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Topic: “Cloudstreet dwells on the human desire to find meaning in life.” Tim Winton expresses many themes in his novel “Cloudstreet”, one of which is about finding one’s place in the world and the search for the meaning of life. Basically all of the main characters in the novel experience this desire and battle to find it. In the beginning of the book, Oriel Lamb is a devoted religious woman, though all of this changes after Fish’s accident. She cannot come to terms with the fact that her son was brought back crippled. She questions why there is evil in the world and why good people have to suffer. Oriel does not understand why God had punished her since she was such a devoted and hard working woman. She becomes disappointed and angry with God, losing trust and almost excluding him from her life. She begins to surround herself even m