of the pain he was caused from his brother leaving and the death of his dad in a fir and also Sid archer insinuating that theere uncle jack had been a coward in WW1.

One thing in the book ‘Break of Day’ Tony Palmer focuses on is family. And example of this is when Murray hit his brother because the thought it was Sid Archer (pg 61) and he was going to hit Sid becase he called his uncle Jack a coward. Everyone knew not to trust Sid but Murray couldnt help but wonderwhat her meant by what he had said. In the end it was all okay and it shows us that not everything people say is true and that if something is said about your family by somebody else you probably shouldnt beleive it. …show more content…
Bravery is a big thing both inside and outside of war. Murray shoes us that by having the courage to go to war and he also shows us that when he has to deal with all kinds of things at home like his dads death and when his childhood sweetheaqrt gets married to Sid.On pg 37 Murrays father loaded a rifle and held it out to him. All Muarray did was bow his head and look at his feet. He had shown no bravery at all, only cowardness. He let his older brother Will shoot their dog Paddy. Neither of them could speak “He had demanded courage and all i’d had to offer was weakness” Murray had said. He may not have shown bravery then but he did show bravery when he went to war to fight off the Japanese. Sometimes people can start off as cowards but they can learn to be