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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on The immigrants and working class of In the Skin of a Lion. It needs to be at least 1250 words.Download file to see previous pages... Clara Dickens.
Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on The immigrants and working class of In the Skin of a Lion. It needs to be at least 1250 words.
Download file to see previous pages...Clara Dickens. Patrick gradually degenerated. He became disillusioned when the woman
he thought he loved, seduced and yet jilted him in favor of the wealthy millionaire Small.
He realized that Clara was only looking out for herself since she was also from the poor
working class and needed the dependency of her rich benefactor. There was no room for
love in the tough struggle for survival. He saw the hypocrisy of Clara and the
hopelessness of the poor working class. Clara ran away from Patrick, in order to seek out
her benefactor again. She left him her pet iguana. Although she has been heartless with
Patrick, she could not abandon her pet and left it in Patrick's care. Patrick was
heartbroken and lost his will to live life meaningfully.
A mutual friend of Clara and Patrick, Alice, who was a struggling working class stage
actor, visited him and got him to pull himself together. This was an instance where a
working class person has helped another from their own kind. Alice had liked Patrick but
decided to sacrifice her affections when she realized that he needed Clara to regain his
foothold on his life again. Of the two working class women who loved Patrick, Alice was
the better one. Slowly, Patrick did learn to love Alice. However, Patrick's love life has
been destined for tragedies. For the second time in his life, he lost the woman he loved
when Alice died. Patrick committed arson to vent his anger and frustration. Although
Patrick and Alice were lovers, Alice did not confide in him her origins. It was only after
his conversation with Temelcoff and Patrick realized that Alice was the nun who fell off
the uncompleted bridge. She was...
In the Skin of a Lion was written by Michael Ondaatje to present various viewpoints on the working class immigrants who labored to build Toronto, Ontario and other parts of Canada. The novel was written in the cubist fashion. In Book One’s The Searcher, after his father’s death, Patrick temporarily left the honest but dangerous profession of being a dynamiter and went to Ontario. He became an immigrant transplanted into the big city. He changed his profession to become a Searcher of missing persons, namely, the vanished millionaire called Ambrose Small. In Book One’s The Bridge, we read that Temecoff was a blue collar, working class construction worker on a bridge in Ontario who rose among his ranks by his sheer hard work and will power. He was an immigrant from Macedonia. He had a safe but lowly paid job at a bakery and managed to learn English to upgrade himself in order to take on the dangerous builder’s job for higher pay. Ondaatje has shown how one immigrant and working class man has managed to upgrade himself. Temelcoff succeeded where Hazen failed. Ondaatje showed us that the immigrant who worked hard can climb up the social ladder slowly whereas the laborer (like Hazen) who stayed in the rural region simply could not pull himself out of the cycle of poverty. On the other hand, Hazen led a fairly uneventful life until his death whereas Patrick, who immigrated into the city, led a life full of adventures, misadventures and romance.
