![]() ![]() Patrick Lewis is a lost soul and a searcher on a constant journey. It also reveals Patrick's thoughts and characteristic qualities. A gap of love,"" (Ondaatje, pg.157) suggests his feelings of separation from his close companions. Something hollow, so when alone, when not aligned with another- whether it was Ambrose or Clara or Alice- he could hear the rattle within that suggested a space between him and community. What did the word mean? Something that suggested there was a terrible horizon in him beyond which he couldn't leap. He was an abashed man, an inheritance from his father. He searched out things, he collected things. And he himself was noting but a prism that refracted their lives. "Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this cluster made up a drama without him. A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. Without these elements, he lacks love and cannot survive the world. In the novel, "In the Skin of a Lion,"" by Michael Ondaatje, the main character, Patrick Lewis, searches for identity and light. ![]()
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