Boekverslag: The English Patient
Publisher: Picader
Pages: 307
Genre: war novel, love story
Summary
Hana is twenty years old and she has lost her father. She nursed the patients of the war. She thinks that everybody who she loves dies.
There is a completly burried man who stand up alive out of a burning machine. His face is unregonaisble and he doesn?t know who he is, he only knows that he is an English man, so everybody calls him the English patient.
Hana nurses him in an old ruin, Villa san Girolmo. She reads him from every book, also from his book Herodotus with his notes and cuttings in it. Hana washed him months before he talked to her.
David Caravavaggio comes also to live with them. He was a good friend of Hana?s father and was he was a thief in the war.
His hands are bandaged because the thumbs are cut away.
One day Hana is crying because she loves the English patient. Caravaggio says that she adores him and that he is a ghost. Then Hana wants him to go away.
When Hana plays the old piano in the lybery, two sappers come and look for a mine. One of them, Kirpal Singh, sets up a tent in the garden of the ruin. His short name is Kip and is 26 years old. The other sapper Hardy stays elsewhere. Kip risks his life for saving other people.
Kip often dismantles mines and bombs. Hana and he love eachother and they have a relationship.
This is the story of the English patient:
The English patient is a mapmaker in the desert. He hates nations. He travalls with Madox, Bernann, Casparius and others of the mapmakers.
One day in 1936 he meet Geoffroy Clinton. This man got married the day after this meeting and comes two weeks later with his wife Katherine to Cairo, where the mapmakers are. Clifton is their pilot, messenger and reconnaissance. On that moment the English patient is working on his own book:Recentes Explorations dans le desert Lybique.
As he hears Katherine reciting a poetry he falls in love with a voice and he begins to love poetry. He is fifteen years older.
Katherine and he are studying eachother. She wants to know from him that if she gave her life to him, would he drop it then? He doesn?t answer.
Katherine dreams of him.
After they maked love, he wants to know what she hates the most. She anwers ?a lie? and he answers that he hate ownership.
They see eachother a lot, till she says that they can?t anymore, because she?s afraid that Clifton will go mad. She still loves her husband very much and gave remarks of their marriage which he ignores.
He asks himself what their relationship had been; a betroyed of those around them or the desire of another life.
Three years later they are together again. In that three years Madox had killed himself.
Katherines husband has gone mad and kills himself and his wife by crashing his plane. The English patient was with the crash; he saw them crashing.
But Katherine isn?t dead. The English patient pulls the body free and carries her to the Cave of the Swimmers. He is going for help and walks seventy miles. He walks as fast as a camel. After three days he comes in El Taj, but the English don?t believe him. They take him away with a jeep.
He comes back with Katherine and it?s almost too late. There is a breath of dead in her. When Katherine is dead he takes her into the desert where she became part of.
Caravaggio is listening to him, while he gaves him more and more morphine. He thinks that the English patient is the spy Alm?sy. The English patient is Alm?sy, but he isn?t a spy. Clifton was a spy. So they know everything know. The English patient stops breathing. He?s dead.
Descriptions of contents
The English patient, Katherine and Hana are the main persons.
Katherine is smart and wants a change in her life. She loves words. I think I?m in a lot of things the same as Katherine and I like her, because she?s very honest and she can do everyting with words.
The English patient is not human to everybody and he can?t change. I think he is a man in every way. He?s strange and women can?t understand his feelings. Though the book I like his love for Katherine. He loves her so much that he would own her.
Hana is very sweet and she?s broken of sadness. She can listen very well and she?s patient. I don?t know what to think of her. She?s nice, but I don?t think the book learned me who she is, so I don?t know her well.
Other persons are Kip and Caravaggio. Kip is important in the book, but I think he is not important for the story, so that?s why i call him an ?other? person.
Background
The place is the desert in Africa and Italy, where the ruin is. I think the place isn?t important for the story, because a war can be everywhere. Othersides the place is important, because the war was there and the book gives you a lot of information about that war.
The time is between 1936 and 1945 or 1946. For the war it is important, but the story can happen every day.
Theme
I don?t know what the theme is. Maybe the theme is war, because that?s something what the whole story is about. But maybe it?s love in the war, because the English patient and Hana love someone in the war. Maybe it?s relationships, because the relationships between Katherine and Alm?sy and between the English patient and the others are important?
When I know the theme I can say how the autor has worked out the theme.
Title
The title means the man where this book is about and the autor has lighted him from different sides.
Personal Opinion
The way of writing of the book is very strange, and that makes the book very hard to read. But the story of the English patient is very nice to read. The other things seems to be unimportant to me, but maybe that seems because I?ve seen the film. I don?t like reading a book after I?ve seen the film so that makes the book less nice.
Othersides was the book nicer because I?ve seen the film, because I could understand the most of the happenings.
The way of writing was strange, because there are little pieces of books in the story and it?s hard to know if you?re in the past or if you?re reading ?now?.
I think when I could better speak and read the English language, or when I read the book in dutch that I like the book more. The book is rather nice I think.
