Abstract

According to award-winning New Zealand writer, Maurice Gee, one of his main concerns is the bringing of parts together to create whole books, whole characters and groups of characters, and whole worlds. This is particularly the case in three of his children's novels: the fantasies The Halfmen of O, The Priests of Ferris, and Motherstone (widely known as the O trilogy) in which he echoes Jungian depth psychology. This essay examines Susan, the child protagonist and ‘chosen one’, who reflects Gee's own preoccupation with wholeness in that her quest throughout the trilogy is to restore wholeness and balance to the divided planet of O.

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