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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly piece of music remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis. Lewiss hypothetical situation raises questions on how a person, the bird he is metaphorically referring to, must undergo a change to be capable to advance through life. The characters in Tim Wintons Cloudstreet must too experience this change in order to heal wounds and rekindle old relationships. The ways in which stability and change are explored by Winton in the novel that I will be discussing in my essay are, Cloudstreet represents both stability and change in the novel through the house being personified, tension and change are revealed through juxtaposition and resolution between Dolly and Rose, and the relationship between oriel and Fish explores tension through the innate nature of each character. Befo re I begin my deconstruction of Cloudstreet I would like to explicitly address the aspects of context, reception, and determine behind Tim Wintons Cloudstreet. Cloudstreet was written while Winton was travelling through Europe away from his home in Perth, and so the novel develops a sense of recall or nostalgia, as referred to by Michael McGirr, towards Wintons romanticized home. Cloudstreet was written economic hardship and recession as well as a time around ancient rights changing. The context in which the novel was written is important as it is reflected throughout the novel by a nostalgic tone and themes of reconciliation and hardship. Tim Wintons Cloudstreet was the receiver of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1992, and since has become a well studied Australian novel by schools and scholars such as Michael McGirr and Yvonne Miels. The values explored in Cloudstreet allow the novel to be well received by a wide audience.