Growing up on the prairie
As we travel through our lives we come to road blocks and other turmoil's. In W.O. Mitchell's novel Who has seen the wind, we learn about some of the struggles Brian (the main character) encounters as he grows up in Saskatchewan during the Depression. The focus of the story is Brian's interpretation of the realities of birth, death and religion.
When Brian is four years old he comes into his first experience of birth, when his pet baby pigeon is born. While the story continues Brian starts to attending school and experiencing birth in full swing. …
