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The English Patient Study Guide & Essays
The English Patient, published in 1992, is Ondaatje's most famous and critically acclaimed work. The novel won Ondaatje the prestigious Booker McConnell Prize in 1992, making him the only Sri Lankan writer ever to receive the honor. In 1996, Saul Zaentz produced The English Patient as a film…
The English Patient study guide contains a biography of Michael Ondaatje, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
- The English Patient Summary
- About The English Patient
- Character List
- Glossary of Terms
- Major Themes
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 1
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 2
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 3
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can someone discuss several of the moments where healing occurs in the english patient?
Hi, I've been set this essay question "What is the role and influence of the desert in the novel?" Any ideas?!
What does this mean? "... so his face is almost at his hip, ..."
"He ambles naked up the stairs to the second floor, where the guards are, bending down to laugh at some privacy, so his face is almost at his hip, nudging the guards about his evening’s invitation, alfresco, was that it? Or seduction a cappella~? ""his face is almost at his hip", does"his hip" mean the naked man's hip? But, how can his face at his own hip? I mean, the hip is under our back, while our faces are on the other side. How to explain this"his face is almost at his hip"?
alfresco : it must be a kind of metaphor. This word means at outside. Does that whole sentence mean," about his evening's alfresco invitation"?
Or a cappella seduction?
" Half a year earlier, from a window at the end of the long hall in Santa Chiara Hospital in Pisa, Hana had been able to see a white lion. At midnight she would look through the window and know it stood within the curfew blackout and that it would emerge like her into the dawn shift. "
Does it mean the lion stood within darkness(for the street lamps or something were blackout?)
And what does " emerge like her "mean , another metaphor?