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The Light Between Oceans: Summary

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The book ‘The Light Between Oceans’ is a romance war novel. The setting starts in december of 1918 right after the first world war in a place called Janus Rock, Australia. The two main characters Tom and his wife Isabel have an irresistible story. Tom just coming back from war and seeing Isabel, the only one smiling with joy while feeding bread to some birds, Toms focus was caught and life was put into a whole new perspective. From the bloody battles to a harmless game to see how many seagulls the two could attract, Tom's life had been turned around for the better. With Tom only passing through on his way to Janus, he didn’t see much of Isabel but a nice dinner with some people from town. When Tom arrived at the lighthouse, where he was now …show more content…

Isabel was making herself at home, by exploring the island and adding to the map, she found a new love begin to grow. As time went on Isabel was bearing a child, exited and full of joy Isabel wrote to her mother back home “with the news of the expected arrival” (78). A letter was not sent from Tom, for his family was in the past and not to continue to the future, as his mother is dead and his father a cold man, he wanted no part in that life anymore, he focused on a rocking chair for his soon to be child. Time went on and a storm came, one that kept Tom with the light, and Isabel safely in bed. The storm thundered and defend Tom from Isabel's cries of help. The blood, covering Isabel and soaking the bed, she has lost the child. That’s when Isabel's life changed, everything had become dull, the room now a coffin she was trapped in “life had stopped at its edges” (90). Day passed and the couple grieved but chores didn’t stop, just as the light, the days went on. Completing chores outside Isabel heard a cry thought to be of her imagination, Tom cried “from the gallery - ‘on the beach! A boat!’” (100) this had Isabel running for the

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