In the Skin of a Lion

A motif in English literature is a recurrent image, idea, or theme. Please provide an example.

A motif in English literature is a recurrent image, idea, or theme. Please provide an example.

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Blindness/ sight is a theme that recurs throughout the novel, first with Patrick observing the loggers in the night where they are barely visible, then Patrick’s game of blindfolding and running around the room, where he accidentally kicks Clara. The iguana Clara leaves for Patrick is blind, and this is the thing that brings Patrick close to the Macedonian community. Additionally, Patrick has to pretend he doesn’t know that Clara goes to Ambrose and turn a blind eye to the knowledge that he is alive even though Small's family is searching for the moguls. The tunnel workers work in the blinding dark, workers on the bridge work in the fog and dark. Alice says to Patrick, “You could blindfold me now, Patrick, and I would be able to take you there. . .” As well, Patrick ends up in the Garden of the Blind after he bombs the hotel; it is there that he reconnects with life.

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