The English Patient

Title: The English Patient
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 903 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

The English Patient

In the final sections of “The English Patient”, Michael Ondaatje uses the developed nature of various characters and reoccurring themes to stage the climax and resolution of the novel. Once again, Michael Ondaatje uses the reoccurring themes of nationality and identity, symbolism, and the concept of war to create tension between the plot and the characters. Kip, an Indian-Sikh sapper, clearly remembers enlisting in the British Army and training for the bomb squad under Lord …showed first 75 words of 903 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 903 total…imaginative as it was realistic. In the final section of the novel, he clearly sets the stage for a heightened and emotional climax that is later resolved. The readers are finally able to answers the enigmas that each character hid. The only concern for the readers in this book comes from the inconsistencies in tenses and confusing jumps between the minds of each character. Otherwise, this is superb book and definitely deserves a good reading!

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