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A 10 page paper which examines man’s
need to understand their environment as presented in Michael Ondaatje’s novel “In the
Skin of a Lion.” The work is examined in light of a comment by Northrop Frye. No
additional sources cited.
Page Count:
10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAondaa.rtf
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asking the question, "Who Am I?" Northrop Frye once wrote that "Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity...as by a series of
paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question Who am I? than by some such riddle as Where is here?." This provides us with an
interesting tool that can be used for defining oneself. In Michael Ondaatjes novel "In the Skin of a Lion" we presented with many different environmental issues concerning early Canadian history.
These are issues which allow the primary character, Patrick, to discover himself. This environment includes people as well as places, leaving Patrick to examine where he is in terms of
his general surrounding, not just his physical environment. Bearing that in mind the following paper examines how Fryes statement fits very well with Ondaatjes novel. In the Skin
of a Lion In the epigraph of his novel Ondaatje quotes John Berger, stating "never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one." In
this we are essentially introduced to an image that instills an understanding of how one individual, one story, does not tell us who we are, where we come from, or
where we are. In this we can see that Ondaatje is perhaps arguing that only through examining all the stories can we see where we are, and thus begin to
see ourselves in one way or another. This particular approach is seen throughout his novel as we see many stories, many individuals. And, only through these numerous
stories and numerous environmental conditions does Patrick begin to make some sense out of things. We note this continuation of the theme in the following lines: "He saw himself gazing
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