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“We Do To Understand” I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius Just as Confucius stated, that we need to do to understand, so to does Jim Saddler, the protagonist of the novel, realises that he must go to war and experience it for himself to gain a better understanding of things. Jim comes to understand a number of things during the novel Fly Away Peter by David Malouf, set on the peaceful Gold Coast before, and in war torn Europe during World War One. Jim comes to understand that in order to comprehend why things change he must experience them for himself, and that the different things he experiences also change him. He also comes to understand life’s continuity and life’s transience. As Jim is learns more of the war, he decides that in order to understand why everything has changed after the war he would have to go himself. Jim is a self-assured man and prefers to know things for himself. This is evident in the fact that he uses the field glasses, provided by Jim’s friend and boss Ashley Crowther, to capture the birds in his focus so that he is able to completely u