8. It can be said that landscape plays an enormous role in these characters’ lives, but can it be said that landscape actually changes who these people are? If so, what does it turn them into?

[Jen]

8. It can be said that landscape plays an enormous role in these characters’ lives, but can it be said that landscape actually changes who these people are? If so, what does it turn them into?

[Diane]

I would agree that the landscape plays a huge roll in this story. The word colour is used to describe a multitude of things and not just the gold. I think the landscape and location turned Harriet into who she was truly meant to be.

[Kristel]

There is a lot of landscape in this country. There is the flat land with the wind blowing across, there is the mountains that are almost impossible to cross, the peat bogs, the ugly excavations along the river that really display the ugliness of man.

Harriet survived the weather and the land. She became a strong woman but I think she was always strong. She knew what she wanted and she was willing to go after it.