In Garry Disher's 'The Divine Wind,' it sends across a strong and important message that in a time of horrific war, everyone loses-including the so-called 'winners'. This message is conveyed throughout the text as Hart's mother loses her life in the surrounding circumstances of war. Hart also loses his life-long love, Mitsy, not by death but by the alienation of the Japanese. Even though Hart is labelled as a 'winner' because he belonged to …showed first 75 words of 584 total…

…showed last 75 words of 584 total…was hate and indifference. Now friendship has replaced all of that, but a friendship that can't offer or ask too much." After this war, Australians were announced as 'winners' but in the eyes of Hart and many more Australians, they had seen that they lost more than they gained. The so-called 'winning' of this war resulted in Hart losing his mother and a friendship with the love of his life, Mitsy, which he held dearly.