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Regardless of whether a threat is real or imaginary fear affects an individual In David Maloufs novel Remembering Babylon fear affects the individual and consequently the relationships that the characters involve themselves in Fear can be the starting point or ending point of a relationship or both and can also bring fluctuations during the course of a relationship Some relationships that are affected by fear in Remembering Babylon include those between Gemmy and the settlers the settlers and the land and Gemmy and Willet However one of the most important relationships in the novel and one of the relationships that is influence most heavily by fear is the one between Gemmy and Lachlan The first chapter of Remembering Babylon starts off the novel with the notion of fear in the readers mind The fear recalled in this chapter is that of when Gemmy and the children Meg Janet and Lachlan first encounter one another The fear that is evident is focused mainly on that felt by Gemmy and Lachlan as it is their relationship that is most affected by it On first seeing Gemmy the children are afraid of him and what he represents the blacks Their fear is shown by their reactions as the two girls had given a gasp one sharp intake of breath Lachlans first thought on seeing Gemmy is that they are being raided by blacks The fear that the children experience is a result of their upbringing in this foreign land They have been taught that the indigenous Australians are going to raid them and after so many false alarms this was about to happen Although the reasons for the children being afraid were based on unsubstantiated assumptions the fear that they were experiencing was real In the same way that the children are afraid of the creature Gemmy is afraid of the children The aggressive stance that Lachlan takes on and the use of the stick as a
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