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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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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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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, 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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"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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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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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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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 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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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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"In the Skin of a Lion", 2008.
This paper examines Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" that offers impressions of Toronto in the early 20th century.
2,167 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 67.95
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The paper examines Michael Ondaatje's hero, Patrick Lewis, in "In the Skin of a Lion". The paper relates that the novel is made up of several stories whose characters overlap, creating a fascinating account of the ordinary Toronto life. The paper looks at how Ondaatje describes Toronto in the 1920s and early 1930s through the eyes of working class people who worked very hard, yet were unable to afford basics that are taken for granted today.
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"When he is older, Patrick Lewis reflects on his life and notes that is no longer "a single story but part of a mural... a fitting together of accomplices." (1987:145) Alice Gull explained to him at one point, that it was time for Patrick to tell his own story, even though she nor her friend, Clara Dickens, the other important female character, did not reveal anything about their own pasts, leaving Patrick Lewis and the reader to guess, for the most part. (1987:244) The novel's title borrows a metaphor that has two meanings, in the human being having a source of power, or using the skin of a lion as a disguise, meaning all people can describe themselves in detail and give away very little, if at all. There is power in being anonymous, in a way, and there is also obvious stature if one does not explain about oneself, leaving others to wonder or guess. It is found in the epic story of Gilgamesh as Enkidu, the innocent man is dying and rages against the end. His friend, Gilgamesh, who is half god, will grieve by taking on the skin of a lion, and walking from place to place. The reader learns of Patrick Lewis, the son of a paid farm hand in Depot Creek, Ontario, who learns the trade of setting dynamite from his father. He reaches Toronto about 1923, aged 21, and supports himself as a construction labourer among many immigrants from Europe or elsewhere in Europe."
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"Last Ink", 2008.
An analysis of Michael Ondaatje's poem "Last Ink".
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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The paper explains how Michael Ondaatje's poem "Last Ink" presents a complex reflection upon love and how the writer perceives and represents thought and experience. The paper demonstrates how Ondaatje achieves these objectives through the use of imagery and syntactical constructions. The paper illustrates how "Last Ink" is a powerful and resonant poetic work.
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"One of the particularly interesting features of "Last Ink" is the centrality of the writing experience in the poem. The act of writing is not for Ondaatje restricted to pen and paper. Rather, throughout his work, he has reflected on writing as an act of creation that is central to the human experience (Vigurs 72). For Ondaatje, for example, lovers are writers and the lover's body becomes a medium upon which a text is inscribed. Love and sensuality have been recognized as predominating in the themes and imagery of Ondaatje's poetry (Sen 338)."
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"To a Sad Daughter", 2005.
An analysis of this poem by Ondaatje.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The paper shows that Ondaatje's techniques used in the poem, "To a Sad Daughter" are designed to reveal two very different points of view. The two perspectives are supported by the images of masks and forsythia which is a hedge. A number of the metaphors and similes fit while others have little meaning. However they result in a poignant and nostalgic tone. The paper shows that personification and especially assonance and alliteration are used to express the father emotions. The emotion of fear is just as important in this poem as that of love.
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""To a Sad Daughter" is a difficult poem since Ondaatje has used a number of images that contain multiple meanings. The theme of this poem is a father's love for his daughter and his desire to protect her from reality. He is the one who is obviously fearful of that reality. The poem contains many contradictions, with metaphors that do not seem appropriate, and it ends with what seems to be a major contradiction. Ondaatje's techniques are designed to reveal two very different points of view."
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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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