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Divine Wind Text Response This novel is about friendships: those that are positive and lasting and those that are weak and break down. The Divine Wind is about friends and relationships mostly, but other issues are raised as well. In the book none of the friendships/relationships are totally positive and lasting – they all go through weak spots, but it’s only the true friendships that begin again or survive. It’s more about strong and weak friendships. Hart and Mitsy’s relationship proves this. It was the main theme of the novel (so it was gone through in a lot of detail). Hart says friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don’t, or as we form other alliances, or we betray friends or we ourselves are betrayed (21). All these things happen between Hart and Mitsy and yet their friendship endures, eventually. First there’s the incident with derby – where Mitsy sees Harts reaction as a betrayal.