Pages: 307
Genre: war novel, love story
Summary
Hana is twenty years old and she has lost her father. She nursed the patients of the war. She thinks that everybody who she loves dies.
There is a completly burried man who stand up alive out of a burning machine. His face is unregonaisble and he doesn?t know who he is, he only knows that he is an English man, so everybody calls him the English patient.
Hana nurses him in an old ruin, Villa san Girolmo. She reads him from every book, also from his book Herodotus with his notes and cuttings in it. Hana washed him months before he talked to her.
David Caravavaggio comes also to live with them. He was a good friend of Hana?s father and was he was a thief in the war.
His hands are bandaged because the thumbs are cut away.
One day Hana is crying because she loves the English patient. Caravaggio says that she adores him and that he is a ghost. Then Hana wants him to go away.
When Hana plays the old piano in the lybery, two sappers come and look for a mine. One of them, Kirpal Singh, sets up a tent in the garden of the ruin. His short name is Kip and is 26 years old. The other sapper Hardy stays elsewhere. Kip risks his life for saving other people.
Kip often dismantles mines and bombs. Hana and he love eachother and they have a relationship.
This is the story of the English patient:
The English patient is a mapmaker in the desert. He hates nations. He travalls with Madox, Bernann, Casparius and others of the mapmakers.
One day in 1936 he meet Geoffroy Clinton. This man got married the day after this meeting and comes two weeks later with his wife Katherine to Cairo, where the mapmakers are. Clifton is their pilot, messenger and reconnaissance. On that moment the English patient is working on his own book:Recentes Explorations dans le desert Lybique.
As he hears Katherine reciting a poetry he falls in love with a voice and he begins to love poetry. He is fifteen years older.
Katherine and he are studying eachother. She wants to know from him that if she gave her life to him, would he drop it then? He doesn?t answer.
Katherine dreams of him.
After they maked love, he wants to know what she hates the most. She anwers ?a lie? and he answers that he hate ownership.
They see eachother a lot, till she says that they can?t anymore, because she?s afraid that Clifton will go mad. She still loves her husband very much and gave remarks of their marriage which he ignores.
He asks himself what their relationship had been; a betroyed of those around them or the desire of another life.
Three years later they are together again. In that three years Madox had killed himself.
Katherines husband has gone mad and kills himself and his wife by crashing his plane. The English patient was with the crash; he saw them crashing.
But Katherine isn?t dead. The English patient pulls the body free and carries her to the Cave of the Swimmers. He is going for help and walks seventy miles. He walks as fast as a camel. After three days he comes in El Taj, but the English don?t believe him. They take him away with a jeep.
He comes back with Katherine and it?s almost too late. There is a breath of dead in her. When Katherine is dead he takes her into the desert where she became part of.
Caravaggio is listening to him, while he gaves him more and more morphine. He thinks that the English patient is the spy Alm?sy. The English patient is Alm?sy, but he isn?t a spy. Clifton was a spy. So they know everything know. The English patient stops breathing. He?s dead.
Descriptions of contents
The English patient, Katherine and Hana are the main persons.
Katherine is smart and wants a change in her life. She loves words. I think I?m in a lot of things the same as Katherine and I like her, because she?s very honest and she can do everyting with words.
The English patient is not human to everybody and he can?t change. I think he is a man in every way. He?s strange and women can?t understand his feelings. Though the book I like his love for Katherine. He loves her so much that he would own her.
Hana is very sweet and she?s broken of sadness. She can listen very well and she?s patient. I don?t know what to think of her. She?s nice, but I don?t think the book learned me who she is, so I don?t know her well.
Other persons are Kip and Caravaggio. Kip is important in the book, but I think he is not important for the story, so that?s why i call him an ?other? person.
Background
The place is the desert in Africa and Italy, where the ruin is. I think the place isn?t important for the story, because a war can be everywhere. Othersides the place is important, because the war was there and the book gives you a lot of information about that war.
The time is between 1936 and 1945 or 1946. For the war it is important, but the story can happen every day.
Theme
I don?t know what the theme is. Maybe the theme is war, because that?s something what the whole story is about. But maybe it?s love in the war, because the English patient and Hana love someone in the war. Maybe it?s relationships, because the relationships between Katherine and Alm?sy and between the English patient and the others are important?
When I know the theme I can say how the autor has worked out the theme.
Title
The title means the man where this book is about and the autor has lighted him from different sides.
Personal Opinion
The way of writing of the book is very strange, and that makes the book very hard to read. But the story of the English patient is very nice to read. The other things seems to be unimportant to me, but maybe that seems because I?ve seen the film. I don?t like reading a book after I?ve seen the film so that makes the book less nice.
Othersides was the book nicer because I?ve seen the film, because I could understand the most of the happenings.
The way of writing was strange, because there are little pieces of books in the story and it?s hard to know if you?re in the past or if you?re reading ?now?.
I think when I could better speak and read the English language, or when I read the book in dutch that I like the book more. The book is rather nice I think.
Boek informatie
- The English Patient
- Philip Michael Ondaatje
- 0679745203
- Nederlands
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