Who Has Seen the Wind is a story of a boy and his clamber to understand and interpret the world around him. W.O. Mitchell starts by consideration the stage; Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirements of apparently land and sky (...) (1) and follows by introducing his semi-biographical protagonist, Brian OConnal. Brian, a boy of four, lives with his parents, nanna and brother in a small town on the Saskatchewan prairie lands. A number of colourful characters pass through Brians life, helping him to grow and develop through a collection of situations trickily depicted by Mitchell. Brian learns about both stock and remnant in a very personal and intense way. The ever-present wind makes its entrance at the most suitable times symbolizing the realities, pleasures and hardships of life, and to some, God. The story is told with compassion, insight and sensitivity and Mitchells delicate and universal character development is rivalled only by his portrayal of the eccentrically scenic prairie setting.
One of the first things Brian comes to recognize about life is birth. Although the book begins at age four it is reasonable to consider that the birth of his brother, Bobbie, had a significant impact upon Brian.
The next time Brian learns about birth is through his father, when he asks about a nest of pigeon egg that he and Forbsie observed for some time. His father briefly explains how the eggs and the pigeons inside came to be, and Brian begins to understand that birth is the beginning of life. Brian discovers the birth and duplicate of another animal, rabbits, when Forbsies herd gets out of control. When Brian visits Uncle Seans farm, he takes a proneness to a runt pig that Ab, Seans hired hand, was meant to kill. Later on...
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