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"The English Patient", 2007.
A review of the narrative structure of Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient".
749 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses how the narrative structure of Ondaatje's famous novel "The English Patient" is extremely important for the message that the text means to transmit. It looks at how Ondaatje's book is a complex investigation of a few main themes: history, nationhood and identity. Although it is set during World War II, the novel seems to silence the historical events and to replace them by the personal narratives of the four protagonists: the English patient, Katharine, Hana and Kip. It attempts to show how Ondaatje, thus, rewrites history by abolishing the chronological, strict form and replacing it with a collage made of the scraps coming from the separate experiences of the four main characters.
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"Thus, the Libyan Desert is the most important symbol in the novel. It is in the first place the spot where the love story between Almasy, a scientist involved in the expedition of the Geographical Society that aims at mapping the desert, and Katharine Clifton, the wife of the war spy Geoffrey Clifton. The jealous Geoffrey attempts to take revenge on Almasy for the affair he had with his wife, and tries to crush his plane down on him. The English patient escapes, but Geoffrey dies and Katharine who was traveling with him is badly wounded. Almasy is forced to leave Katharine in a cave in the desert and seek help, but he is caught and restrained because his name indicated him as a possible British spy and thus only returns after two years for Katharine's body. "
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"The English Patient", 2002.
This paper analyzes Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper focuses on the "reflecting character" role of Almry in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient".
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Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient", 2006.
An analysis of the focus of Michael Ondaatje's novel, "The English Patient".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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Michael Ondaatje's novel, "The English Patient", is a complex novel set amidst both the turmoil of the Second World War and, in a broader sense, amid the timeless works of classic Renaissance art and culture in Italy. However, as this essay argues, while the apparent focus of the novel is upon the Europe - its people, culture and conflicts - Ondaatje is also situating the novel in the broader context of European imperialism and racism.
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"The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, 2002.
An analysis of elemental existence in the book "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje.
3,204 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper describes Ondaatje's symbolic use of air, fire, water and earth, especially as represented in the motif of the desert, to display the characteristics of life and love it time of war. It portrays the elements as the essence of life, and illustrates how existence is precarious and elemental in the world of "The English Patient."
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"Love and war are central themes in the novel The English Patient by Canadian Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje?s book won the Booker Prize, and was the basis for the film which won nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. Both love and war reduce humans to states of life that might be called elemental. Elements are the basic components of life. What is essential to life becomes paramount. The four elements, water, earth, air, and fire are symbolically employed throughout The English Patient. As the elements are necessary to the support of life, they can also bring death and suffering, just as the passionate love described in this book is both beautiful and painful. The way that the elements in combination with the motif of the desert are used in The English Patient shows the intimate interconnection between sustenance and the pain and suffering of life as humans endure the experiences of love and war."
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Film: "The English Patient", 2005.
This paper analyzes the psychological relationship between Hana and Kip in "The English Patient".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper describes the relationship between Hana and Kip, in "The English Patient", in terms of a treacherous journey. The author points out that the physical landscape surrounding Hana and Kip is filled with danger from mines. The paper relates that the reader becomes suspicious since Hana navigates quite well yet; in Kip's view, she is forever in danger.
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"A "treacherous and complex journey": The significance of the relationship of Kip and Hana in "The English Patient" The relationship between Kip and Hana in "The English Patient", is not merely complex but also paradoxical. The core of the problem in their relationship is expressed by Caravaggio who implies that Hana has an ethical duty to prevent Kip from risking his life. Hana realizes Kip is treating her as a child, yet she is compassionate and aware of "the comfort she has given others" (126). Kip exhibits the traits of certainty, clarity and focus to which Hana is attracted."
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Love in "The English Patient", 2002.
Discusses the role of love in the novel, "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper examines the role of romantic relationships and love in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient". Love is cast as a motivational force within this work and drives the characters to evolve in terms of their personalities. Both the film and the novel are addressed in this paper.
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"The English Patient", 2002.
A look at the feminine, geographic, and national identities depicted in "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje .
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This undergraduate level paper looks at the three forms of identity depicted in the novel, "The English Patient", by Ondaatje. It centers on the feminine, the geographic, and the national identities of the characters in the story.
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"The English Patient", 2002.
This paper introduces and discusses the book ?The English Patient,? by Michael Ondaatje, focusing on national identity and the way in which it is addressed in this book.
1,305 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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The following paper examines how people tend to identify others and themselves through their nationality when reading a novel. The writer contends that when we discover a certain character is a certain race, we automatically envision them a certain way, with certain features, and certain beliefs, that may or may not agree with our own. This paper discusses how the four characters in ?The English Patient? have to get over what happened to them during the war, and figure out how to get on with their lives. The way in which their distinct and unique national identities come into play as the novel progresses is discussed.
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?The English Patient? takes place at the end of World War II, in a deserted villa in Italy that is being used as a field hospital during the war. Now, the war is winding down, and there are only four people left in the hospital. Hana is the Canadian nurse who is still there to take care of the injured patient. The patient, who is burned beyond recognition, a thumbless thief named Caravaggio, who was tortured and maimed by wartime inquisitors, and a young Sikh, named Kip, who spent the war taking apart and disarming German bombs. The ?English patient? can talk, but he cannot remember who he is. He can remember his past, but not his name.?
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Elemental Existence in "The English Patient", 2002.
This paper looks at how the elements add to the tension and theme of human suffering in Michael Ondaatje?s novel "The English Patient".
3,153 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper discusses the central motif of the desert and the imagery of fire, air, water and earth in Michael Ondaatje?s novel "The English Patient". The writer uses quotes from the novel to illustrate the significance of the elements in revealing the uncertain lives of Ondaatje?s characters who are struggling to survive passion and war in North Africa during World War II.
