The novel is also called My Brother Jack because of the fact that the author George Johnston, portrayed as David had a brother named Jack, with whom he shared a good relationship with and was also a prominent person in his life. Since Jack is the person in whom David has the greatest sense of identity and reverence, it may well be an appropriate title. In the novel My Brother Jack David often writes about Jack and recapitulates the episodes of his life with Jack. This is evident in a statement David made about his brother as he was travelling on a train.

'I saw him suddenly as a find of sunburnt Icarus, a freeman, buoyant and soaring in his own air, in the clear and boundless space of an element families yet new' (pg 294).

It is evident through examples, why the novel was called 'My Brother Jack'.

The title may suggest an account of Jack's life through the eyes of David. The perception you get is that Jack's life is of greater imp

4. The novel is to a big extent one of self-realisation. It is an autobiography on account of David Meredith's life. The novel starts out with David having very strong morals and Jack with not so many. The boys were brought up in a violent home. We later can see that Jack learnt from this experience, where as David not knowing any better took the path of his father. Jack learnt a lot about himself when he was training for the war, he became the real man that was inside of him.

ortance than David's. Shifting the novel focus from his own inadequacies, George Johnston tries to in fact get the reader to confront these issues.

'...I would also bring printed samples of work that Tom Middleton had done, and say that I had lithographed them;' (pg 83).

'...there was a look of absolute rightness about him...' (pg 291 David's thoughts on Jack).

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