Brian's search for truth, for meaning in death and therefore in life, is central to his education. The basic structure is linear. It moves through four phases of Brian's development: the pre-school period, the early school years at six and seven, the death of his father at ten, and the initiation into adulthood at twelve where he takes on his father's role and chooses a career. These events are simple and presented through the eyes …showed first 75 words of 652 total…

…showed last 75 words of 652 total…school. But there is no retribution for the persecution of The China Kids and the suicide of their father. The final pages, the turning of the cycle from day to night, Summer to Winter and life to death, poses the ultimate question that man must face in this alien world. And there can be no answer. Like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the best "popular" literature, Who Has Seen the Wind is both accessible and universal.