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CLOUDSTREET BY TIM WINTON The novel Cloudstreet by Tim Winton thoroughly explores the theme of reconciliation. Reconciliation is the acceptance, healing, understanding and moving on that takes place between characters, between self and between characters and their environment. Winton displays a nostalgia attitude associated with homecoming that is very significant to the theme. The characters are longing for a home or in other words a place that brings peace and comfort. The characters and setting …

…Lamb. Perfectly. Always. Everyplace. Me.” Tim Winton uses the characters and setting very well in illustrating the importance of achieving reconciliation and being able to move on. The nostalgia attitude of all the characters in longing for a home and a place of peace only supports the fact that each character needs to experience reconciliation. So they can move on and finally find this place of understanding and completeness that they have been longing for