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The past in The English Patient and In the skin of a Lion.
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ISP Essay: The Past in The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion Laura Schmidt ENG 4A1-02 Mr. Anderson In the two novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient both written by Michael Ondaatje, he demonstrates that it is damaging to not only their own life but to the lives of others, to live only in the past or to completely ignore it. It is impossible to continue a normal daily life while living in the past or ignoring the past; events from the past can affect others and it is unfair to keep it from them; and the past will eventually catch up to them. In the two novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient both written by Michael Ondaatje, he demonstrates that Patrick, Alice, Ambrose and the Englishman not only ruin their own lives but the lives of their friends and family...
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