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        <title><![CDATA[What would you say, characterizes the construction of the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would you say, characterizes the construction of the story?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly, Caravaggio possesses a great deal of anger about his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Certainly, Caravaggio possesses a great deal of anger about his condition.  His capture, the revealing of his identity, and the overall state of his life as a result of the war fills his heart and psyche with anger and resentment.  Yet, while his particular predicament is painful, hearing the condition of the patient is one that is comparatively worse than Caravaggio's.  The futility of war, as well as the futility of human freedom in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:05:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Caravaggio have any angry feelings for the English Patient, because...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Does Caravaggio have any angry feelings for the English Patient, because he believes he is partly responsible for his capture?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:44:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrative structure of the novel is like a collage, mostly made up...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrative structure of the novel is like a collage, mostly made up of the recollections of numerous, non-sequential memories of each of the four main characters. The recollections are inserted in between the main action of the story, including Hana's and Kip's love story and the revealing of the patient's true identity.

By not telling the story in a chronological structure, the author shows each character's private memories they would...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:08:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Katharine is on her honeymoon when she meets and starts her affair with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Katharine is on her honeymoon when she meets and starts her affair with Almasy. She loves the desert, perhaps feeling it is an exotic setting where she can have an illicit love affair, defying what is proper and improper. She is the one who initiates the affair which is often violent. She breaks it off because she feels guilty and can't take the pressure of trying to keep it hidden from her husband. Her husband, Geoffrey, is an Englishman of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:07:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can I compare and contrast two of the characters from the novel,The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How can I compare and contrast two of the characters from the novel,The English Patient?  They are Hana, the Canadian nurse, and Katharine Clifton.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 May 2007 21:41:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the narrative structure and use of point of view in Michael...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the narrative structure and use of point of view in Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:27:56 PST</pubDate>
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