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Michael Ondaatje, 2003.
The representation of love in novelist Michael Ondaatje?s "In the Skin of a Lion" and "The English Patient".
1,969 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses how love is portrayed in Canadian author, Michael Ondaatje?s "In the Skin of a Lion" by using another of his works, "The English Patient", to compare and contrast it with. By critically analyzing these two works, the paper finds that, although they appear quite different initially, the novels share many of the same processes, literary techniques, themes and syntax.
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"The English Patient?s taboo love comes in two forms. First, there is the adulterous relationship between the married Katherine and Almasy. Second, there is the unusual relationship between the white American nurse and the British bomb expert of Indian origin. In both cases, as well as in the relationships in In the Skin of a Lion, the taboos or socially unusual situations are overcome by passionate love and are rendered ? at least by the lovers themselves ? meaningless or, at best, side-issues."
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The Use of Nature in Michael Ondaatje's Novel, "Anil's Ghost", 2002.
This paper explores the use of nature in Michael Ondaatje's novel, "Anil's Ghost".
1,305 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper argues how the main characters, in Michael Ondaatje's novel, "Anil's Ghost", revolve around nature's authority on the human experience. It describes in depth, the microcosm of the story as adorned with verbal illustrations of Sri Lanka's natural endowments and qualities.
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"To achieve a comfortable understanding of any world or circumstance should require a confident understanding of the environment that frames it. This is something that an author, when crafting a universe for readers that must be assumed ignorant, needs always to retain in cognizance. Certainly this was an underlying element to the process by which Michael Ondaatje rendered Anil's Ghost, a novel that decisively revolves its prime players around the criticality of nature to the human experience. This is so much the case in this piece, in fact, that nature itself takes on a dynamic character role, subject like many of the actual characters to dramatic shifts in temperament, exertion of authority and necessary seasonal routine. As such, Ondaatje is insistent upon integrating nature's participation into actions, anecdotes and memories of great significance in imparting his story. Throughout Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje employs devices embedded in the concepts of a narrative shaped world, a reader shaped narrativity and a network of knowledge systems in order to investigate the numerous functions of nature therein, and consequently illuminating the social circumstances that his character's experience. "
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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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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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Michael Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost", 2004.
Critical review of Ondaatje's book about the war between the Tamils and the government of Sri Lanka.
1,407 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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The author of this paper briefly summarizes Michael Ondaatje's book, "Anil's Ghost", and then goes on to describe the weakness of Ondaatje's book. The author contends that the book lacks a central theme, has weak character development, and that much of the text is superfluous.
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""Anil's Ghost," can be read as a war story or it can also be seen as a tale of young woman coming back to her native land to find that she can no longer relate to the land or its culture. However from both perspectives, the book lacks depth and purpose, which is unfortunate since the author was not writing about some far off land but about his own country and their people. The problem with the book lies in its ambiguously developed characters and a general lack of central theme."
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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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Shakespeare and Ondaatje, 2005.
A discussion of the similarities between Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" and Michael Ondaatje's 1992 novel "The English Patient."
1,225 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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Although the plot and characters differ considerably as do the time periods in which the stories are set, "Romeo and Juliet" and "The English Patient" share themes, imagery and motifs in common. This paper explains that both stories take place amid violence and war; both are also set in Italy. It also looks at how both focus on tales of passionate, forbidden and unrequited love that is made all the more powerful against the violent backdrop.
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"War also causes the characters in both Romeo and Juliet and The English Patient to concoct convoluted plans that cause tragedy and death. For example, Juliet takes a potion that makes her appear dead and lies in a family crypt awaiting Romeo's arrival. Her plan backfires due to mixed messages; because she took the potion a day early and because Romeo never became aware of the plan the two lovers die side by side. Similarly, the English Patient is forced to leave Katherine in a cave with the intent of returning to rescue her. His plan backfires as well, causing her death and his being burned. Both stories thus end in a bittersweet peace. The tragedy befalling all the sets of lovers is foretold and foreshadowed by the warlike imagery and violent backdrop; war and violence pervades both Romeo and Juliet and The English Patient. No plan, however well-concocted, can save or reunite the lovers. Death is the inevitable outcome of war, tragedy the inevitable outcome of romance. In the end of both Romeo and Juliet and The English Patient, a sense of peace and relief sets in over the characters; however, this peace is bittersweet, borne of the acceptance of death, tragedy, and unfulfilled romantic love."
