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A Town Like Alice Free FREE A TOWN LIKE ALICE PDF Nevil Shute | 368 pages | 23 Apr 2015 | Vintage Publishing | 9781784870027 | English | London, United Kingdom A Town Like Alice Summary | SuperSummary Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malayaand after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to generate economic prosperity in a small outback community—to turn it into "a town like Alice" i. Alice Springs. In post-World War II London, Jean Paget, a secretary in a leather goods factory, is informed by solicitor Noel Strachan that she has inherited A Town Like Alice considerable sum of money from an A Town Like Alice she never knew. But the solicitor is now A Town Like Alice trustee and she only has the use of the income until she inherits absolutely, at the age of thirty-five, several years in the future. In the firm's interest, but increasingly with personal interest, Strachan acts as her guide and advisor. Jean decides that her priority is to build a well in a Malayan village. The second part of the story flashes back to Jean's experiences during the war, when she was working in Malaya at the time the Japanese invaded and was taken prisoner A Town Like Alice with a group of A Town Like Alice and children. As she speaks Malay fluently, Jean takes a leading role in the group of prisoners. The Japanese refuse all responsibility for the group and march A Town Like Alice from one village to another. Many of them, not used to physical hardship, die. Jean meets an Australian soldier, Sergeant Joe Harman, also a prisoner, who is driving a lorry for the Japanese and they strike up A Town Like Alice friendship. He steals food and medicines to help them. Jean is carrying a toddler, whose mother has died, and this leads Harman to believe that she is married; to avoid complications, Jean does not correct this assumption. On one occasion, Harman steals five chickens from the local Japanese commander. The thefts are investigated and Harman takes the blame to save Jean and the rest of the group. He is beaten, crucified, A Town Like Alice left to die by the Japanese soldiers. The women are marched away, believing that he is dead. When their sole Japanese guard dies, the women become part of a Malayan village community. They live and work there for three years, until the war ends and they are repatriated. Now a wealthy woman at least on paperJean decides she wants to build a well for the village so that the women will not have to walk so far to collect water: "A gift by women, for women". Strachan arranges for her to travel to Malaya, where she goes back to the village and persuades the headman to allow her to build the well. While it is being built, she discovers that, by a strange chance, Joe Harman survived his punishment and returned to Australia. She decides to travel on to Australia to find him. On her travels, she visits the town of Alice Springswhere Joe lived before the war, and is much impressed with the quality of life there. She A Town Like Alice travels to the fictional primitive town of Willstown in the Queensland outbackwhere Joe has become manager of a cattle station. She soon discovers that the quality of life in "Alice" is an anomaly, and life for a woman in the outback is elsewhere very rugged. Willstown is described as "a fair cow". Meanwhile, Joe has met a pilot who helped repatriate the women, from whom he learns that Jean survived the war and that she was never married. He travels to London to find her, using money won in the Golden Casket lottery. He finds his way to Strachan's office, but is told that she has gone travelling in the Far East. Disappointed, he gets drunk and is arrested, but is bailed out by Strachan. Without revealing Jean's actual whereabouts, Strachan persuades Joe to return home by ship and intimates that he may well receive a great surprise there. While staying in Willstown, awaiting Joe's return, Jean learns that most young girls have to leave the town to find work in the bigger cities. Having worked with a A Town Like Alice in Britain that produced crocodile-leather luxury goods, she gets the idea of founding a local workshop to make shoes from the skins of crocodiles hunted in the outback. With the help of Joe and of Noel Strachan, who releases money from her inheritance, she starts the workshop, followed by a string of other businesses; an ice-cream parlour, a public swimming pool and shops. The third part of the book shows how Jean's entrepreneurship gives a decisive economic impact to develop Willstown into "a town like Alice"; also Jean's help in rescuing an injured stockman, which breaks down many local barriers. The story closes a few years later, with an aged Noel Strachan visiting Willstown to see what has been done with the money he has given Jean to invest. He reveals that the money which Jean inherited was originally made in an Australian gold rush, and he is satisfied to see the money returning to the site of its making. Jean and Joe name their second son Noel, and ask Strachan to be his godfather. They invite Noel Strachan to make his home with them in Australia, but he declines the invitation, returns to Britain and the novel closes. In a note to the text, Shute wrote that a forced march of women by the Japanese did indeed take place during World War II, but the women in question were Dutch, not British as in the novel, and the march was in Sumatra, not Malaya. Geysel-Vonckwhom Shute met while visiting Sumatra in However, the Nevil Shute Foundation states that this was a misunderstanding, and that the women were merely transported from prison camp to prison camp by the Japanese. This was possibly the luckiest misunderstanding of his life He had later escaped execution a second time, when his " last meal " of chicken and beer could not be obtained. Crucifixion or Haritsuke was a form of punishment or torture that the Japanese sometimes used against prisoners during the war. The fictional "Willstown" is reportedly based on Burketown and Normanton in Queensland, which Shute visited in Their inclusion by the author was likely unintentional, and serve simply to enhance that accuracy of the picture his words are painting of what daily life included, both in London in England and in the cities, towns and outback of Australia. Sexism appears in the opening pages of the book, as solicitor Noel Strachan interacts with Jean's uncle and eventual benefactor, James McFadden. When asked if A Town Like Alice, having become the sole beneficiary of his estate, should receive her inheritance upon turning 21, he replies "I think that would be most A Town Like Alice, Mr. Strachan, if I may say so. No Lassie would be fit to administer her own estate when she was twenty-one. A lassie of that age is at the mercy of her sex. I would want the trust to continue for much longer than that. Till she was forty, at the very least". Strachan eventually convinces McFadden to reduce this requirement to age 35, it is interesting [ according to whom? As a single woman traveling on her own through the A Town Like Alice outback, A Town Like Alice is often the subject of sexists remarks, including the cross examination by hotel proprietor Mrs. Connor when Jean asked to book a room: 'Well, I don't know, I'm sure. You traveling alone? The inclusion of racism in the narrative is evident in the casual dialogue A Town Like Alice was part of the everyday experience at that time, particularly among the white population in Australia when referring to the Australian Aborigines. Shortly A Town Like Alice meeting Joe Harman, Jean listens to him describing his pre-war life as a "ringer" in Queensland: "Nine boongs we had. That's all. His pet name for Jean, the woman he loves, is "Mrs Boong"; hardly an expression of contempt from Joe's perspective, as articulated by the author Nevil Shute. Shute does not hesitate to place the Aboriginal characters in the book in the context of their second place status in Australian society. In Chapter 5, Jean asks why a white rancher would ever marry an Aborigine woman. In Chapter 8, Jean ponders: "what do I do if a boong A Town Like Alice comes into" her ice cream shop? The solution was to create a separate shop for the Aborigines. Race is a constant in the novel. When there is a discussion about workers it is always discussed by race, using the common slang of the time to describe the "ringers" and the Aborigines. With the end of the Pacific war against Imperial Japan in Augustand the repatriation of tens of thousands of prisoners of war taken by the Japanese armed forces, the world was learning first hand of the horrific details of the barbaric and inhuman treatment that these prisoners of war had endured in the hands of their captors. The world also learned of the hundreds of thousands of prisoners who had been worked to death as slaves of the Japanese, or executed by by them as punishment for any A Town Like Alice all infractions, however slight.
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