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East And West English Patient
1,186 wordsThe novel, The English Patient, by Michael Ondaajte constructs meaning through the use of tropes, images and symbolism, instead of merely portraying a linear set of events. There are many intersexual references, tropes of covering, which serve to create and strengthen meaning, as well as bold imagery, which erects another level of significance. Symbolism plays a vital role in the formation of meaning, with fire, religion, the English Patients body and the desert being essential to the founding c...
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English Patient Taking Place
1,226 words... and fire, water is vital, much like the English Patients desire for Katharine; she is a vital aspect of his life. However, right from the beginning their relationship was destined to end, it could not last. Katharine had only a temporary passion for the desert, she was a separate element, essential to survival, yet she was unable to endure the dryness, she was a ghost between your hands and your mouth. The desert is also a metaphor for identity. It is constantly changing; it is indefinable a...
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World War 2 Shell Shock
877 wordsIn Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient, the author demonstrates how dreadful the time of the war was. He proves that the victims were all subject to extreme suffering, torture and even abuse by weapons of the time period of World War 2. Suffering is seen in many parts of the novel and truly represents what life during World War 2 was really like. Suffering is best known to man as to undergo, experience, or be subjected to pain, loss, grief, defeat, etc. In the novel suffering was compar...
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Incurable Wounds Of War The English Patient
1,436 wordsIncurable Wounds of war: The English Patient The English Patient won Michael Ondaatje, a Canadian novelist and poet, the 1993 Booker Prize. It is a very rich novel, very stylistically written. May be having read the very first pages somebody will say that this story is boring, others might not understand how one could make a film out of it or even win such a prestigious prize as Booker Prize. But this story draws our attention to the very important issue: war and wounds it can cause. He does not...
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World War Ii Back And Forth
5,910 wordsThe English Patient She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather. There is another gust of wind, a buckle of noise in the air, and the tall cypresses sway. She turns and moves uphill toward the house, climbing over a low wall, feeling the first drops of rain on her bare arms. She crosses the loggia and quickly enters the house. In the kitchen she doesnt pause but goes through it and climbs the stairs which are in darkne...
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Falls In Love English Patient
2,153 wordsThe English Patient, directed by Anthony Minghella, is a romantic, melodramatic film which defines the art of cinematography. The internal and external rhythms, lighting, camera angles, lenses, music, dialogue, and editing are displayed in a way which conveys the meanings and themes to the viewer in such a clear and efficient manner. Due to this fine exhibition, it is of the belief that film schools should use this piece of artwork as a guide to students who wish to learn what cinematography act...
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Snow Falling On Cedars Steven Spielberg
1,472 wordsIn the beginning was the word If Scott Rudin wasnt a millionaire Hollywood producer, it might be possible to feel a little sorry for him right now. Because Rudin has engineered a couple of years of headaches and resentment for himself which, recent history suggests, will end up in an unsatisfactory outcome. First, he found a director (Stephen Dairy) and a writer (David Hare) to adapt Jonathan Franzens The Corrections, the film rights to which he optioned personally before the book was published....
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Innocent Lives War Torn
857 wordsFrom the war-torn wastelands of Europe to the exotic Cairo, The English Patient, is a readers delight. This novel set in the twilight stages of the Second World War was created by Michael Ondaatje. Amongst Caravaggio, Hanna, Almasy and other minor characters, Kip is the only coloured character in the cast. Almasy, is the sick patient while Hana nurses him. Caravaggio is a thief who used to work for the Allies while Kip forages through the war torn regions of Europe, incapacitating unexploded bom...
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