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"Water and fire are frequently juxtaposed. Katherine and Alm?sy experience the fire of passion. Each interlude fuels the desire for more as possession and jealousy, both fiery qualities enter the scene. They are possessed as if by the flames of hell. Katherine has married her best friend from childhood to avoid passion and pain. She tells Alm?sy (while in the bath with him) that what she likes most is to swim alone, and to take baths alone. Thus ironically, her attempt at emotional aridity is overcome by her passion for Alm?sy. The first time Hana sees Alm?sy, he is to her: ?A man with no face. An ebony pool? (48). She ?swims? under her wool blankets as he moves ?in his cloth placenta? (49). Hana uses a candle to read to Alm?sy at night. ?The candle flickers over the page . . .He listens to her, swallowing her words like water? (5). Water, so essential to desert survival becomes a symbolic oasis, symbolizing emotion and nurturance, and representing hope of life. Burned, transported by Bedouins, Alm?sy, ?could smell the oasis before he saw it. The liquid in the air. . .The banging of tin cans whose deep pitch revealed they were full of water? (6)."
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Motif of the Desert in "The English Patient", 2000.
An examination of the motif of the desert in "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaajte, as a parallel to life itself, not just for the main character, but for humanity.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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?After spending ten years in the desert, the English patient is a shadow of his former self. Everything the English patient experiences in the desert is very short lived, and this is compared to the difficulty in finding an ample amount of water. The English patient speaks of water as the " . . . ghost between your hands and your mouth" and notes that "In the desert you celebrate nothing but water" (19; ch. 1 | 23; ch. 1). This strengthens the idea that nothing in the desert is permanent, and everything is valuable. In this sense, the desert represents not only the English patient's life, but life in general.?
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"The Blue Flower" and "The English Patient", 2002.
The central symbol of one novel is amplified and underlined by another in a comparison of works by Penelope Fitzgerald and Michael Ondaatje.
3,395 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This essay first looks closely at the symbol of the blue flower which is central to the novel of the same name written by Penelope Fitzgerald. Close scrutiny is made of the transformational love relationship between Fritz and Sophie. Next comes a study of the lovers in "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje followed by a comparison of the two relationships. This comparison reveals how the two sets of lovers in the two novels each experience the true opening of self to the most intense inner experiences possible.
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"The meaning of the central symbol around which The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald revolves expands even further when studied in relationship to The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The historical subjects about which Michael Ondaatje and Penelope Fitzgerald write are quite distant from each other in time and place. Fritz?s attachment to Sophie and Hana?s relationship with Kip are vastly different, and yet there is are elements of similarity. For each of these couples, when their individual lives come in contact with each other, something, happens-- something big, something life changing, something that, looking back at the end of a lifetime, might be described as having made all the difference. This something might also be called human growth."
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Hana's Isolation in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient", 2000.
An analysis of Hana's isolation, her relationships and how they fail to save her, in a war that devours everyone she loves.
2,036 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, $ 64.95
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"As a nurse, Hana treats an English patient who suffers from extensive burns on his body. Strangely, she directs all her spirit into nursing him. She performs various physical acts from bathing him to feeding him a plum from her mouth: ?She pours calamine in stripes across his chest where he is less burned, where she can touch him....She unskins the plum with her teeth, withdraws the stone and passes the flesh of the fruit into his mouth? (4). Ondaatje?s language is so intrinsically detailed that the reader feels the intimacy grow between Hana and the patient."
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English Teaching Methodolodgy - ESL (English Second Language), 2002.
This paper explores some of the fundemental principles of teaching English as a second language.
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper serves as a guide for teaching students English as a second language. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the first three weeks of educating a group that has never before learned English. The paper explains the characteristics of the material intended to be taught. It also clarifies what one should do if the students made mistakes and deals with ways of encouraging students to talk. The second part of the paper explores the required environment for second language acquisition and the thirds part discusses factors that are beneficial for second language learning efforts.
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"First impressions are important in establishing a good relationship between teachers and students. Foreign students often come to the classroom with many fears. (Cary, 2000) Therefore, it is very important that the teacher establish a friendly, enthusiastic atmosphere free of any negative vibes. (Samway, 1999) Even though the students are afraid, this can be eased by a friendly smile and pleasant small talk. This is especially important before giving any sort of assessment test, which should be given during the first class of the term as part of class orientation."
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Michael Ondaatje's Dream-World, 2002.
Examines the dream-like settings in author Michael Ondaatje?s "In the Skin of a Lion" and "The English Patient".
3,254 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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This paper examines how the dream-like settings in Michael Ondaatje?s novels, ("In the Skin of a Lion" and "The English Patient"), represent the structure, organization and style of the novel. It looks at the message Ondaatje is trying to get across by using this style of writing. The paper also discusses the novels in the context of post-modern literature.
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"This selection has no order in its construction. It continuously repeats the verb ?leapt?, which has no hidden meaning. With the images of color, and then pulling and stomping, it is difficult to discern what Ondaatje wants the reader to think about dyer?s work. This is also seen in The English Patient, when it says ?The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.? Here, Hana has no order in her life until she is asleep. This image in itself is disorderly, because dreams themselves are so unorganized. It does not seem possible for her to find order through them. Yet that is precisely what dreams do; they present chaos and random images in a way that almost makes sense; and that is what Ondaatje does. He puts images together for the reader to somehow make sense of it for themselves."
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Isolation in Literature, 2002.
Examines the theme of isolation in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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Isolation in literature is necessary for the development of the hero, of the protagonist and of societies depicted. Isolation gives the characters the excuse they need to focus on themselves in a very intense manner. This paper examines the use of literary isolation in terms of character identity and political transformation in "Animal Farm", by George Orwell, and "The English Patient", by Michael Ondaatje.
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