can someone discuss several of the moments where healing occurs in the english patient?
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The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a…
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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?