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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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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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"In the Skin of a Lion", 2005.
This paper analyzes Michael Ondaatje "In the Skin of a Lion" about the experiences of non-English speaking immigrants in Toronto.
3,115 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper explains that Michael Ondaatje "In the Skin of a Lion" reveals another world that co-exists within Toronto's literal history and its current perceived reality as the imaginary community traverse boundaries to another world where a new language exists. The author points out that this book makes use of the metaphor of light moving from darkness into light as the oral history is told and as a linkage between self and the worlds that emerge from the outside of the window. The paper concludes that, although the protagonist Patrick experiences difficulty in the mirror of the immigrant neighbors, he ends up being part of the picture instead of facing it as an individual, demonstrating that the movement between self and other, or old world and new world showing that the boundaries between worlds are liquid-like. Several quotations.
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"The movement from silence into language happens when Patrick starts to understand the foreign language and its world surrounding him; silence represents a world and language represents the other world. Although he is stuck in absence of known words and pictures without explanation in the beginning, after the first "breakthrough" he is able to fathom the foreignness. Patrick's first word is the Macedonian word for iguana. As soon as he learns the word, a group of Macedonians "then circled him trying to desperately to leap over the code of language between them.""
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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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The Real Home, 2008.
This paper analyzes the autobiography "Running in the Family" by Michael Ondaatje.
2,147 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper discusses the theme and construction of home in "Running in the Family", an autobiography by Michael Ondaatje. The paper explains how, although Ondaatje's home is both in Canada and Sri Lanka, his autobiography revolves primarily around his life in Sri Lanka. The paper highlights Ondaatje's stronger connection to his Sri Lankan upbringing and home, although it is in sharp contrast to his Canadian lifestyle today.
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Introduction
Running in the Family and "Home"
Conclusion
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"To Ondaatje, his home, Sri Lanka, seems a foreign thing, at least at the outset of the book. Living in Canada and thinking about a return to his home country, Ondaatje observes that the word "Asia" has none of the "clipped sound(s)" (22) of words such as Europe, America and Canada. As a Canadian citizen, Ondaatje must necessarily look at his home country through the tinted veil of a Westerner's glance at a strange, Eastern country. However, whilst Canada has become Ondaatje's adoptive home, his origins are still in Sri Lanka, Asia. From the very beginning, Ondaatje makes his construction of his birth home known. He expresses the irony he feels towards his home country by his feelings towards how the word "sounds" - for example, "the name (Asia) was a gasp from a dying mouth. An ancient word that had to be whispered, would never be used as a battle cry" (22). In other words, to Ondaatje, Asia has none of the modern grandeur of Western countries and Europe; it is an old place, irrelevant in today's time. Even the sound of the word is weird - "the vowels took over, slept on the map with the S" (22)."
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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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Alienation in Novels, 2006.
A comparison between Alice Munro's 'Who DO YOU THINK You ARE', Michael Ondaatje's 'In the Skin of a Lion', and Mordecai Richler's 'Son of a Smaller Hero'.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay examines the theme of alienation in three novels: Alice Munro's 'Who DO YOU THINK You ARE', Michael Ondaatje's 'In the Skin of a Lion', and Mordecai Richler's 'Son of a Smaller Hero'. All three are also coming of age stories as the main characters are all deeply affected by their childhood. The paper further discusses how the characters in the books are alienated from the mainstream society for different reasons because of their past, their backgrounds, and places in society.
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